Some methods for further educating yourself as a designer, and apply what you learn to become better at what you do and more desirable to clients. The post Why You Should Further Educate Yourself as a Designer appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

WordPress is a natural fit for multi-author websites. Its ability to assign User Roles and Capabilities makes it easy to gather content from any number of authors - no matter... The post 10 WordPress Plugins to Improve Multi-Author Websites appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Checkpoint Research Blog: Uncovering Drupalgeddon 2 ZFort Blog: PHP Digest #15 (March 1st - 25th, 2018) Web Technologies Blog: Code quality tools in PHP to check and improve your code Laravel News: Sending a daily email with Laravel and Campaign Monitor Tomas Votruba: Try PSR-12 on Your Code Today Adnan Sabanovic: How to use Laravel with Socket.IO Michael Dyrynda: Sharing databases between Laravel applications Laravel News: Going Deeper with Factories Through Factory States Matthias Noback: Exceptions and talking back to the user Nikola Posa: Testing web API clients using Guzzle Mock Handler Fortrabbit Blog: Your responsibility: App security Laravel News: Using the Laravel Optional Helper and the New Optional Closure Sameer Borate: Creating custom stream filters in PHP

Epic Games has scored for developers in its court battle against Apple over what it considers to be monopolistic App Store policies. The gaming behemoth took Apple to court following the removal of Fortnite from the App Store. Apple justified its decision as being due to Epic Games breaking App Store policy and using its... Read more » The post Epic Games scores for developers in Apple court case appeared first on Developer Tech News.

Google has announced the launch of a new software development kit (SDK) that will package together a collection of the company's identity APIs in an attempt to simplify the development of secure applications. The new SDK, Google Identity Services, enables streamlined integration with Sign in with Google and a new authentication prompt called One Tap.

Una is calling it the new responsive. A nod to the era we were most certainly in, the era of responsive design. Where responsive design was fluid grids, flexible media, and media queries, the new responsive is those things … The post Are we in a new era of web design? What do we call it? appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

Why write requirements? Well, let's imagine you want to produce a mobile app, but you don't have the programming skills. So, you find a developer who can build the app for you, and you describe the idea to him. Surprisingly, when he showcases the app for the first time, you see that it is not exactly what you want. Why? Because you didn't provide enough detail when describing the idea. To prevent this from happening, you need to formalize the idea, shape it into something less vague. The best way to do that is to write a requirements document and share it with the developer. A requirements document describes how you see the result of the development process, thus making sure that you and the developer are on the same page.The post From Idea To Development: How To Write Mobile Application Requirements That Work appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Whether you have to design a website, create the cover of a magazine or build up a portfolio, you will have to choose a font to use at some point. As we are sure you all know, typography is a fundamental element of any creative and printed work and you have to pay extra attention […] The post 20 Highly Legible Fonts You Should Start Using appeared first on Line25.

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Cloudflare today announced new tools and integrations in order to make developing applications simple, flexible, and fast. With this, users will be able to connect their existing databases such as MySQL, MongoDB, Prisma, or Postgres with Cloudflare's tools to easily store and access data at the edge. This release brings users three new ways to … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: Cloudflare announces new development tools; Immersive Labs acquires Snap Labs; Grafana 8.2.4 released appeared first on SD Times.