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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. DRM-free, of course. Personal Computer. Get Print + eBook.

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How Improving Website Performance Can Help Save The Planet

Smashing Magazine

You may not think about it often, but the Internet uses a colossal amount of electricity. This, in turn, means that the Internet’s carbon footprint has grown to the point where it may have eclipsed global air travel , and this makes the Internet the largest coal-fired machine on Earth. Do we have a carousel of images?

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Apple Is Not Defending Browser Engine Choice

Alex Russell

Nobody frames it precisely this way; instead they'll say, if WebKit weren't mandated, Chromium would take over , or Google would dominate the web if not for the WebKit restriction. The New York Times reported in late 2020 that Google now pays Apple between $8-12 billion per year , up from $1 billion in 2014. And that's a choice. "WebKit

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To Transform, Trade Ego for Humility

The Agile Manager

Each had come to prominence in the handset market differently: Nokia was a mobile telephony company, Blackberry a mobile email company, Apple a personal technology company, Google an internet search and advertising company. With the benefit of hindsight, we know how it played out. The ways of working are radically different.

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Error Tracking - Top Suggestions and Tools

KeyCDN

The Google DevTools console can give you real-time feedback to help you trace the source of errors, and you can set handlers to automate exception data collection. Source: Google Keep in mind that not all code errors are noticeable to users. Every website or app should provide a way for users to report bugs.

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

Adrian Cockcroft

I had to setup a week of talks by all the relevant product teams, with a hundred or so of the most experienced systems engineers from all over the world as an audience. We had specializations in hardware, operating systems, databases, graphics, etc.

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Open Source Software Security: Is Open Source Software Safe?

Percona

Watch the “Using Open Source Software to Optimize and Troubleshoot Your MySQL Environment” video sessions Open source software powers the Internet. Linux, for example, is the most widely used operating system to run services you use daily. Likewise, Linux and PostgreSQL will almost certainly be around in 10 years.