As far as team & task management goes, Asana is one of the greats. Most people at least know about Asana or have used it in a professional environment.

Now there’s a great free Mac application named threedots that connects right into Asana. It’s meant to be native Asana on your Mac desktop.

The application is not only free and easy to use, it’s also completely open sourced for developers to check out.

Just visit the official threedots repo on GitHub to download a copy of the source code.

While there are other applications out there, this one seems to be easy enough to manage since it runs the web view natively. Basically the application loads Asana in a web view in the app, so it runs like a browser yet separately from the browser.

If you want to give it a shot just visit the threedots webpage and download the install file. It’s completely free so if it doesn’t suit your needs then you really don’t have much to lose.

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Once you’ve launched a new startup there’s always a long delay to find users. Unless you’re well-connected or have a marketing budget, the first few months will be an uphill battle.

Startup Checklist is a free web application made to help you manage your free avenues for marketing.

Each new startup founder should check out this site and consider some of the benefits. The checklist is ordered by websites with the highest value percentage as rated by users.

Since it’s just a typical webapp, anonymous viewing won’t do you much good in the long run. Consider signing up for a free account to keep track of which marketing areas you’ve already exhausted & which are still open for testing.

Content areas are broken down by categories like social media, startup directories, and e-mail.

Take a peek at the Startup Checklist homepage to see if any of these resources could prove useful. At the very least it’s still a great site to gather ideas for an initial marketing plan.

Anyone who wants to stay up-to-date with any new features can always follow the official Twitter account @ChecklistCo.

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Most PHP CMS’ on the market run a traditional database engine – commonly MySQL. But in recent years PHP developers have been mixing it up to move around towards different paths, one of which is a flat file database system.

Grav CMS is one such example. Grav is completely open source and runs on top of PHP. It uses a variety of great technologies like:

• Twig Templating: for powerful control of the user interface
• Markdown: for easy content creation
• YAML: for simple configuration
• Parsedown: for fast Markdown and Mardown Extra support
• Doctrine Cache: layer for performance
• Pimple Dependency Injection Container: for extensibility and maintainability
• Symfony Event Dispacher: for plugin event handling
• Symfony Console: for CLI interface
• Gregwar Image Library: for dynamic image manipulation

If you already know a lot about PHP then Grav could be worth learning. It’s one of the more exotic choices, but it’s also frequently updated with careful attention to detail.

Visit the Grav GitHub repo to find install documentation & learn more about the system.

You can also learn a lot from the Grav features page and the online Grav learning center.

While currently on version 0.9, Grav is one of the more stable and interesting PHP CMS’ on the market. If you’re curious then download a copy and test it out whenever you have some time.

Interested users can also check out the Grav GitHub page or follow the official Twitter account @getgrav.

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2015 continues to be a bumper year for type design, there have been literally hundreds of quality free fonts released so far this year with fresh designs being released every week.

Brush lettering continues to be popular, there’s a strong vintage influence, and happily stencil-inspired designs are making a comeback.

Today, we’ve compiled a list of the 101 best free fonts that have been released, or received a major update, in the third quarter of 2015. Highlights include the charming Tombow, the striking Dapurandes, and the energetic Plume. You’ll find display type, info type, body type; some experimental typefaces are included, as well as some really solid workhorses.

Browse through, try them out, and if you use them in a project, let us know!

Kilauea

Neaments

Dapurandes

Ozneo

Plume

DitaSweet

Blacksmith

Parabola

Genome

Adam.CG

Davy Crockett

Sea-Font

Dreamers Brush

Tesla

Gabo

Quito

Tagg Shop

Tempete

Atlantico

Mefestico

Twitchy

Not Posterman

Ainsley Display

Arcadia

Gant

Glacial Indifference

Mightype

Zelda

(Personal use only)

Walk On

Relancer

Rex

Bonn

Michelle

Marsh Stencil

JB Berlin

Soda Fountain

Atzur

Foxhole Hand Drawn

Daruma

Relic

Hack

Canisparane

Bavro

Chirk

Eleventh Square

Arctic

Vanderful

Tombow

Chivo

Athene

Hot Mess

Eutopia

Bernier

Turnstyle

Cast Iron

Fewt

Shihan

Ikra

Measure

Brush

Sirota

Regothic

One Way

Cornerstone

Slyd

Lumberman

Talisman

Crox

(Personal use only)

