Thursday, November 21

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Create Web Notifications Using Laravel and Pusher Channels

When building web applications, it is not uncommon to find some sort of in-app notification system that will notify you instantly when someone carries out an action related to you or your account. On Facebook, you will be notified when someone likes your status, or when someone comments on your profile. We will replicate this feature by creating a web notifications system using Laravel and Pusher. To follow this tutorial, you need to have PHP and Laravel installed on your machine. What we would be building After this tutorial we would demonstrate how we can have a small web application show notifications using Laravel and Pusher. It would be similar to how websites like Facebook show notifications. Here is a preview of what we would be building: Setting up your Pusher application Create...
Converting Images To WebP
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Converting Images To WebP

To use WebP, you’ll first need to convert your existing images to the format. This can be done in a myriad of ways, from something as simple as exporting from your preferred design program, to cloud services, to the official cwebp encoder, and even in Node.js-based build systems. Here, we’ll cover all avenues. Sketch Sketch is able to export any resource in a design document to WebP natively. To export an image to WebP, select a resource on the canvas, open the Export panel on the right hand side, and choose “WEBP” in the format dropdown. The resource export panel in Sketch, with the WebP format chosen in the format dropdown. (Large preview) After you make your selection, click the Export Bitmap… button. The resulting dialog will predictably ask where you want the image to be exported ...
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​DDoS Protection Mastery Starts Here

We're very excited to announce the launch of the online DDoS Protection Bootcamp. Built for IT security and network ops professionals, this one-of-a-kind online training portal offers an unprecedented selection of free courses and challenging quizzes that test and improve your DDoS protection skills. Jointly prepared by Imperva Incapsula and DDoS testing firm NimbusDDoS, the DDoS Protection Bootcamp leverages the domain expertise of both companies to offer in-depth technical training in DDoS protection. Until now, you literally had to work for a security company to have access to this level of knowledge. Unlike other training sites, the DDoS Protection Bootcamp is uniquely designed to combine rich educational content with a fun online quiz-based format that lets you measure your knowledge ...
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Getting Started with Component Transitions in Vue

When we build applications, we aim to make them easy on the eye. We want our users to have a smooth experience using it, and to feel our application flowing from one point to another, rather than just jump between screens. If we switch components without transitions, we see a sharp change every time a new component is called up. This is not ideal and can result in our users having a poor experience with our application. In this tutorial, we will look at how to improve the flow of our application using component transitions in Vue. Prerequisites Vue CLI 3 for installing Vue Knowledge of JavaScript Knowledge of Vue.js Setup Our Application To begin, we will create a Vue application. Run the following command: $ vue create component-transitions $ cd component-transitions Once we are done cre...
What are the Best Programming Languages if you DON’T have a Degree?
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What are the Best Programming Languages if you DON’T have a Degree?

Without a degree, your best chances of getting work is with a small business. Over 80% of small businesses use PHP to power their websites. So that makes PHP the #1 choice for those with no degrees. WordPress is also widely used by small business, and WordPress is created with PHP, some JavaScript, HTML5 and CSS3. Together, these coding languages are part of what is called the ‘web stack’. Learn the web stack and you will open up MANY job opportunities. PHP is old and sucks – no? LOL! No! Old PHP from the 1990’s wasn’t very good, but much has changed since PHP4. Today PHP is at version 7 and it has all the ability and security as any of the other mainstream languages including: JavaScript Python Java C# Ruby … So don’t let uninformed nerds convince you that somehow PHP has problems. It do...
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Keeping Node.js Fast: Tools, Techniques, And Tips For Making High-Performance Node.js Servers

  If you’ve been building anything with Node.js for long enough, then you’ve no doubt experienced the pain of unexpected speed issues. JavaScript is an evented, asynchronous language. That can make reasoning about performance tricky, as will become apparent. The surging popularity of Node.js has exposed the need for tooling, techniques and thinking suited to the constraints of server-side JavaScript. When it comes to performance, what works in the browser doesn’t necessarily suit Node.js. So, how do we make sure a Node.js implementation is fast and fit for purpose? Let’s walk through a hands-on example. Tools Node is a very versatile platform, but one of the predominant applications is creating networked processes. We’re going to focus on profiling the most common of these: HTTP...
UX Your Life: Applying The User-Centered Process To Your Life (And Stuff)
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UX Your Life: Applying The User-Centered Process To Your Life (And Stuff)

  Everything is designed, whether we make time for it or not. Our smartphones and TVs, our cars and houses, even our pets and our kids are the products of purposeful creativity. So why not our lives? A great many of us are, currently, in a position where we might look at our jobs — or even our relationships — and wonder, “Why have I stayed here so long? Is this really where I want or even need to be. Am I in a position where I can do something about it?” The simple — and sometimes harsh — the answer is that we don’t often make intentional decisions about our lives and our careers like we do in our work for clients and bosses. Instead, having once made the decision to accept a position or enter a relationship, inertia takes over. We become reactive rather than active particip...
The Ethics Of Persuasion
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The Ethics Of Persuasion

