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Here's what was popular in the PHP community one year ago today:Evozon Blog: GDPR - a brief reality check Asmir Mustafic: Modular Application Architecture - Intro Sergey Zhuk: Building ReactPHP Memached Client: Emitting Events Trivago Tech Blog: Continuous Performance Monitoring for PHP - The tale of Blackfire at trivago Derick Rethans: PHP 7.2's "switch" optimisations Robert Basic: What implements an interface Asmir Mustafic: How do I deploy my Symfony API - Part 5 - Conclusion Michael Cullum: A month of PHP FIG #1: October 2017 TutsPlus.com: How to Deploy With Deployer Joshua Thijssen: Symfony's autowiring SitePoint PHP Blog: Your First PHP Code SitePoint PHP Blog: How to Optimize MySQL: Indexes, Slow Queries, Configuration Symfony Blog: The Symfony Community Awards are back! Tim MacDonald: Backup multiple sites and frameworks with 'Laravel Backup' Symfony Finland: Symfony Flex adoption picks up prior to release of 4.0 in November 2017 Peter Lafferty: TDD On A Silex Controller Cloudways Blog: Integrate CloudwaysCDN With Laravel Applications Laravel News: Command Line Search Tools for Programmers

I recently came across a neat design on Pinterest which featured a cool background pattern made of distorted lines, which inspired me to experiment with some similar abstract stripe effects of my own. The result is this collection of 10 free graphics that you can use as backgrounds for your artwork and designs. Each one […] The post 10 Free Abstract Stripes Backgrounds with Distorted Lines appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Time moves pretty fast. A new year will be upon us soon, and most of us probably haven't even realized it. So while we're almost ready to leave the autumn season (and 2016!) behind, let's refuel our inspiration for another month and start working on our New Year's resolution list. Observe closely at the following techniques used, and how the colors have been applied to add contrast and character. As always, there is a lot to learn. I hope that these illustrations and photographs will inspire you to get creative and get ideas which you can apply in your own projects. Go ahead, don't let anything come in your way, and let your artistic juices flow so you can create something beautiful and unique yourself. Let's begin. The post Breaking Out Of The Box: Design Inspiration (December 2016) appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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The style of ‘Old School’ tattoos is a popular aesthetic in the tattooing scene and has become an iconic illustration style in other genres of art. The stylised handmade drawings feature thick black outlines and bold colours, often depicting roses, anchors and pin-up girls from the tradition of sailor tattooing. Follow along with today’s Photoshop […] The post How To Create Old School Style Tattoo Art in Adobe Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

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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.

Latest PECL Releases:parallel 0.8.3 - Fix potential race condition for state on Future::value (where an exception was thrown) Better compatibility with JIT pcov 1.0.1 - Release memory from building CFG as early as possible - Compat with 7.4/8.0 changes datadog_trace 0.16.1 ### Fixed Error traces don't appear in "Total Errors" panel #375 igbinary 3.0.1 * Fix version check when statically building igbinary inside of the php-src folder. mailparse 3.0.3 QA Release: - add missing files in archive - fix -Wformat warning - add dependency on mbstring extension - PHP 7.3 compatibility sqlsrv 5.6.1 [Fixed] - Issue [#937](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/937) - fixed assumptions made when calculating field or column metadata which may have resulted in application termination - Issue [#955](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/955) - modified sqlsrv config file such that it can be compiled independently of pdo_sqlsrv [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values - In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work - Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017) - Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported - Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers?view=sql-server-2017#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7 - When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS - unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages - due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling) - With ColumnEncryption enabled, calling stored procedure with XML parameter does not work (Issue [#674](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/674)) - In SUSE 15, Azure Active Directory connections may fail if PHP is installed from packages (Issue [#934](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/934)) pdo_sqlsrv 5.6.1 [Fixed] - Issue [#937](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/937) - fixed assumptions made when calculating field or column metadata which may have resulted in application termination - Pull Request [#946](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/pull/946) - fixed PDOStatement::getColumnMeta() to return false when something goes wrong [Limitations] - No support for inout / output params when using sql_variant type - No support for inout / output params when formatting decimal values - In Linux and macOS, setlocale() only takes effect if it is invoked before the first connection. Attempting to set the locale after connecting will not work - Always Encrypted requires [MS ODBC Driver 17+](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/odbc/linux-mac/installing-the-microsoft-odbc-driver-for-sql-server?view=sql-server-2017) - Only Windows Certificate Store and Azure Key Vault are supported. Custom Keystores are not yet supported - Issue [#716](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/716) - With Always Encrypted enabled, named parameters in subqueries are not supported - [Always Encrypted limitations](https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sql/connect/php/using-always-encrypted-php-drivers?view=sql-server-2017#limitations-of-the-php-drivers-when-using-always-encrypted) [Known Issues] - Connection pooling on Linux or macOS is not recommended with [unixODBC](http://www.unixodbc.org/) < 2.3.7 - When pooling is enabled in Linux or macOS - unixODBC <= 2.3.4 (Linux and macOS) might not return proper diagnostic information, such as error messages, warnings and informative messages - due to this unixODBC bug, fetch large data (such as xml, binary) as streams as a workaround. See the examples [here](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/wiki/Features#pooling) - With ColumnEncryption enabled, calling stored procedure with XML parameter does not work (Issue [#674](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/674)) - In SUSE 15, Azure Active Directory connections may fail if PHP is installed from packages (Issue [#934](https://github.com/Microsoft/msphpsql/issues/934)) datadog_trace 0.16.0 ### Changed - When shutdown hook is executed we disable all tracing to avoid creating unnecessary spans #361 - Inside request init hook we disable all function tracing when we decide not to trace #361 Added Disable request_init_hook functionality in presence of blacklisted modules via ddtrace.internal_blacklisted_modules_list=some_module,some_other_module #345 & #370 Integration-level configuration #354 dd_trace_disable_in_request function which disables all function tracing until request ends #361 Fixed Symfony template rendering spans #359 Laravel integration user ID errors #363 Non-success HTTP response codes aren't properly categorized as errors in the APM UI #366