The word cloud has adopted a new meaning in recent years. I’m sure the obvious still comes to mind when you hear cloud; a white,

Making code that is agnostic of the CMS or framework has several benefits. For instance, through its new content editor Gutenberg, WordPress enables to code components which can be used for other CMSs and frameworks too, such as for Drupal and for Laravel. However, Gutenberg's emphasis on re-utilization of code is focused on the client-side code of the component (JavaScript and CSS); concerning the component's backend code (such as the provision of APIs that feed data to the component) there is no pre-established consideration.

This week Access All Areas members have a new collection of textures to download, courtesy of Fox & Bear. The Aqua Modern Marble Ink Textures collection contains 7 images of beautiful gradients with a modern colour palette. They’re brilliant resources for all kinds of design projects to add interesting backgrounds, or colourful overlays to your […] The post 7 Aqua Modern Marble Ink Textures for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Recently, there has been a proliferation of virtual reality (VR) web browsers and VR capabilities added to traditional browsers. In this article, we'll look at the state of browsers in VR and the state of VR on the web via the WebVR APIs. The web community has experimented with VR before, with VRML, but now WebVR takes a new approach to VR, one more suited to the modern web. We've accelerated 3D on the web since 2011 with the release of WebGL. Now the web can handle VR thanks to new web APIs that take advantage of VR hardware using WebGL.The post A Guide To Virtual Reality For Web Developers appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

WordPress plugins can be quite useful for WordPress users. The key is figuring out which plugins will be most helpful. A business needs to be... The post 5 Useful WordPress Plugins Every Business Needs appeared first on Web Development & Technology Resources.

Tooltips are powerful design patterns implemented to enhance the design experience by providing additional information precisely when users need it. Sometimes, however, tooltips are obtrusive, especially on mobile devices where available space is at a premium.

Businesses today are collecting more data than ever. However, many companies are struggling to make the most out of the information that keeps piling up.   The... The post When, Why, and How to Normalize Data appeared first on Plutora.

Productivity is a crowded space, with countless apps and services promising to make your life and business easier and more profitable. Of all the apps that make that promise, very few deliver, but we've found one that does: Taskade. Flexible Planning With Taskade Every problem is unique, and part of what defines us as creative […] The post Collaborative Task Management with Taskade first appeared on Webdesigner Depot.

In the world of business, today, big data is employed by almost all industries to drive performance and competitiveness. It is estimated that the big data analytics market will potentially reach $103 billion by 2023. But minus the expertise of professionals who turn advanced technology into actionable insights, the data collected will be rendered meaningless....

This is the second article in my series on REST using Apache Wink. My previous article covered using JAX-RS (REST web services) using Apache Wink. This programming tutorial uses the same service that we built in part one to return complex types. These types include XML using JAXB and JSON using Jackson as the stream […] The post REST Web Services with JAX-RS, JSON, and JAXB: Part Two appeared first on Developer.com.