Ahamono Monospaced

Kiklo

HK Grotesk

HK Super Round

Amicale Typeface Regular

Devious

Cone Wedge

Stilu

XXII Geom Regular

Simple

Mia Monospace

Debby

Hanken Round

Geo Modern

Grothika

HK Explorer Regular

Theremin

Melo

Hidden Cinema

Queen

Julep

Bat/Murcielago

Steamafide

Asap

Belga

Salventius Hand

(Personal use only)

Arte

Luna

Mezzana

(Personal use only)

Beyno

Mayhem

Pelmeshka

Barbaro

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iOS prototyping encompasses the entire world of iPhone & iPad development. Typical desktop software includes the likes of Illustrator of Sketch – but now there’s AppStarter as an alternative.

The benefits of AppStarter is that you’ll be able to create native iOS applications on top of their system. You can grab the native iOS app for local testing on an iOS device.

Here’s a brief rundown copied from the AppStarter website:

“Easily create native iOS apps using common web technologies like XML, CSS and JavaScript. We are not like any other mobile development platform, your app will be 100% native and you can start developing right now, online, for free.”

Basically everything runs through general technologies like JavaScript for prototyping. Yet all of your prototypes are handled and compiled like native applications so you get to see how they really function on a device.

I recommend skimming through the AppStarter documentation for more info.

You can alternatively dive in head-first by signing up for a free account and testing the waters on a new project.

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The Washington State Convention Center is home to a two-day digitally-focused conference known as the Seattle Interactive Conference.

This event draws attention from developers, developers, and everyone who works & builds technology. It’s one of the largest events on this topic located in the pacific northwest, and in 2015 it’s coming to Seattle for two days of fun and learning.

November 3rd and 4th will prove to be incredibly busy yet exciting days for SIC attendees.

Speakers include David Shing rom AOL, Jonathon Colman from Facebook, Fontaine Foxworth from Google among many others. Check out the full speakers list to get a better idea of topics and names you might recognize.

If you’re interested in attending you should also check out the confirmed sessions as they’ll appear in the schedule. While there are lots of presentations, there are just as many breaks for snacks & chatting with others at the event.

Those who are interested should consider purchasing a ticket before they all run out.

But if you can’t make it you can always follow along the festivities on the official Facebook page or via Twitter @seattleinteract.

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WordPress users cannot get enough of free themes. Fortunately enough, you can find great and completely free themes provided through WordPress.org for your new blog layout. The scope of features is mostly more than sufficient and allows you to work comfortably. So we went out to search great themes once again and came up with ten immaculate free themes for your next relaunch. As always, these themes are responsive and work on any resolution.

1 – Allegiant

Allegiant is a lovingly designed theme for multiple different areas of application. Using it, you can create business websites, portfolios or personal blogs. It offers a slider for the homepage, highlighted areas, portfolios and team member pages as well as many more features.

• Created by: cpothemes
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Allegiant Demo

2 – News Maxx Lite

News Maxx Lite is a magazine and news theme, but it can also be used to power a personal blog. Thanks to the KopaTheme Layout Manager the appearance can easily be adjusted to your liking.

• Created by: KopaTheme
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: News Maxx Lite Demo

3 – Himalayas

Himalayas is a modern one pager theme, meaning that everything is presented on one large page. By clicking on a menu item, you can make the theme scroll down (or up again) to the correspondent spot on the page. This theme could be perfect for small to medium-sized businesses and private users alike.

• Created by: ThemeGrill
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Himalayas Theme Demo

4 – SKT Hotel Lite

SKT Hotel Lite is a theme specially made for hotels, restaurants, cafés and all other similar business areas. It offers an appealingly animated homepage with a big slider and the option to add other elements, such as individual colours or backgrounds, manually.

