#web (3832 links)
- How fast are we going now? | High Performance Web Sites stevesouders.com
<blockquote>Web developers don’t have much control over connection speeds and browser optimizations, but they can control the size of their pages. Unfortunately, page weight continues to increase.</blockquote>
Ho hum.
<blockquote>The idea is our editor, tools etc will all live on a virtual machine, in which we’ll also setup our application environment - databases, services etc. We can then develop features using the precise environment we have in production, reusing the production scripts.</blockquote>
Another data point. Not sure I agree with editing in the VM, though.
<blockquote>The service line is the part that scares advertising agencies. It’s associated with building products, which potentially puts them in competition with their clients who, after all, are the ones who actually make things. Those services can create deeper, more meaningful experiences that solve different needs and produce a different kind of brand relationship. It’s also, because of that organisational drag, horrendously difficult.
[...]
Product people know this. Startup people know this. Most advertising people do not, as yet, know this.</blockquote>
- Sensible jumps in responsive image file sizes Cloud Four Blog blog.cloudfour.com
<blockquote>I have a new idea on how we might be able to define responsive image breakpoints that is based on a performance budget. Before I begin, I should note that a lot of this is a thought experiment. I don’t yet know how practical this approach would be.</blockquote>
- Magnific Popup: Responsive jQuery Lightbox Plugin dimsemenov.com
- Frictionless Web Development with Flask randykarels.com
<blockquote>For a while I've been looking for a more fluid toolkit for rapidly developing and iterating static sites. I have three use cases in mind: client html mockups with rapid iterations or slight variations, maintaining the static client sites that I have in the stable, and hacking on my own site. In each of these cases, dealing with databases, CMSs, versioning, or directories of HTML files was either too heavy, too slow, or both. </blockquote>
<blockquote>A definitive list of tools for generating static websites.</blockquote>
- I know jQuery. Now what? remysharp.com
<blockquote>Analyzes 150 billion visits to 1,500+ websites to provide an overview of how consumers are using mobile devices worldwide.</blockquote>
- MediaPost Publications Tablets Convert Consumers More Often Than Smartphones 04/25/2013 mediapost.com
<blockquote>Online shoppers are three times more likely to make a purchase on a tablet compared with a smartphone, according to [Adobe's] The State of Mobile Benchmark-Q2 3013.</blockquote>
<blockquote>If I were running a $1B site, I could do it with IBM, Oracle, or hybris and my SEO team would be handing specs to developers to implement. The deciding factor between those 3 platforms [...] would be things like total cost of ownership, native mobile support, speed, search, content management, merchandising features, and the ability to hire subject mater experts. Frankly, the implementation team would be more important than the platform.
But if I were running a $20M site, I wouldn't want to do it on any of those platforms. Note: Most $20M/year sites, want to be $200M sites, so it's still very common to see IBM and Oracle used on small sites, but they often struggle.</blockquote>
<blockquote>Disconnect, like similar software from Abine and Ghostery, aims to give consumers more control over the data they share. After the extension is installed, an icon in the browser lets users adjust which advertisers and tracking companies can access their data. Disconnect sorts the requests into categories like advertising, analytics, and social.</blockquote>
- a unit of delivery russelldavies.typepad.com
<blockquote>I met an old advertising friend the other day and he said, so what is GDS? So I thought I should try and explain.</blockquote>
<blockquote>If it looks and feels like an app, and lives on your home screen, it’s an App. With a capital “A.”</blockquote>
- Pass dynamic content to template in Middleman stackoverflow.com
- Hacking up sites with Middleman darrenknewton.com
Some handy Middleman tips
- Hoodie hood.ie
<blockquote>An architecture for frontend-only web apps.</blockquote>
- Hoodie: very fast web app development | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- csscss by zmoazeni zmoazeni.github.io
- Media Queries are a Hack by Ian Storm Taylor ianstormtaylor.com
- Invalid gemspec because of the date format in specification stackoverflow.com
- Effective Django — Effective Django effectivedjango.com
- wkhtmltopdf code.google.com
<blockquote>Simple shell utility to convert html to pdf using the webkit rendering engine, and qt.</blockquote>
- Learning JavaScript - my experience and advice | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- My vagrant setup on OSX - Reinout van Rees reinout.vanrees.org
- The Flask Mega-Tutorial, Part I: Hello, World! - miguelgrinberg.com blog.miguelgrinberg.com
- Welcome to Believe.in believe.in
Finding the ad-agency-heavy board of advisers a little off-putting.
- The brutal truth about marketing your software product | Hacker News news.ycombinator.com
- Three Months to Scale NewsBlur - The NewsBlur Blog blog.newsblur.com
<blockquote>I honestly believe Mozilla is committed to freedom and privacy on the web. Google is committed to making money and knowing everything I do. Firefox greets me with a page explaining my rights as a user of open source software. Chrome greets me with… sigh… Chrome greets me with a fucking advertisement for a Chromebook.</blockquote>
- Cleanweb UK cleanweb.org.uk
- Learn CSS Layout learnlayout.com
- Two Scoops of Django: Best Practices for Django 1.5 django.2scoops.org
- How to lose weight (in the browser) browserdiet.com
- We’re not ‘appy. Not ‘appy at all. | Government Digital Service digital.cabinetoffice.gov.uk
<blockquote>For government services, we believe the costs of developing and maintaining apps will very rarely justify their benefits, especially if the underlying service design is sub-optimal.
Departments should focus on improving the quality of the core web service.</blockquote>
- Using SVG | CSS-Tricks css-tricks.com
- Kakubei's Rants: Why I hate Rails kakubei.blogspot.de