Hand lettering fonts can add a unique flourish to your design. They’re full of fun, character, and style. Whether you’re looking for a realistic calligraphy effect, or something more abstract, our collection of the best hand lettering fonts is a great starting point! Hand lettering fonts span a huge range of styles. They range from […]

Back in the first part of this series, we explained why this project came to be. Namely a desire to learn how a small web application could be made in vanilla JavaScript and to get a non-designing developer working his design chops a little. In part two we took some basic initial designs and got things up and running with some tooling and technology choices. We covered how and why parts of the design changed and the ramifications of those changes.

On days when things don't seem to go as you'd like them to and inspiration is at its lowest, it's good to take a short break and go outside to try and empty your mind. That always seems to be the best remedy for me, especially whenever I jump on my bike and go for a short ride. Now the time has come to enjoy these moments even more as the spring season finally starts to show up in nature. We're starting to see green leaves on the trees again, and every morning I wake up to the sounds of the birds chirping. I really enjoy these small joys of spring — who doesn't?The post 50 Vibrant Illustrations To Let Your Mind Wander appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Microsoft has announced the July 2021 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code. This release introduces a quicker way of configuring project roots. According to Microsoft, a common issue developers have is that developers see diagnostics under import statements when opening new projects, but they don't know how to resolve them. Configuring project … continue reading The post Latest Python Extension for VS Code release introduces faster way to set project roots appeared first on SD Times.

MySQL 8.0 comes with improved defaults, aiming at the best out of the box experience possible. Here we describe the changes and why they are made. Introduction Generally speaking, a good default is “the best choice for most users, most of the time”.…

Historically, mobile app development has been based on monolithic architectures that are rigid in nature. In such an architecture, the different functionalities and components of an app are in a single instance. Today, this trend is shifting and changing the mobile app development landscape. Mobile app developers and mobile app development companies are leveraging microservices...

PHP team is glad to announce the release of the third PHP 7.4.0 version, PHP 7.4.0 Alpha 3. This continues the PHP 7.4 release cycle, the rough outline of which is specified in the PHP Wiki. For source downloads of PHP 7.4.0 Alpha 3 please visit the download page. Please carefully test this version ...

The Sunshine PHP Conference has officially announced the opening of their Call for Papers for their 2019 event: We are happy to announce the CFP for SunshinePHP 2019 has launched at https://cfp.sunshinephp.com where we will accept talk submissions until September 15th, 2018. SunshinePHP hit it's 7th year and will happen from February 7th to 9th, 2019 in sunny Miami, Florida. As one of the largest community conferences in the U.S. there is no doubt the schedule will be amazing this year. We will have a full tutorial day featuring 3-hour sessions followed by 2 days of 1-hour talks and inspirational keynotes. The conference offers a generous speaker package for those selected for the event so get over there and start submitting! (And remember, the more talks you submit the better!)

You can save loads of development time by working with frontend UI kits. The most popular is Bootstrap although far too many homogeneous sites rely on that framework. To give... The post The 10 Most Popular Open Source Front-End Web UI Kits appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

Brainstorming is notorious for being unstructured and often unactionable. People get in a room with some Post-its and whiteboards and expect the great ideas to happen. The problem is, even if there are great ideas in the room, there is often no clear-cut way to decide on what ideas to take action on. About a year ago, I and my colleague Michael (founding partner at AJ&Smart) were sitting in a masterclass run by the fantastic Adrian Howard on the subject of feature prioritization in agile development. More specifically, we were asking how we could decide which feature comes next and when it should be released.The post A Framework For Brainstorming Products appeared first on Smashing Magazine.