Chemicals are the backbone of many end-market industries, from pharmaceuticals to automotive production. If chemical plants aren't able to meet supply and quality demands, all... The post Why Predictive Analytics, Not Descriptive Analytics, Is The Future For The Chemical Industry? appeared first on Web Development & Technology Resources.

You may be enjoying your web design work. Also, you might be having a lot of success at what you are doing. Yet, there are still those tedious tasks that... The post Find out How These Web Apps Will Boost Your Productivity appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

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 […]

Apple Motion is incredibly fast animation application that you can use to create various motion graphics, titles and visual effects. And with the right template, you can even save time... The post 25 Free Apple Motion Templates for Videographers appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Are you a happy designer? You can be. There are a few habits and tricks that all those grinning designers have in common. And you can do it too. Working in a happy, healthy environment will help you be more efficient and maybe even a better designer as a whole. There's nothing like dreading a […]

This week's Designer News - No 569 - includes a Collection of 2 Color Combinations, 17 Pro JavaScript Tricks You Didn't Know, Text Gradients with CSS, Modern HTML Starter Template, Thinking Like a Front-end Developer, 3D Christmas Decorations, Atomic Design Checklist, New Life for Flash Animations and a whole lot more! The post Weekly News for Designers No 569 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

Rob Allen has continued his series of posts covering the use of PHP on the OpenWhisk platform. In his latest tutorial he shows how to use dependency injection for use in "non-trivial PHP applications". Any non-trivial PHP applications use various components to do its work, from PDO though to classes from Packagist. It's fairly common in a standard PHP application to use Dependency Injection to configure and load these classes when necessary. How do we do this in a serverless environment such as OpenWhisk? This question comes up because we do not have a single entry point into our application, instead we have one entry point per action. If we're using Serverless to write an API, then we probably He uses a common connection type - PDO to a database - to illustrate a method for injecting dependencies in a serverless application. In his example, he starts with a simple script that returns a set of "todo" items from the database (with the PDO connection code embedded in it). Using dependency injection is a better way to manage that PDO connection so he shows how to update it to use the Pimple DI container and inject it via the constructor to make it available to the rest of the application.

Photoshop actions are a great tool if you are a fan of Adobe's photo editing software. Actions allow you to complete a series of tasks all at once, and on multiple files, after creating the initial action. Actions can help you perform routine edits quickly with one click or include modal controls that let you […]

This article was contributed by Darshan. We all love faster loading websites and so do the search engines, but is your website loading as fast as possible? Should you invest in a Content Delivery Network (CDN) to improve the speed of your site? What is a CDN? Hosting your files on a content delivery network is one of the best ways to speed up your site, and can often save up to 60% bandwidth. CDNs work by hosting your files across a large network of servers around the world. When a user visits your site from New Zealand, they are downloading files from the server that is closest to them. This reduces the load on any single server, making the site faster. Let's find out if you need a CDN or not, and how to get started with a CDN. CDN Background Check Before coming to any conclusion, we need to make some background checks. It will help us decide the precise route for your website speed optimization. Nature of your website: This is an important one as there are some domains like news, gadgets, lifestyle, travel, and food which are bound to have plenty of images on a single page […]

Web developers in the modern era often create different kinds of Web APIs and publish them to some platforms. In recent years probably even some Cloud platforms. These APIs are then consumed by some SPA applications (React, Angular, or similar SPA applications), mobile, or desktop applications. However, security best practices must be applied and this is something a lot of developers struggle with. In the Azure platform, we have some powerful features in place to ensure we can develop securely end-to-end. One example is the Microsoft Identity Web provider. The main advantage of using this provider is that we don't need to know protocols such as OpenID Connect or OAuth and this enables us to not be involved manually in all changes of these protocols that happen all the time. Microsoft Identity Platform Microsoft Identity Web is a library that contains a set of reusable classes used in conjunction with ASP.NET Core for integrating with the Microsoft identity platform (formerly Azure AD v2.0 endpoint) and AAD B2C. It can be also used with desktop and mobile applications.