Paul Jones has a new post to his site showing how, on an ORM library he's been working on, he enhanced it to make PHPStorm autocompletion work better. I'm proud to announce the release of Atlas.Orm 3.0.0-beta1, along with releases of the supporting Mapper, Table, Pdo packages. (Atlas is a data-mapper for your persistence model, not your domain model, in PHP.) The goal for this release round was "better IDE return typehinting support" and I am happy to say that it has been a great success, though it did take some substantial renaming of classes. He starts by talking about some of his thoughts and usage of IDEs and, while he's not a heavy user, he understands the value of auto-completion. He covers some of the common issues IDEs run into with auto-completion and places it can get confused (ex: child classes versus parents). He discovered the .phpstorm.meta.php configuration file(s) and some of the changes he made to help resolve some of the issues using it. There was one other issue, illustrated by incorrectly determined return values, and how he resolved it. The post finishes with some of his thoughts about solutions versus tradeoffs, noting that while correct auto-completion is a nice goal, it may not be the best area to focus on.

Every respectable software project needs a README. This file provides crucial information about what the project is, how to work with it, and other relevant information for developers. README files are written in markdown, a special markup syntax. The syntax for markdown is simple enough, but it can be a pain to manually type out, and it's easy to make simple mistakes and typos. Wouldn't you like to just use the Cmd+B keyboard shortcut to bold some text instead of typing ** around your text? Or what about creating a nicely formatted table in your README, especially when editing an existing table? Wouldn't it be nice if the table formatting and column width adjustments were taken care of for us? Markdown is wonderful, but it's not exactly as easy as working with a Google doc when applying formatting.

JavaScript is a weakly typed language, which means we don't usually think about types. Typescript is strongly typed, which means everything has a type. Occasionally we want to make an object or the return of a function conform to a certain format. This is where we use custom types. Typescript allows us to define our own custom types, which we can then use in our code.

Developing a mobile app is second to starting a business these days. Gone are the days when a business owner had to advertise and reach out to the public manually. It is an era of digitization, and people are keen on using mobile apps for almost every maneuver of their daily routine. Mobile phones have become an integral part of our lives, from waking up in the morning with an alarm clock as an application to sleeping while watching Netflix. There is no substitute for mobile phones and apps in our lives. This is the stage where giving up on technology is nearly impossible if we wish to survive in this world. For the same reason, mobile app development companies have flourished a great deal in these times. They have got enough projects and are continuing in the field. There are two categories of apps developed -- native apps and hybrid apps. We are going to talk about native mobile app development services here.

I’ve covered the surreal appearance of false-color infrared photography a few times on Spoon Graphics in tutorials, videos and a showcase of beautiful examples. Authentic infrared photos are captured using infrared film, or digitally using an infrared lens, but the overall style and aesthetic can also be simulated with some tweaks to a normal photograph […] The post 8 Free Infrared Photo Effect Actions for Adobe Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Chatbots are revolutionizing the e-commerce sector and enabling merchants to offer better purchasing experiences. AI chatbots are growing enormously in the corporate sector. In a report published by Grand View Research, the chatbot market is expected to expand at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 24.9% from 2021 to 2028. With chatbot app development...

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I recently blogged about how images are hard and it ended up being a big ol’ checklist of things that you could/should think about and implement when placing images on websites. I think it’s encouraging to see frameworks -- these … The post Frameworks Helping Image Usage appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

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