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Scroll Depth – A Google Analytics plugin for measuring page scrolling
Scroll Depth is a small Google Analytics plugin that allows you to measure how far down the page your users are scrolling. It monitors the 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100% scroll points, sending a Google Analytics Event at each one. You can also track when specific elements on the page are scrolled into view. On …
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Birds on the Wires
Looking back on “Look Back” videos
The Facebook Engineering Team, on how they catered their infrastructure to support the “Look Back” videos which popped up early February: To plan for even more load, we began with some educated guesses, put them through some back-of-the-envelope math, and decided to plan for 25 million videos shared within a day of the anniversary. We …
Urban Jungle Street View
XCode: Quick Look for UIViews
Xcode 5.0 introduced an interesting new feature: Quick Look for variables. Basically, it lets you inspect variables and their contents in a graphical way. Xcode 5.1 improves the feature even further with the addition of debugQuickLookObject. This method allows you to provide quick look content for any of your own classes. A bit like debugDescription …
Device-Agnostic
Trent Walton on the term Device-Agnostic: Like cars designed to perform in extreme heat or on icy roads, websites should be built to face the reality of the web’s inherent variability. In my mind this approach addresses the following from the beginning: Hostile browsers, Tiny screens, Slow connection speeds, and Touch inputs Long story short, …
Europe 24 – European Air Traffic Visualized
The Shape of your Notes
The Shape of your Notes is a blogpost/project right up my alley. It starts of talking about note taking, but then quickly transforms into a journey into geodata: isolines, GDAL, PostGIS, QGIS, etc. The result is a lovely notebook, with a neat – and correct – print of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajökull on the cover. The Shape …