  (This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) A few months ago, the world was shocked to learn that Cambridge Analytica had improperly used data from a harmless looking personality quiz on Facebook to profile and target the wider audience on the platform with advertisements to persuade them to vote a certain way. Only part of the data was obtained with consent (!), the data was stored by the app creator (!!), and it was sold to Cambridge Analytica in violation of terms of use (!!!). This was an example of black hat design, a deceptive use of persuasion tactics, combined with unethical use of personal information. On the other hand, the last time you shopped on eBay, you may have noticed the use of multiple design elements encouraging you to buy an item (“last item”, “3 watched in...
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Making Avengers ID Card In HTML And CSS

  Let’s suppose Tony Stark would like to redesign the ID cards of the Avengers, and he needs our help to create them in HTML and CSS. So, how can we help? In this tutorial, we’ll be using Flexbox to create the desired layout while diving into nested flexboxes for some advanced layouts. We will also be using rounded as well as transparent borders to create sci-fi arcs in CSS, and then animating them by using CSS animations around the picture of the Avenger. Last but not least, we’ll be using the box-shadow and text-shadow properties to give our ID card a final sci-fi touch. By the end of the tutorial, we will build a sci-fi animated Avengers ID card, and also learn the basics of Flexbox, nested Flexbox, CSS animations, borders, shadows, and many other frequently used CSS properties...
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A Reference Guide For Typography In Mobile Web Design

  With mobile taking a front seat in search, it's important that websites are designed in a way that prioritize the best experience possible for their users. While Google has brought attention to elements like pop-ups that might disrupt the mobile experience, what about something as seemingly simple as choice of typography? The answer to the typography question might seem simple enough: what works on desktop should work on mobile so long as it scales well. Right? While that would definitely make it a lot easier on web designers, that’s not necessarily the case. The problem in making that statement a decisive one is that there haven’t been a lot of studies done on the subject of mobile typography in recent years. So, what I intend to do today is give a brief summary of what it i...
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Building A Central Logging Service In-House

  We all know how important debugging is for improving application performance and features. BrowserStack runs one million sessions a day on a highly distributed application stack! Each involves several moving parts, as a client’s single session can span multiple components across several geographic regions. Without the right framework and tools, the debugging process can be a nightmare. In our case, we needed a way to collect events happening during different stages of each process in order to get an in-depth understanding of everything taking place during a session. With our infrastructure, solving this problem became complicated as each component might have multiple events from their lifecycle of processing a request. That’s why we developed our own in-house Central Logging ...
How Do You Know Your Website Is A Success?
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How Do You Know Your Website Is A Success?

  (This article is kindly sponsored by Adobe.) We live in a world where just about every business has an online presence. Let’s say you want to reach out to a business — what would be the first thing you would do? Well, you would probably look up their website to search for answers to your questions or simply any contact details you can find. With no doubt, the first impression of any website is now more important than ever. There are more than 1.8 billion websites on the Internet right now, and the number is growing. The increase of the competition brings a great interest in examining the factors of success of a website. While no one will argue that it’s essential to have a successful website, it’s still not easy to understand what exactly success means and how to actually measur...
How To Deliver A Successful UX Project In The Healthcare Sector
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How To Deliver A Successful UX Project In The Healthcare Sector

  A mid-career UX researcher was hired to understand the everyday needs, perceptions, and concerns of patients in a hospital in Berlin, Germany. She used rigorous observation and interviewing methods just like she teaches them to design thinking students at a nearby university. She returned with a handful of actionable insights that our product team found useful, somewhat at least. However, we were surprised that her recommendations gravitated towards convenience issues such as “Patients want to know the food menu” or “Users struggle to remember who their doctors are.” Entirely missing were reports of physical and psychological complaints. We would at least have expected sleeping problems: Given that 80% of working Germans don’t sleep well and nearly 10% even appear to have severe...
Getting Started With CSS Layout
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Getting Started With CSS Layout

  Over the past couple of years, CSS Layout has dramatically changed as well as the way we develop the front end of our sites. We now have a real choice in terms of the layout methods we use in CSS to develop our sites, which means we often need to make a choice as to which approach to take. In this article, I will run through the various layout methods that you have available to you by explaining the basics of how they are used and what they are used for. This guide is for you if you are fairly new to CSS and wondering what the best way to approach layout is, but also if you are an experienced developer from elsewhere in the stack who wants to make sure your understanding of layout today is up to date. I have not tried to fully document each layout method here, as that would have...
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Google Flutter vs Swift, Java and Kotlin

Mobile app development has moved toward hybrid apps, using the web stack (HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript,) and frameworks like Phonegap or React Native. But when it comes to the development of high demand (in terms of performance) mobile apps, using native languages like Swift for iOS and Java for Android is still the way to go. This might change with Googles Flutter framework. Check out the video: https://flutter.io/https://facebook.github.io/react-native/https://phonegap.com/ Thanks! Stef The post Google Flutter vs Swift, Java and Kotlin appeared first on KillerPHP.com. Source: Killerphp