Hey, it's Spring! Wishing you a bright and warm season!
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Monday, January 12, 2015
Don't you just love these bright, bold colors?
Bright, bold colors: Google’s Material Design introduces an inspiring and vibrant color palette.
A couple of months ago, Google started rolling out its new Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system and one of the most prominent changes in the Lollipop release is a redesigned user interface built around the “Material design”.
Here’s Google’s definition of Material design: “a visual language for users that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation and possibility of technology and science”.
Google has left behind the world of skeuomorphic design and the result is something that looks more eye-catching.
Let's see some colors:
Amber (#FFC107)
#FFF8E1
#FFECB3
#FFE082
#FFD54F
#FFCA28
#FFC107
#FFB300
#FFA000
#FF8F00
#FF6F00
#FFE57F
#FFD740
#FFC400
#FFAB00
A couple of months ago, Google started rolling out its new Android 5.0 Lollipop operating system and one of the most prominent changes in the Lollipop release is a redesigned user interface built around the “Material design”.
Here’s Google’s definition of Material design: “a visual language for users that synthesizes the classic principles of good design with the innovation and possibility of technology and science”.
Google has left behind the world of skeuomorphic design and the result is something that looks more eye-catching.
Amber (#FFC107)
#FFF8E1
#FFECB3
#FFE082
#FFD54F
#FFCA28
#FFC107
#FFB300
#FFA000
#FF8F00
#FF6F00
#FFE57F
#FFD740
#FFC400
#FFAB00
Saturday, January 10, 2015
There are good times for you if you have these skills!
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining? Middleware and Integration Software?
There are good times for you if you have these skills!
"Statistical analysis and data
mining" topped LinkedIn's list of the 25 Hottest Skills That Got
People Hired in 2014, moving up from number 5 in 2013.
"We live in an increasingly data driven world, and businesses are
aggressively hiring experts in data storage, retrieval, and analysis.
Across the globe, statistics and data analysis skills were highly
valued" Sohan Murthy, research
consultant at LinkedIn, wrote in a blog post.
Glassdoor reports a median salary of $118,709 for a data scientist
and $64,537 for a programmer.
If you have any involvement in data analytics and want to develop your
career, is worth learning some of the most commonly used tools:
- SQL/RDB;
- R and Python;
- Excel;
- SAS and SPSS;
-Hadoop.
There are lots of roles that involve working with analytics and big data,
but some of the most common titles are:
- Data Analyst - Common skills that you will be asked for include
SQL, R, SAS and Excel, and often Hadoop.
- Data Scientist - As well as the analytics skills that an analyst
will be expected to have, data scientists will be expected to have programming
skills (Java or Python).
In 2014, for the second year, O'Reilly Media conducted an anonymous survey
to expose the tools successful data analysts and engineers use, and how those
tool choices might relate to their salary.
By a considerable margin, the most broadly-used software was SQL , which
was selected by 71% of respondents.
R and Python were the next most widely-used tools — they were selected by
43% and 41% of survey-takers, respectively.
"R and Python are likely popular because they are easily accessible
and effective open source tools for analysis",the authors of the report
note.
Moreover, statistics has been working on collecting and analyzing data even
before computers existed. Whatever technological revolutions that may occur,
statistics will remain relevant because if we can measure something, we improve
it.
Related skills were also ranked highly:
6. Business Intelligence
10. Perl/Python/Ruby
11. Data Engineering and Data Warehousing
The rest of the LinkedIn's list was populated by tech skills.
Hottest Skills of 2014 on LinkedIn:
1. Statistical analysis and data mining
2. Middleware and integration software
3. Storage systems and management
4. Network and information security
5. SEO/SEM Marketing
6. Business intelligence
7. Mobile development
8. Web architecture and development framework
9. Algorithm design
10. Perl/Python/Ruby
Last year, the top 2013 LinkedIn skill was Social Media Marketing, with
Statistical Analysis and Data Mining ranked at 5.
Thursday, January 8, 2015
JavaScript is not an “ugly duckling” anymore!
I always find
it fascinating to read about trends in the use of programming languages.Based on a formula assessing Internet searches on languages, the Tiobe Index named JavaScript its Language of the Year for 2014.
“After all these years, JavaScript has finally
become TIOBE's language of the year. It was a close finish. Swift and R
appeared to be the main candidates for the title but due to a deep fall of
Objective-C this month, a lot of other languages took advantage of this and
surpassed these two candidates at the last moment.” Tiobe said.
TIOBE
programming index is “a measure of popularity of programming languages,
calculated from number of search engine results for queries containing the name
of the language” (TIOBE Programming Community Index Definition"). TIOBE
takes into account only Turing complete languages, so some popular languages
like HTML or SQL are not present in ranking.
JavaScript
has won the award because it had an increase of roughly 1.70 percent of share.
"The JavaScript programming language has a long history and is always
considered as the 'ugly duckling' from a language design point of view.
Nevertheless, JavaScript has become the standard browser language through the
years," Tiobe said.
So, is JavaScript the Language of the Future?
Despite
being on the 10th ranked programming language in the latest Tiobe Index,
JavaScript is the dominant programming language choice for startups (see the
growing use of JavaScript on GitHub in recent years – now is the top language.
JavaScript
is one of the preferred ways of developing applications for Windows 8's new UI.
They say being
able to use the same language on the front end and the back end makes life
easier for development teams.
The PyPL (Popularity of Programming Language) index, which analyzes Google searches on
language tutorials (the more a specific language tutorial is searched, the more
popular the language is assumed to be), named Swift its Language of the Year
for 2014.
Swift had a
rating of 3 percent for 2014 and ranked ninth on PyPL's index for the month,
jumping past two long-established languages: Ruby and Visual Basic.
