Make it count
CSS Wizardry
JULY 25, 2013
Everything you do, do it for a reason, and make that reason a good one.
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Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources - All Things.
All Things Distributed
JULY 7, 2013
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Exerting Fine Grain Control Over Your Cloud Resources. By Werner Vogels on 07 July 2013 06:30 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I am thrilled that now both Amazon EC2 and Amazon RDS support resource-level permissions. As customers move increasing amounts of compute and database workloads over to AWS, they have expressed an increased desire for finer grain control over their underlying resources.
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Crippling the web
Tim Kadlec
JULY 30, 2013
Back in 2011, Brad Frost wrote a post on Support vs. Optimization. One of the (many) smart things he said was: The power of the web is its ubiquity. It is the web’s superpower, and its omnipresence is what sets it apart from native platforms. This is what excites me about the web and it’s why web technology tends to be my focus. That ubiquity, that ability to get your information to anyone with a device connected to the web, is incredibly inspiring.
Conflict, Part I
The Agile Manager
JULY 30, 2013
Product management was never a formal responsibility; it just sort of happened. Early on, it was driven by what the technical wizards came up with. But the magic left the development team years ago: it had been gutted by several rounds of staff cuts that took the garrulous personalities and innovative thinkers. It took the wind from development's sails: those who were still on the payroll were just happy to have kept their jobs.
Recommended reading: Why mobile web apps are slow (Drew Crawford)
Sutter's Mill
JULY 9, 2013
I don’t often link to other articles, but this one is worth reading. Why mobile web apps are slow. by Drew Crawford. … So if you are trying to figure out exactly what brand of crazy all your native developer friends are on for continuing to write the evil native applications on the cusp of the open web revolution, or whatever, then bookmark this page, make yourself a cup of coffee, clear an afternoon, find a comfy chair, and then we’ll both be ready.
Designated Initialization With Compound Literals in C
O'Reilly Software
JULY 24, 2013
Just a quick post on something I just discovered and found neat (I always find obscure C syntax interesting). I was trying to figure out how to use a C designated initializer, where a member was a pointer to another designated initializer. At this point, you need a compound literal. Just a quick background on C initialization: // verbosely create an array with a known size int arr [3]; arr[0] = 1; arr[1] = 2; arr[2] = 3; // => [1, 2, 3] // concisely create an array with a known size int arr [
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Being Practical
Tim Kadlec
JULY 31, 2013
There are many books, articles and presentations that have influenced the way I approach the web today. Its always been one of my favorite parts of this community: a willingness and eagerness to share what we learn with each other. So many blog posts, online publications, and presentations continually challenged me to move forward by presenting new techniques and ways of thinking about the technology I used on a daily basis.
Annotate your graphs
Speed Curve
JULY 20, 2013
You can now annotate the main graph on SpeedCurve with notes about deployments or specific performance optimizations you may have put live. Just click on the "Annotate" link at the bottom right of the main graph to start adding them and comparing the before and after performance of your website. A vertical line will be placed on the graph where ever a note has been added.
For Jo
Alex Russell
JULY 4, 2013
This was originally drafted as response to [Jo Rabin’s blog post] discussing a meetup the W3C TAG hosted last month. For some reason, I was having difficulty adding comments there. Hi Jo, Thanks for the thoughtful commentary, and for the engaging chat at the meetup. Your post mirrors some of my own thinking about what the TAG can be good for. I can’t speak for everyone on the TAG, but like me, most of the new folks who have joined have backgrounds as web developers.
Why I'll Be Marching This 4th
O'Reilly Software
JULY 2, 2013
If you’ve done nothing wrong, then you’ve got nothing to hide. Wrong. Nothing ever justifies giving up your human rights , especially to prove lack of wrong doing, and any government that asks you to do so is not your friend. Terrorism has become a weapon used against us by those elected to lead to keep us compliant, like blinders you’d put on a horse.
Leeds hangout
CSS Wizardry
JULY 10, 2013
I have a couple of days off in Leeds around two conferences; let’s meet…?
Feeling the Customer Love for AWS - All Things Distributed
All Things Distributed
JULY 19, 2013
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Feeling the Customer Love for AWS. By Werner Vogels on 19 July 2013 11:00 AM. | Permalink. | Comments (). We work hard to meet our customers expectations and to continue to innovate on their behalf. This week at the Singapore AWS Summit we were fortunate that our customers Astro Radio from Kuala Lumpur were willing to join us on stage.
Your Mileage May Vary
Tim Kadlec
JULY 7, 2013
When we write about technology online, things can sound a bit black and white. Always do this, never do that. But blog posts and articles can’t cover every scenario. The author knows nothing about your team, your site, your business goals, your deadlines, the behavior of the people who visit your site or the technology they use to visit with. There are characteristics of projects that may make a prescribed solution inappropriate.
Easily add WebP, SVG and Retina responsive images to your site
Speed Curve
JULY 6, 2013
A lot of sites are now using responsive design techniques to create great user experiences across mobile, tablet and desktop. Unfortunately images are often just set to 100% width with the same large image being delivered to all browsers and platforms. Picturefill was an important step in delivering responsive images and David Newton's fork now extends that approach to include WebP and SVG images in the mix you send down the pipe.
The Phony Balance Benchmark
Alex Russell
JULY 9, 2013
There’s a palpable tension in my shoulders as I tap this out — I know already that this post will create cringe-worthy responses and name calling and all the rest. But on we plod. A friend called out to me a peculiar feature of a conference Program Committee they were serving on: that it was part of the PC’s role to keep a look out for strong minority/female speakers and encourage them to submit to the open CFP.
AWS re:Invent 2013 - All Things Distributed
All Things Distributed
JULY 17, 2013
'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. AWS re:Invent 2013. By Werner Vogels on 17 July 2013 05:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). The AWS re:Invent user conference last year in Las Vegas was by many described as the best technology conference they had been to in a long time. We had worked hard to give you great keynote sessions as well as deep technical content by AWS engineers, partners and customers.
How SpeedCurve fits into your web performance toolkit
Speed Curve
JULY 2, 2013
Over the last few years the web performance monitoring toolset has expanded dramatically with the introduction of many new services and products. There are two main types of web performance monitoring, uptime monitoring and real user monitoring. SpeedCurve focuses on a third which I like to call web performance benchmarking. Uptime Monitoring. Uptime services like Pingdom and Uptime Robot ping your website with an HTTP request every couple of minutes to check that it's online and available.
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