Most days, your goal as a developer is to design, develop and program awesome software. However, part of the job is also finding new clients, and you don't want to be caught off guard by unexpected legal documents that come up while you're establishing new clients. The most common legal document you will be asked to sign when working on a website or app is a non-disclosure agreement (NDA). If you're not sure whether to sign an NDA as a developer, this article will guide you to make an educated decision.The post Non-Disclosure Agreements For Developers: What To Know Before You Sign appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

The last couple of years we have been leaning more toward flat style; and 2016 is no exception. Whether we craft a website design or interface for a mobile application, as a rule, we stop our choice on clean, intuitive layouts, harmonious and moderate color schemes, a generous amount of whitespace, and plain graphics. However,...

How should you photograph the people you encounter when visiting a foreign country? Is there some winning technique? How about special rules of etiquette? Depending where you are, there may... The post Putting Exuberance into Your Travel Photographs appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Fig 1. A chap performing the Detroit JITUnless you have been living under a rock, or are from the past (in which case, welcome), you will be aware that a JIT is coming to PHP 8: The vote ended, quietly, today, with a vast majority in favour of merging into PHP 8, so, it's official.Throw some crazy s...

This week's Designer News - No 610 - includes The Story Behind TryShape (a Showcase for the CSS clip-path Property), RapidSketch, Tailwind Mobile UI Components, Can We Have Custom Media Queries, Please?, Accordion UI Design, Post Poly Application for 3D Renders, Dopefolio and so much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 610 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

If you're looking to ignite or rediscover your love for film photography, we've got you covered! Here are the best film cameras in 2021. The post The Best Film Cameras in 2021 first appeared on JUST(TM) Creative.

This week's Designer News (N.461) includes Concise Media Queries with CSS Grid, Sign Up vs. Signup, Designing Accessible Content, Headless WordPress, Simplify Styling with Functional CSS, The Twenty Nineteen Theme, Free Latu Admin Dashboard and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 461 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Chances are good you’re wasting time at work. A 2014 study by CareerBuilder found smartphone usage, browsing the Internet, using social media, and responding to email were all major factors in decreasing employee productivity. Nearly 70 percent of employees waste at least some time at work daily, with nearly a third wasting at least an hour a day on non-work-related tasks, according to a 2014 survey by Salary.com. For Web developers with looming deadlines, intelligent tech tools can help them avoid late nights and finish useful products that work better the first time around. From workflow management to improved communication with various team members across projects, here are five tools Web developers can use to work more efficiently. 1. Cloud Storage Forget having to wade through multiple email chains to retrieve the information you need to complete a project. Cloud storage helps you organize everything you’re working on in an elegant dashboard, allowing you to communicate with team members about the details and access materials from desktop, smartphone, and tablet devices. If you’ve ever lost a thumb drive containing what you were working on and know the pain of having to start from scratch, you know how essential backup is, […]* You might also be interested in the following articlesActive Collab: Project Management Made SimpleAssembla: Manage Web Development Projects Easily24+ Best Apps for Graphic Design FreelancersStack: New Kanban Boards Task- and Projectmanager by BugherdLightCMS: A Hosted Solution For Creating WebsitesPantheon: The Next Dimension of WordPress and Drupal Hosting and…

A few months ago, Jason Grigsby's post about autocompletion in forms made the rounds. I loved the idea of allowing users to fill in their credit card details by taking a picture of their card. What I didn't love was learning all of the possible values for autofill by heart. I'm getting lazy in my old age. Lately, I've gotten spoiled from using an editor that does intelligent autocompletion for me, something that in the past only massive complex IDEs offered. Opening my editor of choice, I created an input element and added an autocomplete attribute, only to find that the code completion offered me the state of on or off. Disappointing.The post I Contributed To An Open-Source Editor, And So Can You appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

As a creative freelancer, I’ve seen a peculiar trend among other freelancers more times than I’d like to recount. I’m going to bring some attention to it, and hopefully persuade... The post Promoting Your Freelance Services the Right Way appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.