Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 6, 2014

Jason Grigsby just wrote an excellent post talking about how he’s wrestled with trying to define “responsiveness”. When a client comes to us to help them make their existing site or app responsive, we know that we’re going to be using fluid grids, flexible images and media queries. But we also know we’re going to be using much more than just those three techniques.

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The Agile Manager

JANUARY 31, 2014

The growth in demand for software has consistently outpaced the growth in the supply of software developers. This has been the case for well over half a century. It's worth looking at why. Each major expansion in software development - automation (60s), productivity (80s), internet (90s), mobile (00s) - has been additive to the total stock of software in the world.

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Software Software Development Government 73

Speed Curve

JANUARY 22, 2014

I'm stoked that SpeedCurve has been chosen as one of two winners in the 2014 Webstock Start-Up Alley. I'll be using the 10k prize money and two flights to the US to attend Velocity Conf in San Fran in June and New York in September.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 13, 2014

How fast is fast enough? I’m asked this question a lot. Page weights and load times vary so much from site to site and industry to industry. While it’s easy to spot the obviously bad examples, it can be much more difficult to find the line between is “fast enough” and what is slow. My usual answer of “make it as fast as possible” doesn’t seem to make people very happy, so let’s try to get at least a little more concrete.

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Tim Kadlec

JANUARY 30, 2014

Yesterday Twitter went nuts over a little site called “You Might Not Need jQuery”. The site’s seemingly innocent claim was that many things that you think you need jQuery for are actually not so bad in plain old JavaScript, depending on what browsers you are supporting. jQuery and its cousins are great, and by all means use them if it makes it easier to develop your application.

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