Halloween is a busy time. Not just for the kids, but also for professional designers. It's that time of the year you start looking for Halloween-themed fonts, templates, vectors, and icons for designing all those spooky posters and greeting cards. Well, this year you won't have to spend hours searching for creative fonts for your […]

We're all designers. Whether we do a layout, a product design or write code to design a product technically doesn't matter here. What does matter though, is that we always take the context of a project into consideration. Because as someone shaping a project so that it is appealing to the clients and works in the best way possible for the target audience, we have a pretty big responsibility. Imagine architects building a wall out of recycled material that also looks nice -- sounds pretty great, right? But seen in the context that this will be a wall that divides people and encourages racism and even more inequality in our society, our first impression of the undertaking suddenly shifts into the opposite direction. We have to make new decisions every time we start a new project, and seeing things in context is crucial to live up to our responsibility -- both in our work and our lives.The post Web Development Reading List #174: The Bricks We Lay, Remynification, And 0-RTT appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Next week, we're looking forward to bringing together the amazing speakers, attendees and sponsors of DevSecCon24 to discuss, debate and understand how a Security Champions programme can work. As Snyk's Field CTO, I'll be leading a panel with stellar DevSecOps leaders from Twilio, Atlassian and Pearson to delve into how to get started, the challenges and the fine-tuning.... Read more » The post At DevSecCon24, find out how to build a Security Champions programme to scale your team appeared first on Developer Tech News.

On his site Pascal Landau has posted a complete guide to setting up a Docker-based PHP environment on Windows 10 using Nginx and PHP-FPM. You probably heard from the new kid around the block called "Docker"? You are a PHP developer and would like to get into that, but you didn't have the time to look into it, yet? Then this tutorial is for you! [...] This is the first part of a (probably) multi-part series on Docker. The next part will explain how to set up PHP in Docker containers in order to work nicely with PHPStorm when using XDebug. He starts with a brief overview of why he chose to use Docker and the transition from Vagrant. He then breaks up the tutorial into several different sections, one for each area of the environment: setting up Docker creating the PHP CLI container building the web container (PHP-FPM and Nginx) He "brings it all together", sharing a docker-compose configuration file that sets up all of the services and configurations in one shot. The tutorial comes complete with screenshots and all command line calls to get your environment up and running quickly.

2020 has been quite the year, and it's only July. None of us can be certain what the rest of the year looks like, in particular for travel and events where lots of folks gather together. Given the uncertainty and the success of our online workshop series and Meets events, we're taking all of our 2020 conferences online. How will that work? Read on to find out! All of our online conference events will take place on the Hopin platform.

Dropping conversion rates and increasing cart abandonment are the most bitter facts to digest for every e-commerce owner. Checkout page is where the e-commerce owners actually get their revenue from, and losing even a 1% in checkout processes means a lot for an e-commerce business. While there are a lot of things you can do to try to increase the conversion rate, checkout page design is indeed very crucial to tackle the declining conversion rates. Many researches cite that the average cart abandonment rate is about 70% which has a drastic impact on the revenues of ecommerce businesses around the … Continue reading →Visit us at InstantShift.com

Access All Areas members have a great new resource to download this week courtesy of Mister Retro. Spot Wash Dirt is an easy-to-use Photoshop plug-in that creates professional quality weathering effects to make your images rough, gritty and dirty. A special ‘Lite’ version has been constructed for Spoon Graphics premium members, with 10 paper textures […] The post Spot Wash Dirt Lite Photoshop Plug-In for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

The Voices of the ElePHPant podcast, hosted by community member Cal Evans, has posted their latest interview with a member of the PHP community. In this latest show Cal talks with TJ Gamble, a self-professed "Ecommerce-Aholic" and Top 50 Magento contributor. In the episode Cal and TJ are at Magento Imagine 2018 and talk about why TJ comes to the conference and the Magento community. They also talk about some of the recent updates to the Magento project. You can listen to this latest episode either using the in-page audio player or by downloading the mp3 directly. If you enjoy the show, be sure to follow them on Twitter and subscribe to their feed to get updates when new shows are released.

Web designers have the ability to work from just about anywhere. Still, just because something is technically possible doesn't mean it's easy. If you suddenly find yourself working remotely on... The post COVID-19 Has You Working from Home: Now What? appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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