Hallelujah, might we finally have a (hopefully-soon-to-be) reliable replacement for Google Reader?? The article specifically references iPhone, not sure what that means for Android… And here are a couple of alternative lists if Reader doesn’t quite quench your thirst, one … Continue reading
Category Archives: performance
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Wow, fattest site on the web? Anyone got any fatter?? Initial numbers may not look like much (“shaved 1.57 seconds from our average page load, dropped our bounce rate 1%, and our exit percentage 2.5%”), but when you put those … Continue reading
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I’ve been wanting to write this article about RWD for so long, glad someone better at writing finally did it for me! Beautiful collection of animated, responsive navigation menus. Demo 4 is my personal fave… Hilarious! Bah! Ligature Icon Font … Continue reading
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Using cookies to track customer visits to your site before is fairly common practice. Using cookies to then display higher prices to them in order to scare them into hurrying to buy your product now, means you fucking suck. I … Continue reading
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I’m fortunate enough to work for a company that has a tremendous device lab for us to use for developing and testing, but for those that do not have such access to real devices, the next best step would be … Continue reading
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An impressive-looking, responsive grid system: CSSWizardry Grids. And speaking of responsive grid systems, I don not even want to think about the maths that went into making jQuery Nested work… But resizing my browser and clicking the various device icons … Continue reading
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If you’ve been following all the hype and hub-bub around WebRTC lately, it seems like it is coming of age very quickly! Now how about adding data channels for possible file transfer or screen sharing, or why not videoing in … Continue reading
Site Changes & Optimizations
With my recent move from GoDaddy to Dreamhost, I decided to take the time to make a few other modifications, both under the hood and to the UI. Below are a few notes on the process, for anyone interested… Continue reading
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Default browser tooltips. They suck. They always look like crap, are never placed where you want them, and usually disappear too quickly to be able to fully read. Hint.css is here to help. And speaking of CSS, it’s been a … Continue reading
Shared Host Smackdown: GoDaddy vs. Dreamhost
As I mentioned earlier, I have moved my site hosting from GoDaddy to Dreamhost. My reason were: I had experienced multiple security incidents, one requiring me to completely rebuild my site, the other half of my .htaccess file just, disappered… … Continue reading