In the
January PyPL index, Java was tops, with a 25.8 percent share, followed by PHP
(12.4 percent), Python (11.8 percent), C# (9.9 percent), and C++ (8.7 percent).
Top 10 were
C (8.2 percent), JavaScript (7.4 percent), Objective-C (6.7 percent), Swift
(3.1 percent), Ruby (2.7 percent), and Visual Basic (2.1 percent).
Source: https://sites.google.com/site/pydatalog/pypl/PyPL-PopularitY-of-Programming-Language
Sunday, April 6, 2014
Best Google Fonts For Flat Design
Why Google Web Fonts?
Flat design focuses on typography, colors, simple shapes to emphasize clarity and usability. Because it often employs bright color schemes, weights and clean lines are important when it comes to lettering.
Here is the list of typefaces that are fit with Flat design most:
1. Droid Sans
Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson.
Droid Sans is a sans serif typeface with open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance and was optimized for user interfaces.
Droid is a font family first released in 2007 and created by Ascender Corporation. The fonts are intended for use on the small screens of mobile handsets and were designed by Steve Matteson.
Droid Sans is a sans serif typeface with open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance and was optimized for user interfaces.
2. Oxygen
The basic concept for Oxygen Font was to design a clear, legible, sans serif, that would be rendered with Freetype on Linux-based devices.
Oxygen is a Unicode typeface family that supports languages that use the Latin script and its variants..
3. Roboto
Roboto is also a sans-serif typeface family. Google describes the font as "modern, yet approachable", with "a dual nature". The family includes regular and oblique styles of Thin, Light, Regular, Medium, Bold, Black, and Condensed widths.
4. Open Sans
Open Sans is a clean and modern sans-serif typeface, designed by Steve Matteson.
Since its release in 2010, Open Sans quickly became the preferred typeface by many designers, as it was a fantastic substitute for Helvetica. According to Google, it was developed with an "upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance" and is "optimized for legibility across print, web, and mobile interfaces."
Its design is almost identical to that of Droid Sans, with the exception of wider characters and the inclusion of italic variants.
Open Sans is a clean and modern sans-serif typeface, designed by Steve Matteson.
Since its release in 2010, Open Sans quickly became the preferred typeface by many designers, as it was a fantastic substitute for Helvetica. According to Google, it was developed with an "upright stress, open forms and a neutral, yet friendly appearance" and is "optimized for legibility across print, web, and mobile interfaces."
Its design is almost identical to that of Droid Sans, with the exception of wider characters and the inclusion of italic variants.
Open Sans is available in a large number of variants. There are 5 variants for weight (300 Light, 400 Normal, Semi-Bold 600, Bold 700 and Extra Bold 800) and each one has an italic version.
5. Lato
“Lato,” meaning “Summer” in Polish, is a sans serif typeface family, developed in summer 2010 and released in December 2010 under SIL Open Font License, with five weights: 100, 300, 400, 700, 900 and corresponding italics.
The semi-rounded letters give Lato a strong yet friendly tone, allowing for flexibility of use in either body text or headlines. “Male and female, serious but friendly” says Łukasz Dziedzic, the designer of Lato.
“Lato,” meaning “Summer” in Polish, is a sans serif typeface family, developed in summer 2010 and released in December 2010 under SIL Open Font License, with five weights: 100, 300, 400, 700, 900 and corresponding italics.
The semi-rounded letters give Lato a strong yet friendly tone, allowing for flexibility of use in either body text or headlines. “Male and female, serious but friendly” says Łukasz Dziedzic, the designer of Lato.
In 2013 – 2014, the family was greatly extended. The Lato 2.0 family now supports 100+ Latin-based languages, 50+ Cyrillic-based languages as well as Greek and IPA phonetics.
6. Source Sans Pro
Source Sans Pro, Adobe's first open source typeface family, was designed by Paul D. Hunt. It is a sans serif typeface intended to work well in user interfaces.
Source Sans Pro is a sans serif font designed with a generous width. It is currently available in six weights, from ExtraLight to Black, in upright and italic styles. The typeface has wide language support for Latin script.
Source Sans Pro, Adobe's first open source typeface family, was designed by Paul D. Hunt. It is a sans serif typeface intended to work well in user interfaces.
Source Sans Pro is a sans serif font designed with a generous width. It is currently available in six weights, from ExtraLight to Black, in upright and italic styles. The typeface has wide language support for Latin script.
7. Raleway
Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed by Matt McInerney in a single thin weight.
8. Montserrat
Raleway is an elegant sans-serif typeface, designed by Matt McInerney in a single thin weight.
8. Montserrat
Montserrat font is sans serif font which is designed by Julieta Ulanovsky. Montserrat font family has 2 weights.
9. Quicksand
This is a display sans serif.
10. PT Sans
This is a display sans serif.
10. PT Sans
PT Sans is based on Russian sans serif types of the second part of the 20th century, but at the same time has distinctive features of contemporary humanistic designs. The family consists of 8 styles: 4 basic styles, 2 captions styles for small sizes, and 2 narrows styles for economic type setting.
11. Libre Baskerville
Libre Baskerville is a web font optimized for body text.
12. Quattrocento Sans
Quattrocento Sans is a Classic, Elegant and Sober typeface.
13. Josefin Slab
Josefin Slab is one of the thinnest slab fonts and have an elegant, upscale look and feel.
Josefin Slab is one of the thinnest slab fonts and have an elegant, upscale look and feel.
14. Philosopher
This font is universal: It can be used in logos, headlines, and for text.
This font is universal: It can be used in logos, headlines, and for text.
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