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What? Why Am I Eating Off An Antique Shed Wall?

We’ve been working really hard at the SitePoint offices – and no, we’re not just saying it because our boss also reads this newsletter – we really have been! You can check out what we’ve been up to below.

BUT… that doesn’t mean we didn’t have time to look up, laugh at and debate some cool stuff we found on the internets…

Here’s a few of the shiny internet things that caught our eye recently:

We also took a moment to formally farewell Google+, a social media platform none of us used, but it still seems sad to see it being dismantled.

New Release Books

Another new release from our friends at Packt. Android Programming for Beginners will take you through all the Java and Android skills you need to start making powerful mobile apps with practicable and actionable steps.

This book is a practical, project-based guide to help you build and control your IoT projects. Leverage the full potential of IoT with the combination of Raspberry Pi 3 and Python.

Build complex, Python-based apps with IoT. Work on various IoT projects and understand the basics of electronics.

Just a Friendly PSA

We're currently still offering a 7 Day Free Trial of SitePoint Premium. So if you've been reading about all this good stuff we're adding into our library and want to go check it out for yourself, you now can!

New Blog Posts!

Here's our beginners guide to JavaScript Web Workers. What it is, why it's good and how you can use it.

A few handy tools for building websites and pages (7 in fact).

And our friend Jodie Moule reflects on her journey to launching her hugely successful Cook app in 2013 and how she leveraged user research to do it.

Community Learning

And finally, over at the SitePoint Community, there's a pretty interesting discussion happening right now about what really makes a site rank. We'd love to hear from you if you've got some views on the topic.

- SitePoint Team