…its automatic currency conversion to BTC, so I fixed that with a tiny mini-app too, again not much more than a shell script. And then I used that shell script mini-app to avoid Apple UX fail, and made an absurd profit percentage as a side effect.
Shell script all the things . The web is full of broken. Fixing even the little problems can accidentally net you huge profits.
- A Fresh Cup: Double Shot #830
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* The Web Performance Today podcasts talks CDNs with guest Aaron Peters.
* Adams Wiggins, CTO and Co-Founder of Heroku, publishes an extensive FAQ on routing and web performance on Heroku.
* Anselm Hannemann describes why he uses a CDN for static files on GitHub.
* Harry Roberts has a few tips for designers and developers to make their frontends even faster .
* Joshua Bixby wonders why eCommerce sites are slower than …
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The Web Transactions Page
The Web Transactions page shows you where the app spends most of its time and effort, and causes the most user dissatisfaction. Its also where you can find overview details about a type of transaction, as well as specific recorded slow transactions including HTTP parameters, an execution waterfall graph and details about slow SQL queries.
On this page, the number one under-used feature is the Sort Order dropdown. There we show you the transactions …
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The web is ripe with YouTube videos and forum posts complaining about this, but not too many solutions. The solution I found is actually pretty simple and makes sense. If you look closely at the charging orb, you'll likely see a lot of grime and gunk that is being attached to those rubberized magnets. In the case of my desk, a cat is to blame mostly.
A little bit of saliva and a finger to de-hair and gunk the Nexus 4 charger and it's back to holding the device just like …
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- Luigi Montanez: Fourteen Android Phones in the US since the iPhone 3GS
- igvita.com: Latency: The New Web Performance Bottleneck
The web view approach isn't right for every app. For Basecamp, we were able to build on the existing infrastructure we had with the mobile views, and make a stunning native wrapper for that content. The pain of dealing with UIWebView's idiosyncrasies might not be worth it if you're used to rendering content natively and dealing with the consequences.
We drew the line where we could ship an app that has a great, native feel and still be able to quickly modify how the data …
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- Luke Redpath: OAuth2 for iPhone and iPad applications
The Web is Awesome
At ZURB, we're obviously huge fans of the Web, but just think about this for a second. The Web is probably the single greatest advantage and equalizer seen in the world in the last century, and we're all lucky enough to work on it and help it improve and grow.
Foundation was developed in large part so that we could do something to make the Web even more awesome. We wanted to help you make great sites and products that move the Web forward in the way we're …
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…KnockoutJS - Part 4 we had a very modular browser-side rich web app. As you will see we'll be able to adapt the code to "make it fit" with the PhoneGap and jQuery Mobile framework. At a high-level we will need to:
adapt our views to fit mobile device dimensions
enhance our view markup with jQuery Mobile attributes (e.g.: data-role, etc.)
Installing The Web Ver
- DevInterface Blog: How to insert more Disqus comments box in a single page
- ZURB: Our Joyride jQuery Plugin Gets an Overhaul
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- Simone Carletti's Blog: Book Review: Learning jQuery 1.3
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Step 4 - The Web Site
Viget's home turf. Designer Mark Steinruck , UXers Jason Toth and Lance Gutin , and again the almighty front-end developer Nate came together to make a festive, easy, and fun-to-use site. We leveraged the Dropcam already set up at each office to let users watch each Jinglebot right on the sight, and displayed a running list of the most recent messages as well as aggregate stats on the bots and messages.
Messages …
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- Heroku: Experimental node.js Support
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: Node.js beginner links
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: What Are Events, Why Might You Care, and How Can EventMachine Help?
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: Rails Deployments
Step 4 - The Web Site
Viget's home turf. Designer Mark Steinruck , UXers Jason Toth and Lance Gutin , and again the almighty front-end developer Nate came together to make a festive, easy, and fun-to-use site. We leveraged the Dropcam already set up at each office to let users watch each Jinglebot right on the sight, and displayed a running list of the most recent messages as well as aggregate stats on the bots and messages.
Messages …
- Engine Yard Developer Blog: What Are Events, Why Might You Care, and How Can EventMachine Help?
- Heroku: Experimental node.js Support
- Alex R. Young : The Open Tsunami
- blog.webandy.com | Andy Atkinson: Rails Deployments
- Labnotes: 2011 is year of the Server-Side JavaScript
- Axon Flux // A Ruby on Rails Blog: Node.js beginner links
It's not a coincidence that this WWW is the one which flourished after the collapse of the first dot-com boom, nor is it a coincidence that this is the WWW which birthed Rails. Nothing made the Web a better, more idealistic, …
- interblah.net: twitter-and-the-federated-web
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