Apollo GraphQL today announced the latest version of Apollo Federation. Federation 2 works as an open architecture that is designed to assist organizations in implementing and orchestrating GraphQL services at scale. The release of Federation 2, now in alpha, enables organizations to unify their services into a single graph in order to accelerate the delivery … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: Apollo GraphQL announces Federation 2; LeanIX adds value stream management to portfolio; Yellowbrick Data Series C appeared first on SD Times.

As a freelance web designer, you are well aware of the strong competition out there. There is a large number of professionals offering the same kind of services that you... The post Building and Growing Your Freelance Web Design Personal Brand appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

In a new post to his site Matthias Noback makes an interesting suggestion about working with objects in PHP: that they should all be made in one, and only one, place. Consider the following rule: "When you create an object, it should be complete, consistent and valid in one go." It is derived from the more general principle that it should not be possible for an object to exist in an inconsistent state. I think this is a very important rule, one that will gradually lead everyone from the swamps of those dreaded "anemic" domain models. However, the question still remains: what does all of this mean? He shares an example of an object (GeoLocation) that can be created with only the latitude value but points out that this leaves it in an invalid state. He updates this example to show a more complete implementation, one that prevents an object with partial setup from happening. He then talks about the aggregation of child entities and a "paper" metaphor. This metaphor - imagining a "paper purchase order" - helps him wrap his head around the structure of the objects and how they interact.

Designing the best experience is a challenge, and every designer and developer has their own way of tackling it. But, well, no matter how different our approaches are, one thing is for sure: We can learn a lot from each other. To give you your dose of UX inspiration, we are happy to announce that our dear friends at Adobe, are streaming live from the Awwwards Conference which will take place in Berlin on February 8th and 9th.

The modern logo has to work harder than ever before. In the past, a company logo was perhaps intended simply for a shop sign and printed in local newspaper adverts. Today's logos have to work with a growing plethora of smart devices with varying screen sizes and resolutions, displaying responsive websites. Often logos end up suffering within responsive website design. Many have not been designed with responsive frameworks and variable sizes in mind, and are just resized to fit whatever available space has been provided for them or not.The post Logo Design For Responsive Websites appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

WhatsApp is a famous cross-platform mobile messaging app that many of us are using. There is news that WhatsApp may soon get Facebook integration as well. The users are using this easy to use messaging app to exchange text, audios, videos and files as well and all that for free without any charge. It's like a trend to use WhatsApp if you have a Smartphone with you. The number of users of WhatsApp has also increased worldwide. This is a clear indication that this app is liked by many of the people around the world. Now, it's more common that … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

Let's be honest: software development has not always been the most worker-friendly world. Historically, crunch times made super-human demands on developers. This frequently resulted in highly-disgruntled employees, and ultimately led many developers to unionize against crunch culture. What's more, the end-products of this culture were - unsurprisingly - not always optimal. Thankfully, today's forward-thinking development … continue reading The post It pays to be a softie in software dev appeared first on SD Times.

What is the best font for your resume? It's not a loaded question. Too often people over think typography choices for resumes or cover letters because they think the type has to look "designed." The reality is that it just needs to be highly readable. So where do you start? Today, we've got ten great […]

We recently released version 3 of React Boilerplate, one of the most popular React starter kits, after several months of work. The team spoke with hundreds of developers about how they build and scale their web applications, and I want to share some things we learned along the way. We realized early on in the process that we didn't want it to be "just another boilerplate." We wanted to give developers who were starting a company or building a product the best foundation to start from and to scale.The post How To Scale React Applications appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

This week's Designer News (N.343) includes CSS Tools, Relate UI Kit, Type Nugget, Vertical Media Queries, Mobile-First Emails, and more. The post Weekly News for Designers (N.343) appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.