• Created by: SKTThemes
• License: Free for personal or commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: SKT Hotel Lite Demo

5 – Libretto

The Libretto theme by Automattic, the company that created WordPress, is a classic and lovingly designed theme for a personal blog. Whenever a theme is made by the creators of the CMS itself, promises are that there will be a proper usage of the WordPress possibilities and a stable code. Libretto offers custom colours and backgrounds as well as an appealing highlighting of the images in a photo post.

• Created by: Automattic
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Libretto Demo

6 – Merlin

Magazine themes are a rare sight in the free theme area of WordPress as they take a lot of effort to be developed. ThemeZee was successful at making an appealing magazine and news theme that comes with a slider, a different homepage and a widget area in the header. Colours and backgrounds are also adjustable.

• Created by: ThemeZee
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Merlin Demo

7 – Plain Blog

Plain Blog is – as the name already tells – a simple blog theme. Its design is appealing and reduced to the essentials. It comes with integrated share buttons for the most important social networks like Facebook, Twitter and LinkedIn.

• Created by: NavThemes
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Plain Blog Demo

8 – Matraman Lite

Matraman Lite is a modern blog theme that displays the articles on the landing page in a grid. The header and the background can be adjusted to the users needs.

• Created by: themesawesome
• License Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Matraman Demo

9 – Giornalismo

Giornalismo is a news and magazine theme designed to show as much information as possible right on the landing page. The position of the sidebar can be adjusted. There are also two different sidebars to choose from or to use in conjunction.

• Created by: Jacob Martella
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Giornalismo Demo

10 – Travel Stories

Travel Stories is the right theme for travel reports, photo presentations and all other areas that work with large, appealing images.

• Created by: bestwebsoft
• License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License
• Prepared for translation: Yes
• Demo: Travel Stories Demo

Conclusion

My favourite themes of this month are definitely Merlin Magazine and Libretto. I really like Libretto’s vintage style while still keeping a very unique touch to it. Which theme is your favourite this month?

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You’ve probably heard about ECMAScript 6 (or ES6) already. It’s the next version of JavaScript, and it has some great new features. The features have varying degrees of complexity and are useful in both simple scripts and complex applications. In this article, we’ll discuss a hand-picked selection of ES6 features that you can use in your everyday JavaScript coding.

Please note that support for these new ES6 features is well underway in modern browsers, although support varies. If you need to support old versions of browsers that lack many ES6 features, I’ll touch on solutions that might help you start using ES6 today.

The post ECMAScript 6 (ES6): What’s New In The Next Version Of JavaScript appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Most developers say that Apple’s Swift dev documentation is by far the best place to learn. For the most part they’re right. But what about people who have a tough time getting started in the field with very little knowledge of Apple’s development practices?

Hacking with Swift is a digital course for learning how to build iOS apps with the Swift programming language.

Each course begins with a general intro and covers the major factors at play. You’ll learn all the relevant tools for running with Swift 2 and iOS 9.

The tutorials online are completely free and easy to read through.

Best of all you’ll actually be building real world projects. This applicable knowledgebase will force you to learn how to design iOS apps from the ground-up. No more confusion over structures, classes, functions, or how to maintain a solid codebase.

To get started just visit Hacking with Swift and pick your lesson. You can learn everything from simle WebUIViews to SpriteKit games and so much more.

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The incredibly myriad of developers conferences can leave anyone gasping for air. How do you know what to attend and what’s worth the money?

Well when it comes to frontend development and Sass/CSS there’s no better place to be than dotCSS. It happens to be one of the largest CSS conferences in Europe with a direct focus on CSS code.

Altough it’s only a single-day event there will be lots of activities and talks handled on this one day.

dotCSS 2015 will run on December 4th, so there’s still plenty of time to get your tickets.

On December 5th there will be an optional workshop day that costs extra. The workshops focus on all kinds of different CSS tips/tricks/technologies with experts showing you how to write code and build it properly.

To learn more visit the dotCSS FAQ page. Social media users can alternatively check out the event Facebook page or follow the official Twitter account @dotCSS.

Read More at dotCSS Conference runs in Paris, France on December 4th