All Things Distributed

DECEMBER 23, 2013

'This year I have not been able to publish many back-to-basics readings, so I will not close the year with a recap of those. Instead I have a video of a wonderful presentation by Butler Lampson where he talks about the learnings of the past decades that helped him to update his excellent 1983 " Hints for computer system design ". The presentation was part of the Heidelberg Laureate Forum helt in September of this year.

Design 127

Design Systems 127

Speed Curve

DECEMBER 25, 2013

The following article was originally published in the 2013 Performance Calendar. There's 31 great articles to explore in the calendar including Steve Souders's browser wishlist and Tim Kadlec's take on what it takes to create a performance culture. -. Responsive Web Design (RWD) is now a well established technique yet it’s adoption is still surprisingly low.

Performance 60

Performance Mobile Website Benchmarking 60

The Agile Manager

DECEMBER 31, 2013

"Much complexity has been deliberately created, to encourage consumers to pay more than they need, or expected." John Kay, The Wrong Sort of Competition in Energy Modern software assets are complex in both their technical composition and their means of creation. They are built with multiple programming languages, are expected to conform to OO standards and SOA principles, make use of automated tests and a progressive build pipeline, require a diverse set of skills (UX, developers, QA analysts,

Energy 45

Energy Technology Technology Virtualization 45

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Everyone knows the dream. You go to school/work/some other public setting and everyone starts laughing at you. Horrified, you realize you’ve forgotten to put on your pants that day. Then the therapy sessions start. It’s a common dream because it plays off a very common fear: that of being exposed. Of having nothing to hide (both metaphorically, and in the dream, anatomically).

Technology 45

Technology Technology Development 45

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 29, 2013

This is a tough year for me to list my top three non-fiction and fiction books because there were a lot of really good ones—particularly in fiction. The fact that there were so many great books probably contributes to why I was able to reverse the downward trend in my book count the past few years. That being said, for fiction I’d have probably have to rank Lexicon , Dust and Ocean at the End of the Lane as my top three.

Mobile 40

Mobile Programming Design Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 26, 2013

Time for the long-running (since way back in 2012 !) annual tradition of listing the top five most popular posts on this site of the past year. Here are 2013’s favorites, in order of popularity. Why We Need Responsive Images. The responsive image discussion is the Never Ending Story of web technology. Some people were, understandably, getting frustrated and questioning whether it was worth the fuss so I decided to see how much page weight could be saved by serving appropriately sized images to s

Media 40

Media Design Technology Technology 40

Tim Kadlec

DECEMBER 17, 2013

I’ve been talking a lot over the past year or so about the importance of moving performance beyond something that is seen as a “developer task” I was really happy that Stoyan Stefanov let me expand on that for this year’s (excellent!) edition of the Performance Calendar : Bad performance online is not a technological problem; it’s a cultural one.

Performance 40

Performance Technology Technology Code 40