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Offering quality courses and onboarding the best teachers might get you the eyeballs. But, to sustain and grow your eLearning business in the long run – you need to know exactly how your students are performing and engaging with your courses, at all times. And, since the evaluation is online – tracking student participation in […] The post The Importance of Student Reports in Online Learning appeared first on WisdmLabs.

I often think about our responsibility as web developers. I compare our job to a health worker, to a craftsman, and I realize that we have a pretty easy job in most cases. Usually, nobody's life will be affected if a website is not available for a couple of minutes or hours. But there are some cases where this could happen. People start coding app interfaces for health application with web technologies, people start connecting health services to the web, and people also rely on websites for their own safety. And that's why I think we should feel responsible for our users. And by making choices that are ethical and user-centered, we create a better web for everyone.The post Web Dev. Reading List #124: Responsibility, Flexbox Order, And More appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Latest PECL Releases:skywalking 3.2.5 Fix the empty field bug in span refs for skywalking v6. mysqlnd_azure 1.0.3 - Remove the use of is_using_redirect flag. More strict validation and test cases with php built-in web server. rdkafka 4.0.3 BREAKING CHANGE: Since version 4.0, the client no longer polls for network events at shutdown (during object destructor). This behaviour didn't give enough control to the user in case of server issue, and could cause the script to hang while terminating. Starting from 4.0, programs MUST call flush() before shutting down, otherwise some messages and callbacks may be lost. Improvements Add partition check for offsetStore (#331, @nick-zh) Naming consistency for setting in tests (#339, @romainneutron) Bugfixes Fix headers containing null bytes (#338, @arnaud-lb, @dirx @nick-zh) Fix topic deconstruct for high level consumer (#333, @nick-zh) Documentation Fix doc example (#340, @Steveb-p) Remove outdated and duplicate examples (#341, @nick-zh) pq 2.1.7 * Fix PHP-7.4 compatibility zstd 0.8.0 - ztsd_uncompress may return a empty string oauth 2.0.5 * fix config.w32 (cmb) * fix 7.3 segfault (rlerdorf) * replace uint-uint32_t, ulong-zend_ulong (Jan-E) * handle cases where a passed in array might be a const (keyurdg) * Fix configure for recent cURL versions (cmb) * Bug #76722 cURL library headers not recognized on Debian 9 (js361014) gRPC 1.27.0 - gRPC Core 1.27.0 update mongodb 1.7.1 ** Bug * [PHPC-1551] - Building against system libraries fails couchbase 2.6.2 * fixed possible segfault in N1QL request * fixed windows build for PHP 7.4 * PCBC-646: Fixed issue with blank string decoding. mongodb 1.7.0 ** Bug * [PHPC-348] - Check for errors after calling bson_to_zval() * [PHPC-889] - BSON decoding errors for Javascript scopes only thrown at access time * [PHPC-1446] - Always enable TLS when any TLS option is specified * [PHPC-1453] - SRV record lookup fails if DNS response exceeds 1024 characters * [PHPC-1520] - Windows compiler warnings building extension with libmongocrypt * [PHPC-1526] - Forking session test has intermittent failures on SHARDED_CLUSTER_RS * [PHPC-1540] - Investigate segmentation fault when using keyVaultClient in AutoEncryptionOpts ** Epic [PHPC-1293] - Support Client-side Field Level Encryption (FLE) ** New Feature [PHPC-1230] - Support object cloning for BSON classes [PHPC-1462] - Support ability to pass hint to update [PHPC-1491] - Add ReadPreference::getModeString [PHPC-1496] - Support compiling with libmongocrypt [PHPC-1497] - Introduce new configure switch to use system libraries [PHPC-1498] - Handle autoEncryptionOpts in MongoDBDriverManager [PHPC-1499] - Add clientEncryption API [PHPC-1500] - Change serialisation of objects for client hash [PHPC-1539] - Create new exception classes for FLE ** Task [PHPC-952] - Refactor BSON type initiators for unserialization visitors [PHPC-1002] - Test regularly with C Driver release or release candidate [PHPC-1073] - Remove superfluous php_array_exists calls where possible [PHPC-1074] - Refactor php_phongo_bson_state struct initialization for debug output [PHPC-1269] - Document that BulkWrite instances may only be executed once [PHPC-1279] - Improve documentation for Cursor::isDead() [PHPC-1312] - Advise users to use 64-bit environments if possible [PHPC-1314] - Document that users may need to copy libsasl.dll to lib path for Windows installs [PHPC-1343] - Add test to catch inaccessible server when running tests [PHPC-1372] - Re-enable ARM64 builds in Evergreen matrix [PHPC-1424] - Inform users that mongodb.debug output contains sensitive information [PHPC-1426] - Update stubs for PhpStorm [PHPC-1430] - Deprecate obsolete driver options [PHPC-1438] - Expose more precise session state [PHPC-1445] - Make find commands for collecting libmongoc sources portable between Linux and macOS [PHPC-1449] - Resync bson-corpus array.json to fix duplicate test names [PHPC-1450] - Document rules by which TLS is implicitly enabled [PHPC-1461] - Remove Community zSeries From 4.0 testing [PHPC-1470] - Remove unnecessary timezone settings in tests [PHPC-1471] - Clean up reference handling in Javascript scope serialisation [PHPC-1472] - Prevent multiple exceptions from being thrown during manager serialisation [PHPC-1492] - Remove conditional EXPECTF patterns in UTCDateTime tests [PHPC-1532] - Document client-side encryption functionality [PHPC-1546] - Ensure Windows builds enable SASL and FLE ** Improvement [PHPC-870] - Consider using ZEND_HASH_FOREACH indirect macros for iteration [PHPC-966] - Explicitly initialize fields for internal class structs [PHPC-991] - Handle duplicates in URI options array [PHPC-1274] - Reset libmongoc client after forking to avoid interacting with parent resources in child processes [PHPC-1281] - Serialization support for ReadConcern, ReadPreference, and WriteConcern [PHPC-1284] - Driver session pools must be cleared after forking [PHPC-1347] - Do not allow empty string for replicaSet [PHPC-1391] - Prohibit starting a transaction for maxWireVersion < 7 [PHPC-1411] - Accept 64-bit integers for wTimeoutMS [PHPC-1418] - Test PHP 7.3 in Evergreen [PHPC-1439] - Expose transaction options on session object [PHPC-1459] - Add serialisation support for CursorId [PHPC-1521] - Only warn in config.w32 if SASL is enabled but not available [PHPC-1545] - Require object or array type for "kmsProviders" option

