In today’s video tutorial I’m going to share some useful techniques for creating a glowing effect in Photoshop to make objects appears as if they are illuminated. I’ll be applying the effect to the antlers of a deer in this example to create a surreal fantasy image, but the same process can be used to […] The post How To Create a Glowing Effect in Adobe Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

With rising concerns about online user tracking and privacy, the use of VPNs is a popular topic of discussion these days. Today we explore why VPNs are important for web designers. How can you use a VPN as a web designer to your advantage and protection? Let's find out. VPNs are not just about accessing […]

Drupal 8 is now suitable for modern PHP standards, object-oriented programming, and fundamental factors of the Symphony 2 framework. Drupal 8's integration of object-oriented concepts helps developers reuse and maintain the code that is impossible in procedural programming. Due to the new upgrade, Drupal 8's backend has become powerful and can boost page caching. We've compiled a list of all the features you need to know about in order to consider using this popular framework in CMS development.

No matter how long you have been a Photoshop user, there are always new tips and tricks to learn! I recently came across a new technique that has transformed the way I work. This method doesn’t use any new tools, in fact I’m pretty sure the feature has been a part of Photoshop for over […] The post The Knockout Method is my New Favourite Photoshop Technique appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

PPK laid out an interesting situation in “Two options for using custom properties” where he and Stefan Judis had two different approaches for doing the same thing with custom properties. In one approach, hover and focus styles for a … The post Are Custom Properties a “Menu of What Will Change”? appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

To inspire mobile designers, let's look at how some clever design solutions tackle mobile navigation, confirmation dialogs, animations, and gamifying the waiting experience.

Matthias Noback has kicked off a new series of posts on his site covering the use of the repository design pattern in different situations. In this first post he focuses on "test driving" classes for handing database queries and their results. A test for a repository can't be a unit test; that wouldn't make sense. You'd leave a lot of assumptions untested. So, no mocking is allowed. [...] But how do you test everything that is going on in a repository? Well, I found out a nice way of doing so, one that even allows you to use some kind of test-driven approach. In this article I'll cover one of the two main use cases for repositories: querying the database, and returning some objects for it. The other use case - storing and loading objects - will be discussed in another article. He starts by getting everyone on the same page with a definition of a "query" and how it relates back to a repository class. He then walks through the process of how to test the class, first as a general "get all" query then with a check on the "active" state. Once the test goes green (successful), he adds more variations to both the tests and fixtures. There's not a lot of code examples in this post but it does show some good concepts to get you headed down the right path.

WordPress is changing. How can we adapt to this evolutionary shift without falling behind? We'll show you how to make the appropriate adjustments. The post As WordPress Changes, the Pressure to Adapt Rises appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Can there be other use cases for Cassandra beyond messaging and chat? In this tutorial, we show you how to web scrape on a schedule by integrating the Python framework called FastAPI with Astra DB, a serverless, managed Database-as-a-Service built on Cassandra. Recently, I caught up with the Pythonic YouTuber Justin Mitchell from CodingEntrepreneurs and we discussed how today's apps are tackling global markets and issues. He pointed out that Discord stores 120 million messages with only four backend engineers--and that was back in 2017.

Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:symfony Project Blog: New in Symfony 5.3: Better Protection Against BREACH Attack Laravel News: Highly Performant Cursor Pagination in Laravel 8.41 WordPress News » Security: WordPress 5.7.2 Security Release Technical Thoughts, Tutorials, and Musings: One year of functional PHP; now in Russian! Derick Rethans: PHP Internals News: Episode 84: Introducing the PHP 8.1 Release Managers symfony Project Blog: Discover the first Keynotes and more talks at SymfonyWorld 2021