Here at Stfalcon, we are a dedicated team of software developers specializing in medium and large web projects, mobile applications, and portals with rich functionality. Our qualified team has a strong expertise in the development of complex custom solutions for startups all the way to enterprise clientele.

So many good fonts have appeared in several recent years, and lots of free among them, that we have made up our mind to write a continuation of our article about the free fonts for designers.

Every designer has a set of his own favorite fonts, which he is comfortable with and which reflect his graphics style. The designers often say: «You can’t get enough of good fonts». Nowadays it’s easy to make a set of such kind, totally consisting just of free fonts.

According to ADI (Adobe Digital Insights) travel industry market research — 41% of business and 60% of leisure travel arrangements are nowadays made online. Thus the present-day global traveling industry faces multiple challenges and lays the professionals of the sector under the necessity to meet customers’ needs not only in person but also on the web remaining in line with the evolving new technology facets in travel and tourism as well as customer experience trends. To gain an edge over your competitors as a travel industry expert you should adjust your approach, stay in line with travel tech trends and provide your clients with a perfect and unique traveling experience.

Image recognition technology is more and more often used in our everyday life. Companies and enterprises use it to solve various problems from security to client satisfaction investigation. The investments into products with image recognition function are promised to grow up to $ 39 billion by 2021. Here are just a few examples of how image recognition is used in different spheres:

Healthcare is often considered one of the most conservative industries in terms of technical amendments. After all, there are objective reasons for precautions when human health and even lives are at stake. Nevertheless, more and more practitioners and health services providers acknowledge the importance of technical innovations in healthcare. Modern medicine can’t stay in the last century anymore.

Тhе wоrld has moved оnlіnе. Cuѕtоmеrѕ today uѕе the Іntеrnеt not only to find the things thеу nееd. More and more people prefer to do booking online, too. Іf уоu dоn’t hаvе аn оnlіnе booking system on your travel or hospitality website, уоu, mоѕt lіkеlу, mіѕs a lot of орроrtunіtіеѕ.

The right choice of a payment method proposed to the client is an important condition of success in the e-commerce. When talking about mobile apps, the statistic says you may lose up to 80 % of your clients just because the payment service is inconvenient or untrustworthy. Just think of all those attempts to enter all data with the help of a touchscreen — not to mention multiple shifts and fear of data leaks. In this situation, the integration of Google Pay service is a win-win solution for all parties.

With more and more clients switching online in the search of goods and services, there grows the popularity of online marketplaces as the ideal spots for buying and selling whatever you like. There are marketplaces for selling and exchanging goods, renting, booking, transport services, tenders, auctions, food delivery, logistics, education, job search, and many others. And new types are emerging here and there every other day. Well, why not, taking into account the profitability of the online marketplace business.

Perhaps it is not an exaggeration to say that Doctrine is the most frequently used ORM in the Symfony ecosystem. That’s why for the PHP developer, the mastery of this library is really important. In this article, I propose to look ‘under the hood’ of this Mustang among ORMs and figure out what abstractions and patterns form the base of this library.

In PhpStorm, there is a possibility to create Run/Debug Configurations and to run them from IDE. It allows the project participants to share common configurations using a ‘Shared’ flag in the settings. One of such operations is running unit tests in the course of development. Let’s discuss how to fine-tune this process by means of Docker.