We always try our best to challenge your creativity and get you out of your comfort zone. A great occasion to do so is our monthly wallpapers challenge which has been going on for eight years already. It's an opportunity to let your ideas run wild and try something new, to indulge in a little project just for fun. Whatever technique you fancy, whatever story you want to tell with your wallpaper, the submissions to this challenge make a beautiful, unique bouquet of community artworks each month anew. Artworks that adorn desktops and, who knows, maybe even spark new ideas. This post features desktop wallpapers for May 2017, created by designers and artists from all across the globe. Each wallpaper comes in versions with and without a calendar and can be downloaded for free. Time to freshen up your desktop!The post All Things Seem Possible In May! Unique Wallpapers To Freshen Up Your Desktop appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Mobile Apps have become a go-to tactic for businesses around the globe. There won’t be any organization in the world who hasn’t invested in this sector. Nowadays, mobile apps are not a fashion symbol; it has become a necessity. Those who don’t have mobile apps for their business will fall behind the competitors. You can say...

Cassie Evans is our special guest this week! Cassie is a front-end developer with a special talent and passion for animation and SVG, as evidenced in part by her amazing work on CodePen. She’s recently became part of the team over at Greensock, a very popular JavaScript-powered animation framework. We got to talk specifically about […] The post 336: Cassie Evans appeared first on CodePen Blog.

When you're faced with two options, it's common to create a list of advantages and disadvantages between both of your options, for then to weigh these up against each other. When your choice is whether or not to go for native mobile or a responsive web app, your list might resemble the following - As in, these are the advantages you'll have when creating a web app. You don't need to send Apple 25% of your earnings You won't be thrown out of the AppStore because of competing with some Apple product You don't have to create 3 versions of your app, in 3 different programming languages, being Swift, Java and PHP/Python/.Net/etc You don't need 3x as many developers to maintain your app further down the line You don't have to fight with neither Flutter nor Xamarin for "device x with resolution y" because of "missing feature z" Etc, etc, etc ... The above are some of the advantages you'll have if you create a responsive web app. We all know the arguments in favour of building native - However, the primary (only?) argument really seems to be some permutation of "you can't do that with the web". Well, we built a complete IDE, SQL Workbench, Cloud platform, etc, etc, etc, where the system produces according to neutral metrics between 50 and 80 percent of your backend code automatically for you, and to prove it, I just published a YouTube video where I in real time create 3,300 lines of backend code, from my iPhone, resulting in 100+ HTTP endpoints, securely wrapping my database. The video is 3 minutes and 53 seconds long.

Machine Learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence that involves the development of algorithms that are adept at learning and improving independently. This technology has been around for a while, but it is only recently that it has started to gain mainstream attention. In this article, we will give you a brief introduction to […] The post Understanding Machine Learning appeared first on Developer.com.

(This is a sponsored post.) Kendo UI makes it possible to go from a basic idea to a full-fledged app, thanks to a massive component library. We’re talking well over 100 components that are ready for you to drop … The post Building an Angular Data Grid With Filtering appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

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Web designers are fascinated with ways to try new CSS techniques and push the boundaries of what CSS can do. Well-planned CSS can control almost any aspect of a design, and contribute to better overall user experiences--with cleaner and more consistent code. But what techniques are trending? What should you learn next? We have a […]

Web apps go through the continuous development and deployment pipeline in today’s DevOps and cloud era. So, there is a compelling need for test automation frameworks to evolve and innovate. In addition, enterprises want to standardize their testing structure to automate their legacy, desktop, web, and mobile apps using a single tool. End-to-end testing hasn’t … continue reading The post Cypress: The future of test automation appeared first on SD Times.