On making stuff with code. And making code to do stuff.
There are an ever-increasing number of devices with different screen resolutions to take into account with a responsive design, so we put together a simple but handy diagram that lists the most common device widths as of the present, along with overlays for potential device width ranges. A big shout out to creative partner Sisu for the inspiration to put this together.
Originally posted on April 11, 2012 at 06:05PM at A Simple Device Diagram for Responsive Design Planning | Metal Toad Media
While preparing for my talk at Codemania I started filling my slides with links, clearly not something that scales. So, instead, here is a big list of interesting tools and resources that can help you journey through the murky waters of web performance.
Originally posted on March 28, 2012 at 06:36PM at Sam’s ultimate web performance tool and resource list
It’s not surprising that the tracking debate had people up in arms. A Pew Internet study, conducted just before Google combined its privacy policies (and after it rolled out personalized search results in Search Plus Your World) found that three quarters of people don’t want their search results tracked, and two thirds don’t even want them personalized based on prior history.
Originally posted on March 23, 2012 at 08:36AM at The Case Against Google
This post will help you install the Linux Dropbox client on your headless Ubuntu Server and link it up to your Dropbox account. Unlike the process of mounting an S3 bucket we looked at before the Dropbox approach is a much better solution for sharing files. If you’re a daily Dropbox user you’ll quickly get hooked on the convenience of having your servers in the same file sharing loop as all your other Dropbox connected devices!
Originally posted on March 21, 2012 at 11:50AM at Install Dropbox On Ubuntu Server (10 & 11)
AWS, which most people think of as EC2 computing and S3 storage but actually contains a dozen or more cloud-based services, has become a quick and easy way to bring new Internet services to market with little or no capital by launching them on AWS and paying with a credit card. But given that Amazon is hosting all these new companies it shouldn’t be at all surprising that the company has learned a lot from that hosting experience and may covet some of these new businesses.
Originally posted on March 15, 2012 at 10:39PM at I, Cringely » Blog Archive » Lessons from Redmond – Cringely on technology