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In today’s digital landscape, it’s critical to understand why design matters beyond the realm of the creative department. After all, marketing, branding, sales, business collaborations, and partnerships all hinge on the strength of a company’s branding and its consistency.  It’s no longer enough to have a couple of graphic designers to shoulder the burden of this responsibility. In the social media age, a truly successful brand needs seamless harmony across different platforms, whether it’s in traditional advertising, communications, or customer service. It’s not just about engaging aesthetics, but ensuring that anyone who needs to work with the brand image can do so quickly and effectively. Not only does it save time and money, but everyone can stay on the same page with a greater sense of productivity. We spoke with Adobe’s Principal Solutions Consultant, Bart Van de Wiele, who helps companies navigate rapidly-changing digital media through Adobe’s formidable suite of creative so...

  Swift developers can now build apps for Windows using their language of choice. In  a blog post , Swift Core team member Saleem Abdulrasool announced the release of Swift toolchain images for Windows. The toolchains contain various components required for building and running Swift code on Microsoft’s operating system. Apparently, it’s taken over a year’s worth of work to port Swift to Windows. “Porting Swift to Windows is not about simply porting the compiler, but rather ensuring that the full ecosystem is available on the platform. This includes the compiler, the standard library, and the core libraries (dispatch, Foundation, XCTest),” wrote Abdulrasool. “These libraries are part of what enables developers to write powerful applications with ease and without having to worry about many of the details of the underlying system.” A talk from Abdulrasool which goes into the technical details of what was involved in porting Swift to Windows can be viewed below: A basic calculato...

GitHub CLI, a tool for bringing full repo functionality to your terminal, has reached   its first stable version   after a very successful beta. “Developers spend a lot of time in their terminals, and our CLI helps to mitigate the frequent context switching between your terminal and GitHub.com,” says Amanda Pinsker, Product Designer at GitHub. “Command-line tools enable developers to script nearly any action and automate their workflows, which in turn allows developers to work faster and more productively.” The initial beta of CLI was announced in February. GitHub says that users have created nearly 200,000 pull requests, performed over 350,000 merges, and created over 20,000 issues using the beta. After such an impressive beta run, GitHub has decided today to release v1.0 of CLI. Using GitHub CLI for your workflow Start by cloning the repo you want to work with using `gh repo clone owner/repo` Use `gh issue status` or `gh issue list –assignee billygriffin` to find the next th...

  Isolated from the mainstream world, GitHub is where developers find validation and a means to express themselves in the language(s) they know best There’s a follower-following count but it’s not Instagram. A sidebar shows who is trending but it’s not Twitter. One can use emojis to display current status but it’s not WhatsApp. It has several elements of a popular  social media  platform, but it is not one. This is  GitHub , the world’s largest code repository platform online. A platform used by some 50 million software developers to host their  coding  projects, most of them open-source — meaning others can access their codes and modify them to create better versions if they feel like. Most of the  internet  is produced or hosted on GitHub in the form of code. “What Gmail is to email, GitHub is to writing software,” says Kiran Jonnalagadda, cofounder of HasGeek, a platform to build and discover peer groups. Inside GitHub, developers can create th...