Using voice commands has become pretty ubiquitous nowadays, as more mobile phone users use voice assistants such as Siri and Cortana, and as devices such as Amazon Echo and Google Home have been invading our living rooms. These systems are built with speech recognition software that allows their users to issue voice commands. Now, our web browsers will become familiar with to Web Speech API, which allows users to integrate voice data in web apps.The post Building A Simple AI Chatbot With Web Speech API And Node.js appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

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Graphic design is everywhere -- it's used in traditional marketing efforts like billboards and flyers, and more importantly, it's used in nearly every single digital marketing initiative from web design to social media marketing. If you're a business that's working with a digital marketing agency for any number of marketing campaigns (especially web design), it's […] The post 24 Must-Know Graphic Design Terms appeared first on WebFX Blog.

Tomas Votruba has written up a new post to his site covering the sorting of private methods in classes and why he considers it important to the quality of your code. When I started PHP in 2004, all you had to do is to learn a few functions to become the most senior dev in your town. Nowadays, devs have to learn a framework, IDE and coding patterns to get at least to an average level. Instead of reading 346 pages of Clean Code, you need to produce code and learn as you read it at the same time. There will be never less information than it is today. That's why effective learning is a killer skill. Today we learn how to sort private methods in 2 mins. He starts off by talking about why private method ordering is important, giving an example of a simple class with several private methods. He suggests that, by ordering private methods within the class more related to the functionality that uses them, developers in the system can more easily relate the functionality. He also includes an example of his the PrivateMethodOrderByUseFixer coding standard service to automate this in your code.

Every day, the ProgrammableWeb team is busy, updating its three primary directories for APIs, clients (language-specific libraries or SDKs for consuming or providing APIs), and source code samples.

In today’s Photoshop tutorial I’m going to take you through the process of creating a melting liquid RGB text effect with somewhat of a retro 80s aesthetic with its vibrant colours and grainy texturing. This effect is ideal for creating poster art or an album cover design with a retro-futuristic style. We’ll use a couple […] The post Video Tutorial: Melting Liquid RGB Text Effect in Photoshop appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

We're going to walk through the technical process of hooking into Google Drive's API to source content on a website. We'll examine the step-by-step implementation, as well as how to utilize server-side caching to avoid the major pitfalls to avoid … The post Using Google Drive as a CMS appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

Ahmad Shadeed nails it again with “Defensive CSS.” The idea is that you should write CSS to be ready for issues caused by dynamic content. More items than you thought would be there? No problem, the area can expand or … Defensive CSS originally published on CSS-Tricks

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