We always try to challenge your artistic abilities and create some interesting and inspiring artwork. As a matter of fact, we discovered the best source for inspiration: desktop wallpapers that are a little more distinctive than the usual crowd. This creativity mission has been going on for eight years now and, like every month, artists and designers from across the globe got their creative juices flowing to produce desktop wallpapers for you to indulge in. The wallpapers all come in versions with and without a calendar for May 2016 and can be downloaded for free. A big thank-you to everyone who contributed their works! Now, could there be a better occasion to freshen up your desktop?The post Desktop Wallpaper Calendars: May 2016 appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Latest PECL Releases:protobuf 4.0.0RC2 GA release. mongodb 1.8.0RC1 ** Bug * [PHPC-1648] - Ensure directConnection is validated when specified in URI options array ** Task * [PHPC-1635] - Ensure OCSP and AWS auth are tested on both 4.4 and latest ** Improvement * [PHPC-1556] - Reduce Client Time To Recovery On Topology Changes protobuf 3.12.3 GA release. protobuf 4.0.0RC1 GA release.

On the TutsPlus.com site today there's a new tutorial where they spotlight one of the components in the Symfony framework: the routing component. The tutorial outlines some of the basics about the component, installing it and putting it to use. The Symfony Routing Component is a very popular routing component which is adapted by several frameworks and provides a lot of flexibility should you wish to set up routes in your PHP application. If you've built a custom PHP application and are looking for a feature-rich routing library, the Symfony Routing Component is more than a worth a look. It also allows you to define routes for your application in the YAML format. Starting with installation and configuration, we'll go through real-world examples to demonstrate a variety of options the component has for route configuration. The tutorial starts with the commands to get the component installed (via Composer) and other related components for YAML parsing, HTTP handling and configuration parsing. It then provides examples of: setting up the instance and defining some basic routes how route matching works loading routes from a YAML file The tutorial finishes with an example of an "all in one" router that pulls in the route configuration and creates a new Router instance with them ready and waiting to handle requests.

Stories form the connective tissue of our lives. They're our experiences, our memories, and our entertainment. They have rhythms and structures that keep us engaged. In this article, we'll look at how those same rhythms and structures can help us enrich and enhance the user experience. In his seminal work Hero With A Thousand Faces, Joseph Campbell identified a structure that rings true across a wide variety of stories. He called this "The Hero's Journey," but his book explaining it was 300+ pages so we’ll use a simplified version of Campbell's work or a jazzified version of the plot structure you probably learned about in elementary school:

WordPress 5.0 brought with it a lot of change and controversy. Most of the buzz surrounded the switch to a new block-based editor named Gutenberg. It seemed to have left... The post Behind the Scenes of ClassicPress – the WordPress Alternative appeared first on Speckyboy Web Design Magazine.

A storefront sign is an essential marketing component for any retail store. It is an avenue for you to communicate and guide potential customers to your business. Most retail signs contain details such as the store’s name, the products or service offered, the operating hours, and even discounted deals. Still,

If you’re on the search for the perfect website template for your first blog, then you should know there are some things to keep in mind. First of all, the template you’re gonna choose has to be easy to use, so you won’t have any problems when uploading new content – be it text, images […] The post 25 Blog Website Templates for Making Your First Blog appeared first on Line25.

While one of the best parts of the job for a small business or freelancer is getting paid, one of the worst parts is the paperwork you have to do ahead of that payment. If you are still creating manual invoices, it might be time to look at a cloud-based system that can help you […]

If you work as a designer, photographer or any other type of artist, you need a portfolio. A portfolio website is the easiest and quickest way to showcase your work. Don’t focus only on having a physical portfolio, because nowadays, a website and strong online presence is mandatory if you want to grow your business and […] The post 40 Quick & Easy Portfolio Website Templates appeared first on Line25.

In this blog, we are going to learn how to Override a Symfony Controller available in PrestaShop back-office. In PrestaShop 1.7, back-office controllers are of two types: PHP Controller Symfony Controllers Most of our needs can fulfilled using hooks or overriding templates. But we can also override or change a Symfony Controller completely as per our requirement. [...]