A few years ago, Lori Breitbarth, senior IT program manager at medical device provider Medtronic--a company with about 105,000 employees as of 2020--and a developer came together and created an application using ServiceNow's low-code capabilities. Since then demand for low-code applications at Medtronic has skyrocketed. At the start they were tasked with creating an application … continue reading The post Creating a citizen development program at Medtronic appeared first on SD Times.

(This is a sponsored article.) In this tutorial, you will build a simple weather dashboard from scratch. It will be a client-end application that is neither a "Hello World" example, nor too intimidating in its size and complexity. The entire project will be developed using tools from the Node.js + npm ecosystem. In particular, we will be heavily relying on the Dark Sky API for the data, Vue.js for all the heavy lifting, and FusionCharts for data visualization.

A collection of CSS & JS snippets for creating beautiful 3D text effects. They run the gamut from calm and classy to outrageously animated. The post 8 Stunning Examples of CSS & JavaScript 3D Text Effects appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Some ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ star rating systems aren’t always exactly even stars. Say you want to support rating something 2.25 stars. To do that you could “fill” the shape of the stars partially. I like this idea by Samuel Kraft. The tricky …

A few months ago, Jason Grigsby's post about autocompletion in forms made the rounds. I loved the idea of allowing users to fill in their credit card details by taking a picture of their card. What I didn't love was learning all of the possible values for autofill by heart. I'm getting lazy in my old age. Lately, I've gotten spoiled from using an editor that does intelligent autocompletion for me, something that in the past only massive complex IDEs offered. Opening my editor of choice, I created an input element and added an autocomplete attribute, only to find that the code completion offered me the state of on or off. Disappointing.The post I Contributed To An Open-Source Editor, And So Can You appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

WordPress has traditionally stayed away from a full-blown site editor, but that is all about to change as you will soon be able to edit an entire website - theme and all. The post An Early Look at Full Site Editing in WordPress appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

The leaves are shining in the most beautiful colors and pumpkins are taking over the front porches. Time to welcome the spookiest of all months: October! To get your desktop ready for fall and the upcoming Halloween season, artists and designers from across the globe once again challenged their creative skills and designed inspiring desktop wallpapers for you to indulge in. As usual, the wallpapers come in versions with and without a calendar for October 2018 and can be downloaded for free.

Today’s businesses' need applications that are glitch-free, reliable, scalable, and high performant. Since availability and performance is mission critical, you may not want to wait for your end-users to report a problem in production. To detect problems early, you should be able to monitor your applications to know if your applications are working as expected […] The post An Introduction to Semantic Monitoring for Microservices appeared first on Developer.com.

If you are looking to enhance your experience in frontend development, you are not alone in this race. With the same goal, the creator of Vue, Evan You, came up with the new tool called Vite.js. He calls it - the next generation of frontend tooling. A build tool - Vite or Vite.js consists of … Continue reading Vite JS – Next Generation Frontend Tool →

There are many reasons not to use a slider, including performance, accessibility, and the cliche factor. Is it time we let the slider just go? The post Is It Time for Web Designers to Retire the Slider? appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.