The design handoff is a critical part of any project. For many designers and engineers, the design handoff is a stressful experience. If either team misses something, it could result in product defects and delays. While it’s primarily the responsibility of the UX team to produce prototypes, assets, and documentation, the design handoff process is The post Design Handoff - Creating a Better Experience for Designers and Developers appeared first on Studio by UXPin.

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Sameer Borate has a new post to his site sharing a method for converting a CSV to an Excel document using PHP. While you can open a CSV file with Excel correctly, using this method (and library) allows for more control over the end result. During a recent data conversion project I needed to convert around 250 CSV files to Excel (xls) format. As this was a PHP project I decided to write a small PHP script using the PhpSpreadsheet library. He then walks through the installation (via Composer) and use of the library to take in a simple CSV of countries and write it out as a .xls file in a single worksheet. He also includes a modification of the script that can be run from the command line, taking in arguments for the source file and the destination.

Over the last few years, our team at Firefox has been working on new CSS tools that address both cutting-edge techniques and age-old frustrations. We're the Layout Tools team, a subset of Firefox Developer Tools, and our quest is to improve the modern web design workflow. The web has seen an incredible evolution in the last decade: new HTML/CSS features, browser improvements, and design techniques. Our team is devoted to building tools that match that innovation so that designers and developers can harness more of the efficiency and creativity that's now possible.

This article talks about why aligning your team around microservices is important, the challenges of doing so, and how to achieve the alignment. What is Microservices? Microservices architecture, a variant of service-oriented architecture, has become immensely popular over the past few years due to its ability to provide greater agility, improved performance, and better scalability. […] The post How to Align Your Team Around Microservices appeared first on Developer.com.

Rob Allen has posted a quick tutorial to his site showing how to user Composer in a PHP project on OpenWhisk. OpenWhisk is Apache's serverless cloud platform that's easy to scale and relatively easy to use. This is the latest in a series of posts from Rob covering its use in PHP projects. Every PHP project I write has dependencies on components from Packagist and my Serverless OpenWhisk PHP projects are no different. It turns out that adding Composer dependencies is trivial. He uses a simple action that coverts a number to the matching string, showing the yaml configuration changes and code to include to define the action. The action makes use of the NFNumberToWord package which is then added via Composer. He deploys the action and calls it directly, showing the result to be the correct string for the number "123". He also mentions an archive file (zip) that the serverless functionality creates containing all of the files related to the project. He shows the configuration option you can use to split these by action, making it easier to create a more modular system.

We take a look at what makes web design resilient (in one designer's view, anyway) and discuss how resiliency can change how you approach your next web project. The post The Case for Building Resiliency into Every Website appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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The accelerated CI/CD practices that cloud environments have enabled has led many developer teams to create automated script tools that replace the manual configuration and provisioning of apps by communicating directly with the cloud provider's API. This approach to software production is known as Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and essentially forms the building blocks upon which the … continue reading The post Shifting hard left: Why securing IaC is the next step in compliant software development appeared first on SD Times.