Use stored underground wind to replace coal? Or attach a kite to boat for electricity? The idea that designers should know how to code is a hot topic lately. The next time you have a few hours to read a … Continue reading
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I recently tripped across the Firefox Tips & Tricks page. There probably isn’t a lot here that most developers don’t already know, but being someone that is always on the look-out for new keyboard shortcuts, I found these, a couple … Continue reading
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Our man Jeremy Keith and his Mad Lib-style registration page for Huffduffer got some nice kudos from Luke W. In fact, Luke liked the Mad Lib approach so much, he convinced a client to try some A/B Testing on their … Continue reading
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With Unicode practically owning the web, A List Apart brings up a good question: What happens when you have a dynamic search (you know, ), and people search for words like “López” or “Lørgensen”? Well, Carlos Bueno has a really, … Continue reading
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A number of improvements come our way from the World of Google, including a clipboard and new save buttons for Google docs, user-feedback upgrades to Google buzz, and continued expansion on what Google Scripts can do. The jQuery world is … Continue reading
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Happy President’s Day everyone! Another random sampling of all things web… Google Maps just got out-Googled… Of all people, Microsoft, created an amazing “augmented-reality mapping technology“. A lame name, even by Microsoft standards, but a truly impressive technology. As the … Continue reading
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The one example in the video is enough to make me think that Weave, from Mozilla Labs, could be a hugely beneficial tool to install! Who hasn’t been out-and-about and wished they had access to something on their desktop? A … Continue reading
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So, how did this Inter-web-thingy get started, anyhow? An interesting piece I stumbled across… I have to admit that I do not know who Michael Bierut is (you designers may now cringe), but if Cameron Moll is impressed with the … Continue reading
Velocity 09: “High Performance Search at Google”
Yes, I know this was a while ago, but I finally made the time to listen through this entire presentation: http://velocityconference.blip.tv/file/2292982/ Kyle Scholz and Yaron Friedman are front-end developers for Google Search, focused on one thing: Make Google Search faster. … Continue reading
Introducing the New & Improved aarontgrogg.com
Since the day I launched this blog, I basically stopped thinking about my name-sake page, aarontgrogg.com. I converted it to a portal page, just linking out to the various locations you can find information about me on the web, and … Continue reading