A few things aside, the browser is not a terrible canvas for a designer. Sure, there are a lot of unknowns—screen resolution, fonts, operating systems, plugins, connection speed, color profiles, etc—and IE doesn’t make it any easier (OK, so maybe it is a terrible canvas), but on the plus side we’re given a large ...
WebFaction recently added a one-click installer for a Ruby/Rails/Nginx/Passenger stack. I tried it out last week, attempting to install the Rails-based CMS Radiant, but being fairly new to Rails I ran into a number of obstacles. Most of the problems I encountered involved mysterious version conflicts between dependencies and gems existing in multiple ...
A few months ago I made the decision to upgrade from my run-of-the-mill, cheap shared hosting account to something that felt a little more serious. Initially I had planned to move to Media Temple’s Grid service but further research turned up an overwhelming number of bad reviews and seemingly legitimate complaints.
So then I decided to ...
Update (1/31/10): Scroll to the end of the post for an updated version of the code.
A few weeks ago I wrote a post about tracking events in Google Analytics with jQuery. The solution I proposed worked but there was definitely room for improvement. The idea was to tag the links you wanted to ...
Back home in Massachusetts for the holidays. Lots of snow and lots of cold. And an uncommon spell of morning quiet time in which, while trying to think of a better way to capture events in Google Analytics, I ended up comparing and testing different options for handling events, most involving delegation and most involving ...
Today’s post is just a quick one to share some data from bandwidth and latency tests I conducted on a page using CSS embedded data URIs. For the tests I used another free template from Smashing Magazine and set up the same scenarios as last time:
Original: 1 HTML, 1 CSS in HEAD, 1 JS in ...
Earlier this month, Time Inc pulled back the curtain on their “Manhattan Project” and revealed a prototype for a tablet-based digital magazine concept. A few days later, Time Inc., Conde Nast, Meredith, the Hearst Corporation, and the News Corporation announced they were forming a consortium to build a platform for developing and distributing digital magazine ...
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