Remember the night at camp when you couldn't sleep because of that impish little boy who told you the scariest story you'd ever heard? I do. Looking back at those scary moments, now I see that they turned into very pleasant memories — not to mention that I am still good friends with that boy....

No one likes talking about money. Most of us got into web design because we loved it. But the fact is, we've all got bills to pay. If you're a half-decent designer or a relatively competent developer, then there's no reason you can't make a living as a web designer. Here are six simple steps […] The post 6 Simple Steps to a Career in Web Design first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

Demo content is probably one of the least talked about items in a designer's toolbox. Yet, it's also very useful. While we often see it as a means to populate... The post Start Fast with These Demo Content Generators appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

If you're into wristwatches, like me, and are also a fan of the Sketch app (or just want to get better at it), then this is the tutorial for you. In it, you will learn how to create a very realistic and detailed vector illustration of a watch using basic shapes, layer styles and cool Sketch functions such as "Rotate Copies" and "Make Grid." You'll learn how to apply multiple shadows and how to use gradients, and you will see how objects can be rotated and duplicated in special ways. No bitmap images will be used, which means you will be able to easily adapt the final image to different sizes and resolutions.The post Designing A Realistic Chronograph Watch In Sketch appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Forget what you think about user attention spans. Long-form content can be a valuable part of your design strategy (and doesn't have to be a boring block of ongoing text). Users love a good story and long-form content is a great way to create an immersive and engaging experience. To keep users interested - and […]

Regular expressions – or Regex – is a programming term, used across many programming languages, that describes patterns used to match characters and combinations of characters, in a string. Languages that use Regex for pattern matching include Perl, Python, Java, and most modern languages. The purpose of using regular expressions is to identify patterns that […] The post Overview of Regular Expressions and Regex in Python appeared first on Developer.com.

To help you quickly get started with Milvus, the open-source vector database, we released another affiliated open-source project, Milvus Bootcamp on GitHub. The Milvus Bootcamp not only provides scripts and data for benchmark tests, but also includes projects that use Milvus to build some MVPs (minimum viable products), such as a reverse image search system, a video analysis system, a QA chatbot, or a recommender system. You can learn how to apply vector similarity search in a world full of unstructured data and get some hands-on experience in Milvus Bootcamp. We provide both front-end and back-end services for the projects in Milvus Bootcamp. However, we have recently made the decision to change the adopted web framework from Flask to FastAPI. This article aims to explain our motivation behind such a change in the adopted web framework for Milvus Bootcamp by clarifying why we chose FastAPI over Flask. Web Frameworks for Python A web framework refers to a collection of packages or modules. It is a set of software architecture for web development that allows you to write web applications or services and saves you the trouble of handling low-level details such as protocols, sockets, or process/thread management. Using a web framework can significantly reduce the workload of developing web applications as you can simply "plugin" your code into the framework, with no extra attention needed when dealing with data caching, database access, and data security verification. For more information about what a web framework for Python is, see Web Frameworks. There are various types of Python web frameworks. The mainstream ones include Django, Flask, Tornado, and FastAPI. Flask Flask is a lightweight micro-framework designed for Python, with a simple and easy-to-use core that allows you to develop your own web applications. In addition, the Flask core is also extensible. Therefore, Flask supports an on-demand extension of different functions to meet your personalized needs during web application development. This is to say, with a library of various plug-ins in Flask, you can develop powerful websites. Flask has the following characteristics: Flask is a microframework that does not rely on other specific tools or components of third-party libraries to provide shared functionalities. Flask does not have a database abstraction layer and does not require form validation. However, Flask is highly extensible and supports adding application functionality in a way similar to implementations within Flask itself. Relevant extensions include object-relational mappers, form validation, upload processing, open authentication technologies, and some common tools designed for web frameworks. Flask is a web application framework based on WSGI (Web Server Gateway Interface). WSGI is a simple interface connecting a web server with a web application or framework defined for the Python language. Flask includes two core function libraries, Werkzeug and Jinja2. Werkzeug is a WSGI toolkit that implements request, response objects, and practical functions, which allows you to build web frameworks on top of it. Jinja2 is a popular full-featured templating engine for Python. It has full support for Unicode, with an optional but widely-adopted integrated sandbox execution environment. FastAPI FastAPI is a modern Python web application framework that has the same level of high performance as Go and NodeJS. The core of FastAPI is based on Starlette and Pydantic. Starlette is a lightweight ASGI (Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) framework toolkit for building high-performance Asyncio services. Pydantic is a library that defines data validation, serialization, and documentation based on Python-type hints. FastAPI has the following characteristics:

This week, Access All Areas members have a new set of brushes to download for Adobe Illustrator, courtesy of Jeremy Child from The Artifex Forge. These brushes allow you to create graffiti inspired art, without the risk of a criminal record! They have been carefully vectorized from real spray can art to allow you to […] The post Adobe Illustrator Spray Paint Brushes for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

This article explains creating or setting up a cypress.io end-to-end testing framework from scratch using Typescript. Unlike another tutorial, this explains setting up the Cypress framework using Typescript in a simple and easy way. This article is helpful for whoever wants to set up the Cypress Typescript automation framework for the first time. Also, I know that there are many, migrating from different automation frameworks like Protractor, webdriver.io, etc. this will be helpful for them too. This Tutorial shows page object model creation as well, however you can use it for any type of framework by skipping those steps.

Apache Iceberg is an open table format for datasets that can be used with compute engines like Spark, Trino, PrestoDB, Flink, and Hive. It has a lot of failsafes in place to ensure that users don't accidentally mess up a table with a wrong command. Its schema evolution supports tasks like add, drop, update, or … continue reading The post SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: Apache Iceberg appeared first on SD Times.