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Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral

Smashing Magazine

Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Inspired Design Decisions: Neville Brody Design Cannot Remain Neutral. Local bands designed their own publicity and the mostly two-colour artwork was edgy and unpolished. Previously On “Inspired Design Decisions”. Andrew Clarke.

Design 117
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Windows Timer Resolution: The Great Rule Change

Randon ASCII

The behavior of the Windows scheduler changed significantly in Windows 10 2004, in a way that will break a few applications, and there appears to have been no announcement, and the documentation has not been updated. First, a bit of operating-system design context. Timer interrupts and their raison d’être.

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Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing

Smashing Magazine

Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Modifying Headers In HTTP(s) Requests In UI Automation Testing. Besides overriding X-frame-options , you can delete headers to minimize online tracking, override content-security-policy header, test sites in production, and so on. It was developed in 2004.

Testing 117
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The Return of the Frame Pointers

Brendan Gregg

As my former Sun Microsystems colleague Eric Schrock (nickname Schrock) wrote in November 2004 : "On i386, you at least had the advantage of increasing the number of usable registers by 20%. This technique saves two instructions in the prologue and epilogue and makes one additional general-purpose register (%rbp) available."

Java 137
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Web Quality Assurance: From User Requirements To Web Risk Management

Smashing Magazine

On design systems, CSS/JS and UX. Though the VPTCS model provided us a point of view on what a website is and what the requirements of the user are, we also wanted to determine the consequences for the stakeholders of the web project i.e. those designing, producing, developing, commercializing, or marketing the website.

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The Pros and Cons of Wildcard Indexes on MongoDB

Percona

To test wildcard indexes, let’s create a small collection for storing our users’ details. You can test them on your own using explain(). db.user.createIndex( { "$**" : 1 } ) Again, you can test the same queries we did before. Large enough for testing index size. This way, we can store everything we need.

Database 111
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Measuring The Performance Of Typefaces For Users (Part 1)

Smashing Magazine

How would we test to see if there is any difference between a good sans serif and a serif typeface with users? What would the world’s most ideal, best practice and design research-driven highly legible serif, sans serif, and slab serif possibly be like? How well does a typeface work and perform against another similar typeface?