Even though Photoshop is a raster graphics software, it has many tools and tricks to support vector images. One of the best tricks is its ability to vectorize raster images. This is a very useful trick every artist and designer should learn to use. For example, if you have a low-resolution logo or an image […]

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It takes a whole lot of talent and skill to create a functioning WordPress plugin. Most of us will probably never fully grasp the amount of work and dedication that... The post The Responsibilities of a WordPress Plugin Developer appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

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With the coming of October, what's become an annual event has started back up to encourage contributions to Open Source projects: Hacktoberfest. This is a joint venture between Digital Ocean, GitHub, and Twilio. If you make the contributions, you'll receive a special limited edition Hacktoberfest t-shirt [Here's the rules:] To get a shirt, you must make five pull requests (PRs) between October 1-31 in any timezone. PRs can be to any public repo on GitHub, not just the ones highlighted. The PR must contain commits you made yourself. PRs reported by maintainers as spam or that are automated will be marked as invalid and won't count towards the shirt. This year, the first 50,000 of you can earn a T-shirt (compared with 30,000 in 2017). The guiding principles of the event are to encourage everyone to contribute (make them feel welcome) and to shoot for quality, not quantity. If you're not sure where to start, check out the main page for the event near the bottom of the page for a listing of projects with open Hacktoberfest issues.

In one form or the other, data visualization seems to come up quite often in the work life of a designer or a front-end developer. Be it an analytics dashboard... The post How to Create Your First JavaScript Chart appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

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The Pineco.de blog has a tutorial posted showing Laravel users how to append API and web routes to Eloquent models directly without the need for setting up additional route handling. As a level zero, we can agree on using the RESTful URI scheme. That means every model has an associated route. We can perform different actions on the model, depending on the request type. It can be a bit painful to concatenate the strings and IDs all the time, so we could append this URL as an attribute of the model. That means we could calculate the URL behind the scenes, and use it on the PHP or the JS side as well. [...] Then only difference (in this simple example) between the API and the web routes is that the API routes have a /api prefix in the URL. The tutorial then introduces their custom Routable trait that can be included in any model to handle requests on both the API and web side (differentiated by the "api" prefix). The last step is to append the routes to the model itself using the appends Eloquent property.

In case you're still not quite familiar with Angular 7, I'd like to bring you closer to everything this impressive front-end framework has to offer. I'll walk you through an Angular demo app that shows different concepts related to the Router, such as: The router outlet, Routes and paths, Navigation. I'll also show you how to use Angular CLI v7 to generate a demo project where we’ll use the Angular router to implement routing and navigation.