If you're looking for a different type of a font to make your design stand out, a cursive font can be a great choice. Cursive and script fonts aren’t new, but they’re a less common choice for many designers. This gives you a chance to use cursive fonts to add some originality to your next […]

A self-running or looping PowerPoint presentation can be great for using in booths at conferences, displaying information on screens before a live event/presentation, or even to use in the waiting room of a business to showcase information. The great thing is that if you can create a PowerPoint presentation, saving it for a looped playback […]

With the lovely weather we've been having here in Belgium, all of my senses actively engage when I'm riding my bike. I find myself picking up colorful sceneries while the smell of fragrant flowers and the birds' singing somehow doesn't manage to escape me. Oh yes, it's Summer alright! Not sure about you, but this is the period when I usually feel most inspired, probably, because I'm spending way more time outside. After all, nature is where I find most of my inspiration as it sets my mind free and I feel at ease. Hopefully, you're enjoying some sunny days, too. Give yourself a moment of repose. Sit back, relax, have a refreshing drink and let the stream of inspiration come in.The post As Far As The Eye Can See: Colorful Sceneries, Posters And Covers appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

Qlik, a business analytics platform provider, has announced the release of a new Natural Language (NL) Engine API that is intended to help developers leverage conversational analytics without the need for specific NL experience. This new offering joins existing Qlik Sense analytics offerings in an attempt to bolster the company's business intelligence suite.

On the Laravel News site there's a new post covering a refactoring of view handling that's possible with recent versions of the framework: using view components instead of view composers.. In software development, one of the "best practices" is to create reusable code that can be implemented in different parts of your application if needed. [...] View composers allow you to move the logic outside your controller and pass the data to the specified set of views. [Using view components instead of composers lets you] reuse complex components using dynamic data on any view within your application. To help illustrate the difference they set up a scenario of a blog with a "highlights" sidebar based on data from an API response. With view composers you could extract this logic out of the controllers and add it more automatically to the view itself. They point out that this can work for a majority of the situations there's another method that is even more flexible: a reusable component implemented directly on the view. He provides the complete code showing an examples of this components, including a custom Blade directive.

The web moves pretty fast and picking an approach for your frontend that will feel sensible in a year's time is tricky. My biggest fear as a developer is picking up a project that hasn't been touched for a while, and finding the documentation for whatever approach they used is either non-existent or is not easily found online. About a year ago, I started using Stimulus and I felt really happy about the code I was shipping.

This week Access All Areas members have a thorough collection of handy sunburst shapes and complementing vector graphics to download, courtesy of Tatiana Lapina from Creative Veila. Sunbursts are really popular graphics that designers love to use in their vintage logos and to highlight titles or promotional text. The pack contains a huge variety with […] The post 30 Summer Sunburst Vector Graphics for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

TiDB is an open-source, cloud-native, distributed SQL database for elastic scale and real-time analytics. It is ACID-compliant and developers can use TiDB as a scale-out MySQL database with familiar SQL syntaxes and ecosystem tools. It automatically shards data and users can add new nodes to scale horizontally and elastically to meet their business growth. TiDB … continue reading The post SD Times Open-Source Project of the Week: TiDB appeared first on SD Times.

Access All Areas members have a useful collection of Lightroom Presets to download this week, courtesy of Hydrozi. These Film Emulation presets are inspired by classic film stocks such as Kodak, Fujifilm and Agfa. They are designed to give your digital images an authentic colour film look. Apply the effect with a single click, then […] The post Film Emulation Lightroom Presets for Premium Members appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

As technology advances, cross-platform and native app development domains evolve to come up with more robust and feature-rich app solutions for modern businesses. As per the Statista prediction, mobile apps will generate more than 935 billion USD in the year 2023. Globally, enterprises tend to build dedicated apps for improving customer services, simplifying complexities, increasing productivity, and bringing automation into processes. However, as an entrepreneur, you may find it challenging to opt for cross-platform or native app development. Therefore, we are going to dig deep into the pros and cons of both these types. But before moving ahead, let's go through some interesting facts.