This week's Designer News (No 496) includes Is it Time to Use HTML Validator Badges Again?, a11y-css-reset Global Accessibility Styles, Popups: 10 Problematic Trends and Alternatives, Building a Conference Schedule with CSS Grid, Variable Fonts for Developers, Learn Bootstrap 4 in 5 Minutes, GIT.WTF!?!, User Inyerface and much more. The post Weekly News for Designers No 496 appeared first on Speckyboy Design Magazine.

CData this week announced the release of the newest update to its data connectivity platform: CData Connect 2021. According to CData, the upgrades made to the platform include such new features as query federation, custom schemas, and derived views. These added tools are designed to improve the ways organizations relate to and connect with data. … continue reading The post CData announces newest update: CData Connect 2021 appeared first on SD Times.

Design operations managers have become increasingly important as more companies turn to digital products that help them connect with customers and streamline processes. If your design team members work on several projects simultaneously, it makes sense to bring in someone who knows how to manage designers and developers. As a relatively new position, design operations The post Does Your Team Need a Design Operations Manager? appeared first on Studio by UXPin.

On the Laravel News site today there's a tutorial posted introducing you to TOML configuration, a new configuration file structure that's designed to be easy for humans to read and highly flexible (all while staying relatively simple). TOML is a configuration file format language that is intended to be minimal and easy to read. TOML stands for "Tom's Obvious, Minimal Language," which refers to the creator Tom Preston-Werner. [...] TOML aims to be a minimal configuration file format that's easy to read due to obvious semantics. TOML is designed to map unambiguously to a hash table. TOML should be easy to parse into data structures in a wide variety of languages. In order to work with it in PHP (since there is no native support) they show you how to install the yosymfony/toml package. The tutorial then walks you through an example TOML configuration file and what the result of using the package to parse it looks like. It then takes it a step further an converts one of the database configuration files for a Laravel application to the TOML format. It also shows the reverse - using the package to create a TOML file and the resulting output.

Laravel Multilingual Routes is a package by Chin Leung to register multilingual routes for your application. The post Register Multilingual Routes in Laravel appeared first on Laravel News. Join the Laravel Newsletter to get Larav...

The web is single-threaded. This makes it increasingly hard to write smooth and responsive apps. Workers have a bad rep, but can be an important and useful tool in any web developer's toolbelt for these kinds of problems. Let's get up to speed on Workers on the Web!

In this little tutorial, I'm going to share some tips I recently followed to build a fun demo for the Build 2016 conference. The idea was to create a small 8-bit drum machine, with 8-bit sounds and graphics: This small web app was used in one of our demos to illustrate how you can easily provide a temporary offline experience when your hosted web app loses Internet connectivity. It works in all desktop browsers as well as on all smartphones (iOS, Android and Windows Mobile).The post How To Create A Responsive 8-Bit Drum Machine Using Web Audio, SVG And Multitouch appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Along with advertising, selling is a skill that people often frown on. It's true: no one likes someone coercing or misleading them, and nobody enjoys being interrupted. But being sold to well — by a salesperson who understands your aspirations, motivations, and needs — can be an experience that benefits buyers and sellers. Learning how to sell was one of the best things I did early on in my working life.

Christoph Rumpel has posted the third part of his series of tutorials showing you how to create a PHP chatbot making use of the BotMan package. In this new article he picks up where part two left off and shows the integration of the bot with a website. In part one and two we created a Facebook Messenger chatbot that let your users subscribe to your newsletter. We stored that information in the database and sent out our first newsletter. In the last third part we integrate this bot to a website and write our first tests. He starts by helping you get the Facebook JavaScript SDK up and running to link the site to the Facebook service. Once the SDK it set up (configured and included) a chatbot popup will appear on the page asking about subscribing to the newsletter via the bot. He then spends the rest of the tutorial covering testing and showing how to create tests for the fallback handling and subscription actions.

To enable developers and DevOps professionals to accelerate the delivery of their applications, F5 will release new open-source versions of management solutions, along with a new open-source modern application reference architecture. The company also stated that it will take an active role in the Kubernetes Ingress project and that it will join the Gateway API … continue reading The post SD Times news digest: F5 announces new commitments to open source, Julia Computing receives DARPA grant, Apache weekly update appeared first on SD Times.