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
Category Archives: performance
Today’s Readings
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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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
Firebug 1.5 is Out. Download it NOW!
It is rare, I think, to find a new version of software so amazingly different that you want to shout about it, let alone a browser add-on! But Firebug 1.5 is the exception to the rule! Download it and restart … Continue reading
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I recently read a post from Nicholas C. Zakas about the pitfalls of using empty <img> tags in your HTML. Essentially, when most of the world’s favorite browsers (Opera and Firefox 3.5+ excluded) encounter a tag like <img src=”” >, … Continue reading
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A couple good reads from Ajaxian recently on new Google features: Speed Tracer: Google announces new tools and more thanks to the GWT team A busy Chrome week: Extensions, Web Sockets, and more This post seemed intriguing, until I actually … Continue reading
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By a show of hands, how many of you make wireframes for your new client sites? Okay, good. Now, those of you that do, how do you share those wireframes with your clients? Do you save them as PDFs and … Continue reading