For too long, many artists have dismissed the Android OS but with our list of the Best Android Tablets for Drawing, we're confident we can change some minds.

We have all become spoiled by search engines' ability to "workaround" things like spelling mistakes, name spelling differences, or any other situation where the search term may match on pages whose authors may prefer to use a different spelling of a word. Adding such features to our own database-driven applications can similarly enrich and enhance […] The post Python: Querying Data by Sound appeared first on Developer.com.

The Ampersand is loved by all types of creatives! Its shape has evolved into a variety of styles since it was conceived as a ligature of the letters ‘e’ and ‘t’ from the Latin ‘et’ for ‘and’. You can find a range of ampersand designs across different fonts and typefaces, from cursive script variants to […] The post Art of the Ampersand: 35 Creative Examples of The '&' Character appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

Procurement management is a complex process that requires much attention from a procurement management team. Find out how to automate procurement management in your company, and make the process more transparent and efficient. The post How to Build a Procurement Management System appeared first on SCAND.

In this article, we'll walk through the process of taking a seemingly simple design for a text-and-media component and deciding how best to translate it into code, keeping in mind the needs of both users and content authors.

If you've been following the recent trends in software, even remotely, chances are you've heard about No-code development. Even though the name is pretty self-explanatory, there are still some details that make no-code development such a big word. In this article, we'll try to delve as deep as possible into the topic and try to...

Wrangling z-index values is a difficult task for many developers. Here is an easy-to-implement mini-framework based on existing conventions that brings clarity and confidence to working with z-index.

On his site Brendt has shared some of his thoughts about why he sees the service locator design pattern as an anti-pattern and harmful to your overall application. As a Laravel developer, I'm confronted daily with the service locator pattern. Every facade call and several helper functions are built upon it. [...] During a discussion with my colleagues, I found it difficult to put into words what exactly is wrong with grabbing things out of the container - a service locator - so I decided to write my thoughts down, with an example. [...] I want to highlight three problems with this approach, directly caused by the use of a service locator. He goes through a list of where he sees the use of the service locator functionality causing problems including: getting runtime instead of compile-time errors obfuscation of actual functionality increased cognitive load He ends the post with a quick suggestion on how to solve the issue: use actual dependency injection instead of "magic" locators.

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This week's Designer News (N.458) includes A Guide to Color Accessibility in Product Design, a Tool for Creating HTML with Markdown, Sans Forgetica, Use Cases For Flexbox, MODALZ MODALZ MODALZ, CSS Layout Cookbook, How to Get Things Done When You Don't Feel Like It and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 458 appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.