Guess what: those tricky mystery riddles are never easy to design. The idea has to be evaluated and brought into life, just to be crashed by painful user tests and then adjusted over and over again until it's easy enough to solve -- but difficult enough to not solve fast. When we started out with riddles, we wanted to have an entertaining yet challenging game that wouldn't be easy to crack, and would keep our dear readers busy for quite some time.The post Smashing Mystery Ridle Resolved: New York Pizza, Jules Verne And 28 Hong Kong Street appeared first on Smashing Magazine.

(This is a sponsored post.) In this article, we will discuss how we can apply schema stitching across multiple Fauna instances. We will also discuss how to combine other GraphQL services and data sources with Fauna in one graph.… The post Implementing a single GraphQL across multiple data sources appeared first on CSS-Tricks. You can support CSS-Tricks by being an MVP Supporter.

Sendinblue, an all-in-one digital marketing platform, is expanding its solution for SMEs with Email API as a new value proposition for large businesses. The North American scale-up meets a need, expressed by developers working in large businesses, to be able to distribute high volumes of transactional emails (order confirmations, forgotten passwords, etc.) while maintaining compliance, and to provide technical support and personalized campaign tracking.

Everyone likes the holidays. Holidays always make you feel nostalgic about childhood and the festivities. And the images that depict the holidays are always welcome. Designers work hard to create beautiful backgrounds that resonate with specific holidays like Thanksgiving, Christmas, Halloween, and other holidays. But sometimes, designers need holiday backgrounds so that they can use […] The post 9 Free Creative Holiday Backgrounds for Designers first appeared on Line25.

Latest PECL Releases:ev 1.1.6RC1 Suppressed warnings for UnwindExit and GracefulExit in PHP 8. Thanks to Aaron Piotrowski. imagick 3.6.0RC2 - Fixes: * Remove deprecated message from Imagick::roundCorners() - Added: * Imagick::addNoiseImageWithAttenuate() imagick 3.6.0RC1 - Imagick::getImageInterlaceScheme is undeprecated. It's the appropriate function to call to get the image interlace setting. - Image formats are now normalised to lower case. - Imagick::getImageIndex and Imagick::setImageIndex are undeprecated and work on ImageMagick 7. They call MagickGetIteratorIndex and MagickSetIteratorIndex internally. - Imagick::averageImages is undeprecated. For IM 7 it now calls EvaluateImages(wand->images,MeanEvaluateOperator). - Imagick::flattenImages is undeprecated. For IM 7 it now calls MagickMergeImageLayers(intern->magick_wand, FlattenLayer); internally. - Imagick::getImageSize is undeprecated. For IM 7 it now calls MagickGetImageLength internally. - Imagick::roundCornersImage is undeprecated and available on IM7. - Fixes: * Imagick::borderImage() changed internally to use OverCompositeOp rather than AtopCompositeOp for ImageMagick > 7. If you need the old behaviour, please use Imagick::borderImageWithComposite() instead, which allows you to set the composite method. * Imagick::frameImage() changed internally to use OverCompositeOp rather than AtopCompositeOp for ImageMagick > 7. If you need the old behaviour, please use Imagick::frameImageWithComposite() instead, which allows you to set the composite method. * Imagick::profileImage() fixed to allow null as second paramter again. If you can't upgrade to this version yet, pass in "", which has the same effect. * Imagick::ALPHACHANNEL_COPY and Imagick::ALPHACHANNEL_OPAQUE should be available on IM7. * Imagick::setImageMatteColor() should be available on IM7. - Added: * Imagick::borderImageWithComposite() same as Imagick::borderImage() but allows user to set composite operator used. * Imagick::frameImageWithComposite() same as Imagick::frameImage() but allows user to set composite operator used. * function Imagick::cannyEdgeImage * function Imagick::setSeed * function Imagick::waveletDenoiseImage * function Imagick::meanShiftImage * function Imagick::kmeansImage * function Imagick::rangeThresholdImage * function Imagick::autoThresholdImage * function Imagick::bilateralBlurImage * function Imagick::claheImage * function Imagick::channelFxImage * function Imagick::colorThresholdImage * function Imagick::complexImages * function Imagick::interpolativeResizeImage * function Imagick::levelImageColors * function Imagick::levelizeImage * function Imagick::orderedDitherImage * function Imagick::whiteBalanceImage

Follow along with this tutorial to learn how to create a stylized illustration with the appearance of a stained glass window, where the artwork is segmented into several coloured shapes. I’ll first show you how to create the simplified illustration style by using Illustrator’s shape tools to draw a rose graphic. This vector art alone […] The post Video Tutorial: How to Create a Stained Glass Window Effect appeared first on Spoon Graphics.

As stated on Appcues: "Product tours — sometimes called product walkthroughs — introduce users to a new product and help them find their bearings." Usually, when it needs to showcase a new feature or complex UI functionality in a web app, the customer-success team would send a campaign email to all of its users. While this is a great way to create such awareness, some users might not have the opportunity to see the added feature; hence, the purpose of the email would be defeated.

Native applications work smoothly on mobile devices. Their graphic transitions take less time for UI rendering compared to the cross-platforming. The reason is simple: their code can communicate straight to the mobile OS core, enabling UI methods. In the meantime, the native mobile platforms (OS) are written in different languages. For instance, Android OS is a mix of Java, C, and C++. In comparison, the iOS platform is built with Objective C and Swift. So, native mobile development requires the knowledge of a few languages like Swift and Java simultaneously. That's a big deal, as not many companies could afford to hire developers for each platform.

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Akeneo Auto Category Assignment Rules: This module simplifies the process of assigning categories to products.You can now use this module to build many rules with the conditions and categories you want.After you’ve created the rules, all you have to do now is hit the play button to start the work.Following project completion, the selected categories [...]