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Responsive web design from the future
Responsive web design is about a lot more than the size of your screen. This talk is about about how GitHub handles links, the url bar, partial page updates, and explains why I think the HTML5 history API is the most important thing to happen to front end development since Firebug. Responsive web design from …
jQuery Mobile: State of the Framework
At this fall’s jQuery Conference in Boston, MA, Filament Group’s Todd Parker and Scott Jehl presented the jQuery Mobile Framework keynote. The session covered the current state of the project, an overview of the releases since the first alpha last fall, direction for how best to make use of the framework today, and some upcoming …
Slides from Responsive & Responsible
The Boston Globe is one of the first major sites to implement responsive design at a large scale, and this presentation covered many of the challenges and solutions we encountered during that development process. Very, very, very interesting stuff! Slides from Responsive & Responsible, Scott Jehl, Breaking Dev 2011 →More on The Boston Globe Redesign …
Security/Data Vulnerability of the day: HTC Android
Regarding HTC Android Devices (EVO 3D, 4G, Thunderbolt, Others): In recent updates to some of its devices, HTC introduces a suite of logging tools that collected information. Lots of information. Currently, any app that requests a single android.permission.INTERNET (which is normal for any app that connects to the web or shows ads) can get its …
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Sharding & IDs at Instagram
With more than 25 photos & 90 likes every second, we store a lot of data here at Instagram. To make sure all of our important data fits into memory and is available quickly for our users, we’ve begun to shard our data—in other words, place the data in many smaller buckets, each holding a …