Tomas Vortuba has a new post to his site sharing some of his experiences with static function analysis (and fixing) and the trap he got himself into when evaluating the current state of his code. This is a continuation of his series covering the use of the SymfonyCodingStandard package. PHP story with code examples, copy-cat killers, just a little bit of static, consistency, sniffs and way to prevent all that ever happening ever again. In his post he uses an example "fixer" for testing DocBlock comments to see if they provide much useful information over what the PHP itself provides. He dives "under the surface" and looks at the steps it takes to accomplish this. He then gets to the "trap" part, showing the code behind the fixer and how depending on 3rd party packages and their parsing lead to code mistakenly being "fixed". He finishes up the post with a look at a few solutions that could help make these "traps" easier to fix including dependency injection and preventing the issue specifically with static functions.

It's no surprise that organizations are trying to do more with less. In the case of managing infrastructure, they're in fact trying to do much more in the area of provisioning software — not by lessening it but by eliminating infrastructure altogether, through the use of serverless technology. According to Jeffrey Hammond, the vice president … continue reading The post Infrastructure management going extinct with serverless appeared first on SD Times.

Haben Girma, disability rights advocate and Harvard Law's first deafblind graduate, made the following statement in her keynote address at the AccessU digital accessibility conference last month: "I define disability as an opportunity for innovation." She charmed and impressed the audience, telling us about learning sign language by touch, learning to surf, and about the keyboard-to-braille communication system that she used to take questions after her talk. Contrast this with the perspective many of us take building apps: web accessibility is treated as an afterthought, a confusing collection of rules that the team might look into for version two.

Teams of varying sizes use Smartsheet to boost collaboration and manage workflows. Is Smartsheet's spreadsheet format ideal for your software development team's project management needs? Keep reading to find out, as we will discuss Smartsheet's strengths, weaknesses, and pricing so you can see if it has the PM software features you are looking for. What […] The post Review of Smartsheet Project Management appeared first on Developer.com.

Readability is the priority when you are used to writing long essays and articles for your readers. You are someone who needs to write paragraphs after paragraphs, get deeply involved in the subject matter to do justice to the topic thoroughly. Therefore, you cannot afford to use fonts that are difficult to read, making the […] The post 18 Most Legible Fonts for Books & Long Texts appeared first on Line25.

The Full Stack Radio podcast, hosted by Adam Wathan, has posted their latest episode, #95. In this latest show Adam is joined by Frank de Jonge to talk about event sourcing. In this episode, Adam continues his event sourcing discussion with Frank de Jonge from episode 85, going deep into how to actually implement event sourcing using Frank's library EventSauce. Topics mentioned include: Using generators to make it easy to transform event streams Implementing a message repository for fetching events from storage What it looks like to insert new events into storage Using event consumers to create and update projections You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or you can download the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to subscribe to their feed and follow them on Twitter to get updates when new shows are released.

The Beacon API is a JavaScript-based Web API for sending small amounts of data from the browser to the web server without waiting for a response. In this article, we'll look at what that can be useful for, what makes it different from familiar techniques like XMLHTTPRequest ('Ajax'), and how you can get started using it. If you know why you want to use Beacon already, feel free to jump directly to the Getting Started section.

When the App Store for iMessage in late 2016 went live, I released Kaomotion, a sticker app with animated kaomoji inside. Ever since the release of this app, I wanted to write up a tutorial about how a simple text character like shruggie (i.e. ?\_(?)_/?) can be animated to give it life-like features: The Shruggie animation we're going to make. (Large preview) What you are going to read in this article is a step-by-step guide of setting up a canvas in After Effects and then going through with the animation.

Mondrian is famous for paintings with big thick black lines forming a grid, where each cell is white, red, yellow, or blue. This aesthetic pairs well with the notoriously rectangular web, and that hasn’t gone unnoticed over the years with … Mondrian Art in CSS From 5 Code Artists originally published on CSS-Tricks. You should get the newsletter and become a supporter.

It is Halloween time! And having a scary makeover is a must. However, in reality, this can be very expensive and also complicated. Even for experienced makeup artists, achieving a scary makeup that passes the test of time and partying can be difficult. Thereby, we have come up with a perfect tutorial for you, which lets […] The post Create Scary Halloween Looks Using These 5 Steps in Photoshop appeared first on Line25.