September 2009
93 posts
The Only SEO Tools You’ll Ever Need →
Search Engine Optimization is a rather complex and never ending process. You have to analyze a lot of things including what keywords people are searching for, the density of those keywords in your…
mir.aculo.us with Thomas Fuchs » Blog Archive »... →
Domain-driven design: tackling complexity in the... →
VIDEO: I gave a talk on "UI Fundamentals for... →
I gave a talk on “UI Fundamentals for Programmers” at WindyCityRails in Chicago last month. The talks covered modeling, breaking apps into screens, visual techniques, flows, and a few…
openstreetmap genuine advantage →
openstreetmap genuine advantage. The OpenStreetMap data model (points, ways and relations, all allowing arbitrary key/value tags) is a real thing of beauty—simple to understand but almost…
Back to Basics: What's in a profile setting? →
A little known link in your Analytics account is the key to unlocking extra ecommerce functionality in your Google Analytics account. In this post, we’ll show you how clicking the ‘Edit’ link in…
Cappuccino is a Push over →
Elias Klughammer has implemented the Juggernaut push server in a Cappuccino app.
Always nice to have an open source bare bones sample app for a marriage like this. Nothing beats …
Changing the short username in Leopard | Mac OS X... →
Five Best Twitter Clients [Hive Five] →
Twitter has risen to prominence as the most popular place to share your thoughts in short snippets. If you’re underwhelmed with the Twitter web site and looking for more features, you’ll…
Fall In Love With Motion Charts →
Have you used Motion Charts yet? If not, it’s a little like playing an instrument. It takes a little practice, but once you get the hang of it, it’s the best thing you ever did - fun and…
Content Aware Image Resizing… in JavaScript →
Content aware image resizing is a nifty technique where you can make an image smaller by literally understanding the content better and remapping it.
Stéphane Roucheray has put…
More technical details about Google Chrome Frame →
More technical details about Google Chrome Frame. It’s implemented as a Browser Helper Object, uses IE’s cookies, history and password-remembering, includes the WebKit developer tools and appends…
cssmin.js →
cssmin.js is JavaScript port of YUICompressor’s CSS minifier.
The motivation
Minifying CSS helps reduce file sizes and makes your pages faster and your users happier. YUICompressor is cool but is…
10 Useful Usability Findings and Guidelines →
Everyone would agree that usability is an important aspect of Web design. Whether you’re working on a portfolio website, online store or Web app, making…
Event Tracking Overview - Google Analytics -... →
Accessibility Black Hole →
Looks like the aforementioned Chrome Frame isn’t all rainbows and unicorns. The internet once again confirms, reality is the greatest killjoy. (via) ●
Spotless information page →
The Definitive Guide to a Minimalist Mac Setup →
A minimalist Mac setup is lightweight, lean, uncluttered, with simple apps.
As a result, things run at a blazing speed, without bloated applications to slow things down. Work is frictionless, and…
Quickly Scan Your Gmail Spam for Missed Messages... →
Gmail’s spam filter is good, but not perfect. If you’ve got a sneaking suspicion there might be a false positive, shoulda-seen-it email trapped in your Spam bin, the Digital Inspiration blog…
Introducing Google Chrome Frame →
Today, we’re releasing an early version of Google Chrome Frame, an open source plug-in that brings HTML5 and other open web technologies to Internet Explorer.
We’re building Google Chrome Frame…
SlipCover: Cases Made Easy →
Keeping media on your computer has some great benefits. Watching movies directly from your hard drive saves battery life. DVDs scratch easily, so backing up lets you have some peace of mind.
Now…
The League of Moveable Type →
Google does not use the keywords meta tag in web... →
Recently we received some questions about how Google uses (or more accurately, doesn’t use) the “keywords” meta tag in ranking web search results. Suppose you have two website owners, Alice and Bob….
How To Correct Banding In Your Gradients Using... →
“It’s true… I’m a rageaholic! I just can’t live without rageahol!”
– Home Simpson
New Analytics API Features including Event... →
We are excited to be releasing new features — features that have been prioritized based on feedback from you. Event Tracking Get Excited! Event Tracking, our number-one feature request, is…
YouTube Resume →
YouTube added a cool feature for those who watch long-form videos. If you’re logged in, you watched at least one minute from a video that’s longer than 20 minutes and there are more than 3 minutes…
WatchAnother Cloud Reel… on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
New Video: What is the Analytics API? →
I spent a day in Irvine, California interviewing some of the software engineers who built the Google Analytics API, starting with Jacob Matthews, the tech lead behind the API. If you…
Roundup of Font Embedding and Replacement... →
Zoe Mickley Gillenwater, author of the most excellent Flexible Web Design: Creating Liquid and Elastic Layouts with CSS on the current options for web fonts.
Published in External links.
10 Insightful Uses of Google Webmasters Tool →
Have you been using Google Webmasters Tool ? If you’re serious about your site’s general health, I very much recommend using it. But its also a fact that its an “ignorable tool”,…
WebKit Page Cache I – The Basics →
This is the first of two posts that will center around a modern browser engine feature that doesn’t usually get a lot of press: The Page Cache.
Today I’ll talk a bit about what this feature is, why…
