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Things You Might Not Know About Typography in Sketch

When working with typography, Sketch comes up short, especially when you compare it with the most popular design tools out there. In this article, we’ll give you quick tips to compensate for its shortcomings with typography.

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Wojciech Dobry

Wojciech Dobry

Wojciech is a product designer and web designer with 8 years of experience.

TAM Methodology: An Explanation and Example of Total Addressable Market Analysis

Total Addressable Market (TAM) sizing exercises have become very popular for assessing the potential of a business. TAM is, however, often miscalculated and misinterpreted. In this article, we will look at how to calculate it and its derivative subset waypoints of SAM and SOM. A working example will also be demonstrated for WeWork.

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Free eBooks All Designers Should Read

A picture may be worth a thousand words, but a book contains that and more. These free eBooks may help designers grow as professionals, improve their skills, and expand their field of knowledge.

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Michael Abehsera

Michael Abehsera

Michael is an experienced UI/UX designer whose background in marketing and data analysis helps him make well-informed design decisions.

3 Ways Virtual Reality Will Transform eCommerce

The rise of mobile VR technology is about to create a new playing field in the retail industry - and everyone needs to adapt. Learn how retailers and consumers alike, can thrive in the new era of online commerce.

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Michael Abehsera

Michael Abehsera

Michael is an experienced UI/UX designer whose background in marketing and data analysis helps him make well-informed design decisions.

Web Accessibility: Why W3C Standards Are Often Ignored

The goal of this article is to introduce you to the underlying principles of accessibility and help you flawlessly implement web accessibility guidelines and standards on your next project. Even minor improvements can help your content rank better, reach more people, and improve the overall user experience.

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Cezary Tomczyk

Cezary Tomczyk

Cezary’s two decades as a software engineer and project manager have seen him working at Apple, Microsoft, Nokia, and Oracle, among others.

Maximum Flow and the Linear Assignment Problem

The Hungarian graph algorithm solves the linear assignment problem in polynomial time. By modeling resources (e.g., contractors and available contracts) as a graph, the Hungarian algorithm can be used to efficiently determine an optimum way of allocating resources.

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Dmitri Ivanovich Arkhipov

Dmitri Ivanovich Arkhipov

Dmitri has a PhD in computer science from UC Irvine and works primarily in UNIX/Linux ecosystems. He specializes in Python and Java.

Getting Started With the SRVB Cryptosystem

This article will give you an introduction to the principles behind public-key cryptosystems and introduce you to the Santana Rocha-Villas Boas (SRVB) cryptosystem, developed by the author of the article and prof. Daniel Santana Rocha. The algorithm authors are making a campaign that includes a financial reward to anyone who manages to crack the code.

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Yuri da Silva Villas Boas

Yuri da Silva Villas Boas

Yuri has experience in C++ and a good background in mathematics, statistics, and physics. He developed the SRVB cryptosystems.

Guide to Spring Boot REST API Error Handling

Spring Boot provides beneficial error messages to engineers building REST APIs. Yet, those messages are useless for the general API consumer. We provide a simple approach to improving this functionality.

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Bruno Leite

Bruno Leite

Bruno is a full-stack application architect and developer with more than 10 years of experience and a solid problem-solving track record.

Orchestrating a Background Job Workflow in Celery for Python

In this article, I will try to give you a good understanding of which scenarios could be covered by Celery. Not only will you see interesting examples, but will also learn how to apply Celery with real world tasks such as background mailing, report generation, logging and error reporting. I will share my own way of testing tasks beyond emulation and explain a few tricks that go beyond the official documentation and took me hours of research to discover myself.

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Rustem Kamun

Rustem Kamun

Rustem is a back-end dev with expertise in Python and Java stacks. He’s even implemented a scalable M2M cloud platform for vehicle data.

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