With one or two occasional exceptions, I've spent the past twenty-two years designing for countless clients. A few of these projects lasted a year, some several months, but the majority for no more than a few weeks. Being completely absorbed for a few weeks or months in designing a product interface or a website can be a thrill. It often starts with the gratification which comes from winning the work.

The average life of a website is three years. And design elements - such as color and typography - often get updated more frequently than that. That's why it is so important to keep up with web design trends. Doing this allows you to make small tweaks to your design today so that it won't […]

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to show you how to create a series of surreal ripped paper collaging effects that give the appearance of an image being ripped away to reveal a different image underneath. We’ll use a variety of fundamental tools and techniques, such as layer masks and adjustment layers, which makes this […] The post Video Tutorial: Torn Paper Collage Effect in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Calendly, a popular scheduling platform, has announced the release of an updated developer portal that provides consolidated access to information on the company's three APIs, including updated documentation, release notes, and support details. This update follows the recent announcement of V2 of the company's headline API.

Most businesses, entrepreneurs, and freelancers don't pay much attention to the design of their invoices. For them, even an automatically generated invoice is enough as long as it gets the job done. But the important thing to keep in mind is that even your invoice is part of your brand. So using a professionally-designed invoice […]

What do Salesforce, TaskRabbit, Tesla, and Pocket websites have in common? They all rock hero images. Make no mistake, the hero image web design trend is still very much alive. What is a hero image? Well, it's basically a giant banner-style image that takes over the top half of the page. The main goal of […]