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Touch Design For Mobile Interfaces: Defining Mobile Devices (Excerpt)

Smashing Magazine

Usually today this means internet connectivity, cameras, GPS, and so on, but they are distinct from smartphones.) With the majority of Internet access via mobiles, in just another decade almost everyone will use touch as their primary interaction method, worldwide. Feature phones are mobile phones with extra features.

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Web Performance Bookshelf

Rigor

Master the many facets of delivering high performance images on the internet—without adversely affecting site performance. This book from 2002 is a brilliant must read: site architecture, security, reliability, and their impact on performance. High Performance Images. Progressive Web Apps Dean. Professional Website Performance.

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The Back-to-Basics Readings of 2012 - All Things Distributed

All Things Distributed

Johnson, ACM Computing Surveys (CSUR) Surveys Volume 34 Issue 3, September 2002. Aug 17 - SEDA: An Architecture for Well-Conditioned, Scalable Internet Services , Matt Welsh, David Culler, and Eric Brewer. Feb 11 - A Survey of Rollback-Recovery Protocols in Message-Passing Systems , E. Araújo, K. RFC 1498, August 1993.

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What Adrian Did Next?—?Part 2?—?Sun Microsystems

Adrian Cockcroft

I’d been using the Internet since about 1984, for email and newsgroups, sharing files like my white papers via ftp sites, but in the early 1990’s the world wide web came along, and Sun was a very early adopter. Later on after some re-orgs we ended up reporting to Greg Papadopoulos, who was CTO of the server organization at the time.

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World’s Top Web Performance Leaders To Watch

Rigor

All together, she has written 23 books as a solo or co-author since 2002. She is the author of a number of books, including Get Ready for CSS Grid Layout , The New CSS Layout , and The Profitable Side Project. Rachel is also one of the people behind Perch , a PHP content management system (CMS).

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Jamstack CMS: The Past, The Present and The Future

Smashing Magazine

I had my website with funny photos and links to favorite websites live on the internet, and better yet, I could edit directly on the server. It’s safe to say WordPress, the platform now powering 40% of the internet, won that battle, but MovableType paved the way for Jamstack CMSs in the future. released 2002 ( Large preview ).

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