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Today’s Adobe Illustrator video tutorial is a quick and easy guide to creating a vibrant gradient orb. It’s a simple process that uses just the Gradient Mesh and Warp tools in Illustrator, but the result is pretty cool. Being vector based means these orb graphics are extremely versatile, so they can be used for all […] The post Video Tutorial: Gradient Orbs in Adobe Illustrator appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

On the Symfony blog there's a new post for those that have been putting off getting their tickets to SymfonyLive London and, more specifically, the pre-conference workshops. Time is limited and the training sessions are almost sold out! All Symfony conferences come with pre-conference workshops. We organized them to enable the conference attendees to get trained on Symfony and its ecosystem just before the conference, during special workshops sessions at a very special price. The idea is to get the most out of the conference and enhance your Symfony skills before learning new tips and tricks from the speakers' experience during the conference. We organize 4 different pre-conference workshops at SymfonyLive London 2018 on September 27th and they are almost all sold out! They also share a listing of the pre-conference workshops happening at this year's event: "Symfony 4 Best Practices" by Nicolas Grekas from Symfony "Building API-driven apps with API Platform" by Kevin Dunglas from Les-Tilleuls.coop "Symfony Messenger" by Samuel Roze, creator of the component "Lightning Fast Tests" by Jakub Zalas, Symfony core team member Each workshop title in the post is a link to more information about the workshop and how to pick up your tickets. For more information about the conference, ticket pricing and to order yours, check out the main conference site.

One of the best parts of the .NET ecosystem is the excitement around experimentation. Someone is always taking .NET to the next level, trying new things, pushing the envelope. Michal Strehovsky has an interesting experiment on his GitHub called "bflat." This is not a product, it's a playground. bflat is a concoction of Roslyn - the "official" C# compiler that produces .NET executables - and NativeAOT (nee CoreRT) - the experimental ahead of time compiler for .NET based on CoreCLR's crossgen2. Thanks to this, you get access to the latest C# features using the high performance CoreCLR GC and native code generator (RyuJIT). bflat merges the two components together into a single ahead of time crosscompiler and runtime for C#. I find this characterization funny: bflat is to dotnet as VS Code is to VS. Michal is basically stripping .NET down to the bare minimum and combining the official compiler and and the experimental AOT (Ahead of Time) compiler to make single small EXEs that are totally self-contained. Michal says you can get involved if you like! If you think bflat is useful, you can leave me a tip in my tip jar and include your GitHub user name in a note so that I can give you access to a private repo when I'm ready. Hello World today is about 2 megs. He says it's because: By default, bflat produces executables that are between 2 MB and 3 MB in size, even for the simplest apps. There are multiple reasons for this: bflat includes stack trace data about all compiled methods so that it can print pretty exception stack traces even the simplest apps might end up calling into reflection (to e.g. get the name of the OutOfMemoryException class), globalization, etc. method bodies are aligned at 16-byte boundaries to optimize CPU cache line utilization (Doesn't apply to Windows) DWARF debug information is included in the executable So when I ran bflat build, here was my output. But when I run bflat.exe build --no-reflection --no-stacktrace-data --no-globalization --no-exception-messages .hello.cs I end up with a 750kb file! Sure, it's not C code because it'll never be C code. You get access to a LOT MORE with C#. This could be a useful system for creating tiny apps in C# for Linux or Windows command line administration. It also showcases how the open pieces of .NET can be plugged together differently to achieve interesting results. I'm sure there's lot of AOT limitations around Reflection, Attributes, and more, but this is still a very cool experiment, go check it out at https://github.com/MichalStrehovsky/bflat! Sponsor: Pluralsight helps teams build better tech skills through expert-led, hands-on practice and clear development paths. For a limited time, get 50% off your first month and start building stronger skills.(C) 2021 Scott Hanselman. All rights reserved.     

Images have become extremely important to the effectiveness of websites. They speak a 1000 words, attract attention, and stimulate emotions. However, web performance is also a growing problem for most websites. And images are at the heart of many web … The post Start Serving Optimized Images in Vue appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

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