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I think that everyone of us has seen at least one movie of Chuck Norris. He is a great actor, but I fully agree with the common conception that he plays the roles of super men. He is invincible, incorruptible, unbeatable, and he is always right! Consequently, there are a lot of jokes about the mighty Chuck Norris - for example when Google has a question, they “Norris” it! I asked myself about the possibility of Chuck Norris to be a web designer. Of course, his creations will be best of the best, but how will these pass the responsiveness … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

PowerPoint slideshows used to be the boring part of a meeting or presentation. But now, with the help of cool PowerPoint templates, everyone can make presentation slideshows look more interesting and attractive, even if you don't have any experience in PowerPoint slideshow design. For this collection, we gathered some modern and stylish PowerPoint presentation templates […]

Generators are functions that can stop halfway through execution, and then continue from where they stopped when you call them again. Even though they act differently from regular functions, they are still callable. Let's look at how they work. How Generator Functions Work in Javascript Let's look at a normal function first. In this example, we run a while loop up to 100, and return its value:

Every month, I go and search for exciting, new, and free WordPress themes flicking through the recent additions to the directory. I do this so you can always give your blog a new look and separate it from the thousands of other websites out there. As always, all presented themes are responsive and adapt to any screen resolution. 1 – Passionate Passionate is a theme that can be used for many purposes. It could serve as a business website, but also drive a personal blog. Passionate comes with a couple of individual widgets. Colors and the logo can be altered, and the landing page layout is editable as well. Created by: Daisy Themes License: Free for personal and commercial use | GNU General Public License Prepared for translations: Yes Demo: Passionate Demo Download on WordPress 2 – TheFour Lite TheFour is a multi-purpose theme as well, and is suitable for a business website just as well as it can be used for a portfolio or a blog. The theme is customizable to suit your plan very well. The colors, the landing page’s hero image, and the logo can be changed. On top of that, it offers some special page templates. A lot of effort […]

There are a lot of different WordPress themes for different purposes on the web. Usually, while choosing the theme we pay attention to such criteria as loading speed, customization tools, pre-made layouts, compatibility with page builders, etc. In this article, we would like to compare three of the most popular free themes. We have picked...

This week's Designer News - No 541 - includes Let's Take a Deep Dive Into the CSS Contain Property, 171 Favorite JavaScript Utilities, Microsoft's Fluent Design System, JavaScript Features to Forget, A Single Div CSS Drawing Project, new.css for HTML-Only Websites and a lot more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 541 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Latest PECL Releases:event 2.4.0Replaced obsolete AC_TRY_COMPILE with AC_COMPILE_IFELSE in config.m4 zookeeper 0.6.2Bugs: - Fix 'undefined symbol: zoo_wgetconfig' with libzookeeper < 3.5 (Issue #22) sqlsrv 5.3.0[Added] - Added support for Azure Key Vault for Always Encrypted functionality. Always Encrypted functionality is supported on Linux and macOS through Azure Key Vault - Added support for connection resiliency on Linux and macOS (requires version 17.2 or higher of the [ODBC driver](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)) - Added support for macOS High Sierra (requires version 17 or higher of the [ODBC driver](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)) - Added support for Ubuntu 18.04 (requires version 17.2 or higher of the [ODBC driver](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)) [Fixed] - Issue [#577](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/577) - Idle Connection Resiliency doesn't work with Column Encryption enabled connections (fixed in MS ODBC Driver 17.1) - Issue [#678](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/678) - Idle Connection Resiliency doesn't work with Connection Pooling (fixed in MS ODBC Driver 17.1) - Issue [#699](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/699) - Binding output parameters fails when the query in the stored procedure returns no data. The test case has been added to the test lab. - Issue [#705](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/705) - Always Encrypted - Retrieving a negative decimal value (edge case) as output parameter causes truncation - Issue [#706](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/706) - Always Encrypted - Cannot insert double with precision and scale (38, 38) - Pull Request [#775](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/pull/775) - Fixed the truncation problem for output params with SQL types specified as SQLSRV_SQLTYPE_DECIMAL or SQLSRV_SQLTYPE_NUMERIC [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work - Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017) - Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported - Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers?view=sql-server-2017#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.6 - When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS - unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages - due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling) - With ColumnEncryption enabled, calling stored procedure with XML parameter does not work (Issue [#674](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/674)) pdo_sqlsrv 5.3.0[Added] - Added support for Azure Key Vault for Always Encrypted functionality. Always Encrypted functionality is supported on Linux and macOS through Azure Key Vault - Added support for connection resiliency on Linux and macOS (requires version 17.2 or higher of the [ODBC driver](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)) - Added support for macOS High Sierra (requires version 17 or higher of the [ODBC driver](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)) - Added support for Ubuntu 18.04 (requires version 17.2 or higher of the [ODBC driver](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017)) [Fixed] - Issue [#577](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/577) - Idle Connection Resiliency doesn't work with Column Encryption enabled connections (fixed in MS ODBC Driver 17.1) - Issue [#678](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/678) - Idle Connection Resiliency doesn't work with Connection Pooling (fixed in MS ODBC Driver 17.1) - Issue [#705](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/705) - Always Encrypted - Retrieving a negative decimal value (edge case) as output parameter causes truncation - Issue [#706](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/706) - Always Encrypted - Cannot insert double with precision and scale (38, 38) - Issue [#707](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/707) - Always Encrypted - Fetching decimals / numerics as output parameters bound to PDO::PARAM_BOOL or PDO::PARAM_INT returns floats, not integers - Issue [#735](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/735) - Extended the buffer size for PDO::lastInsertId so that data types other than integers can be supported - Pull Request [#759](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/pull/759) - Removed the limitation of binding a binary as inout param as PDO::PARAM_STR with SQLSRV_ENCODING_BINARY [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work - Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017) - Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported - Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers?view=sql-server-2017#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.6 - When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS - unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages - due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling) - With ColumnEncryption enabled, calling stored procedure with XML parameter does not work (Issue [#674](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/674)) swoole 4.0.3- Fixed `Channel`core dump when high concurrency - Add `Channel->pop(float $timeout)`, unlimited default - Remove`Channel->select` - Fixed call `CoClient->close`memory error - `WebSocketServer` support disconnect with code and reason - Improve `CoroutineHttp2Client`: - Rename `swoole_http2_response` properties to plural form. - Add Http2 `WINDOW_SIZE_UPDATE` to solve dead lock, unlimited default - Add `Client->recv(float $timeout)`, unlimited default - Add `cookies` and `set_cookie_headers` properties - Fixed all memory errors and invalid properties error - Fixed core dump when send without recv pecl_http 3.2.0* Fixed gh-issue #73: build fails with libidn and libidn2 * Fixed gh-issue #78: PHP-7.3 build crashes * Fixed PHP-7.2 build crashes + Added brotli compression support + Implemented gh-issue #58: Notify observers before any request is built

Real-time technology delivers information to your users as it happens. But how does it help improve your product and align with your customers' expectations? Only a few years ago words like WebSockets, low latency and real-time functionality were at the forefront of bleeding-edge development. Fast-forward a couple of years and this technology has become an integral part of many of our favourite apps: e.g. Facebook with its in-app notifications, or Uber with its real-time location tracking effect.The post Improve User Experience With Real-Time Features appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Have you ever found a service or travel tour online that looks perfect in every way, but trying to book it turns into an impossible loophole of clicks and filling out form after form? Consumers and travelers love to see applications that are a one-stop shop for an entire shopping or traveling experience, including booking and buying. That's why developers need suitable Booking APIs when building travel and service applications.