Oftentimes, WordPress themes come with various demos that cover a variety of looks and industries. That's great - until you realize that each "demo" is really just the same website... The post Pearl is the WordPress Theme That Fits Your Niche appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

On his Medium.com blog Zeeshan Ahmad has posted a tutorial showing you how to set up JWT authentication in a Lumen application. Lumen is a micro-framework based on the larger Laravel framework's components. Recently I have been tinkering with Vue.js to get a taste of it and I decided to create a quick project to get my hands dirty. I decided to create a blog with authentication etc. My main focus was on the frontend so I decided to quickly bootstrap an application in Lumen because of its simplicity and almost zero-configuration development. For the authentication, I decided to go with JWT and this post is going to be a quick write-up on how I integrated that and how anyone can integrate JWT authentication in their APIs. He then walks you through the process of creating the application, creating the required configuration files/settings and the creation of the model and migration for the users table in the database. After populating the table with some fake seed data, he uses Composer to pull in the firebase/php-jwt library. From there he includes the code for the User controller and the JWT middleware that will handle the decoding of the token and locating the matching user. In his example it doesn't show the authentication process for the creation of the token, just the validation once it's set.

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The Pineco.de blog has a new tutorial posted that the Laravel users out there will find particularly useful. In their latest post, they introduce some basic Eloquent searching techniques that can be used to easily locate data via currently available Eloquent functionality. When our app is smaller - for example at the beginning - it's enough to apply small, handmade solutions. It's true for database searching as well. It's not necessary to pull in a package instantly. Most of the time we can use some simple techniques to perform searches in Eloquent. [...] Searching is a vital part of any application. A good interface helps the user to retrieve the information it needs. So it's essential to bring a good solution both on front-end and back-end. In this post, we are not covering any UI or front-end related topics. [...] So for now, let's talk about MySQL and Eloquent only. In the post, they share a few methods for searching data that don't require any additional service or package. They're mostly just taking advantage of features the MySQL database supports but they're showing how to use them in a Laravel environment: simple "where" clauses using the fuzzy matching of the "like" keyword searching JSON columns by a "path" using "sounds like" to find similar values Each item on the list comes with a few lines of code showing how to use it via an Eloquent model and a brief explanation of what's happening behind the scenes in the database.

This week's Designer News - No 590 - includes Figma Free Wireframe Templates, Modern CSS Pseudo-Class Selector Guide, Free Web Interface Handbook, Free High-Resolution Texture Packs, and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 590 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

This WordPress collection is a one-stop resource for all your WordPress-related needs. Themes, plugins, tutorials, guides… we have it all. So, don’t hesitate to scroll down and download, view or bookmark the resource that you find useful. Before trying any... The post 30 of the Top WordPress Freebies of 2015 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The Linux Foundation this week announced that Ent, an entity framework for the Go programming language that Facebook made available as an open-source project, is now being governed going forward under the auspices of the consortium. The Ent framework makes it easier for developers to build and maintain complex backend applications created using a codebase […] The post Linux Foundation to Govern Ent Framework for Building Complex Applications appeared first on Developer.com.

Have you noticed all the fluid, boundless shapes in design projects recently? The use of bubbles and blobs is trending. From simple circles to interconnecting loops, to full-screen blobs that move and shift, to simple "blobby" animations, this trend is popping up everywhere. The nice thing is that while using bubbles and blobs is a […]

Have you heard of Docker but thought that it's only for system administrators and other Linux geeks? Or have you looked into it and felt a bit intimidated by the jargon? Or are you silently suffering with a messy development environment that seems to break all of the time in various mysterious ways? Then read on. By the end of this article, you should have a basic understanding of Docker and have it working on your computer! The first part of this article gives a bit of background to help you understand the concepts behind Docker through some metaphors. But if you just want to get started with the tutorial, skip to the "Time to Play!" section.The post Why You Should Stop Installing Your WebDev Environment Locally appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

There comes a time when every designer needs to decide which design tool they're going to settle down with for the rest of their career. If you're in the process of finding your perfect design tool or looking for a replacement, this guide is for you. Sketch app used to hold the throne as one […]