Article Roundup for 01.02.2015

Sorry, I took last week off and there are a lot of links this week. Enjoy!

1. JavaScript Comes of Age
2. PHP Tips, Resources and Best Practices for 2015
3. [E2] A showcase of beautiful landing pages
4. The Pros and Cons of Working with Freelancers
5. Things You Should Separate From Your Theme
6. A new Microsoft browser?
   More on the supposed new browser. If it runs trident, that doesn’t mean much for web devs.
7. The 12 most popular web performance posts of 2014
   I <3 performance.
8. A Good Front-End Architecture
   These tend to apply more to web apps and larger websites IMO, but still some great takeaways no matter what your project might be.
9. 10 Web Predictions for 2014: The Results!
10. Top Ten Signs You're a Designer
    So true.
11. BEM Mixins
    What a great idea!
12. Material Shadows Mixin
13. Technology resolutions for 2015
14. Powered by Movable Type
    Poor MT. Looks like there are still a few people using it.
15. Average Page Weight Increases 15% in 2014
    Wah wah
16. How To Migrate To HTTPS – Google Docs
17. Well, That Escalated Quickly
    A response to his “Inadvertent Algorithmic Cruelty” post.
18. 2015 Trends and Predictions for Web Design
19. iOS 2014: A Year in Review
20. Common WordPress Issues and How to Fix Them
21. Docker and Phoenix: How to Make Your Continuous Integration More Awesome
22. Cohesive UX
23. How to use video to effectively drive online sales
24. Introducing Sass-Compatibility
25. Adding Functions to Your WordPress Theme Framework
26. Sliding Header Layout
27. Has flat design gone too far?
    Just like every other trend; probably.
28. Digital Project Manager Tools | Anders Andersen
29. Fifty Actions of WordPress – Series Finale
30. Getting Started with Gulp
    The alternative to Grunt.js.
31. Introduction to Creating Your First WordPress Widget
32. UX How-To with Luke Wroblewski – YouTube
    ICYMI: All the UX videos LukeW did this year.
33. Chris Wright – Experiment: Flexbox Adventures
34. Naming Things ◆ 24 ways
35. Retake performance
36. Microsoft reportedly working on brand new web browser for Windows 10
37. Meet for Learning ◆ 24 ways
38. No More var_dump – Introducing Symfony VarDumper!
    var_dump is the console.log() of php. Very useful.
39. Points of Confusion in Agile
40. The Top UX Trends of 2014