Monthly Archives: October 2010

“All the AdWords in the world are not going to save you if no one’s looking for what you’re making,”. Instead, what worked for Dropbox was “making our users really really happy, and then giving them good tools to spread … Continue reading →

Compare the JS behind this to the JS behind that and tell me I’m not seeing thigs.

“Zepto.js is a minimalist inlinable framework for mobile WebKit browsers, with a jQuery-like chaining syntax.” — I like the bigger picture behind this: don’t include a full jQuery on a mobile site but go back to basics and serve visitors … Continue reading →

“Allied forces initially tried conventional intelligence gathering: spying, intercepting and decoding transmissions and interrogating captured enemies. Using these methods, the Allies deduced that the German military industrial complex churned out around 1,400 tanks each month from June 1940 through September … Continue reading →

In order to prevent doomsday scenarios like “Why. The fuck. Did you put the website into production. Using the test database?”, a list on how to make the systems guy love you.

Fo’ shizzle my nizzle, we be drizzle!

jQuery 1.4.3, including some nice improvements, landed this weekend.

“In short: performance.” — Be sure to watch that reflow video if you haven’t seen it already. Also sports a great example that uses PHP’s flush(); and sleep(); in order to mimic slow loading (and let us see what the … Continue reading →

Seaquence is an experimental musical eco-system. Be sure to check the demo video

Remember Arade Fire’s The Wilderniss Downtown? Here’s how they did it (in addition to the info posted on Chrome Experiments)