June, 2013

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Why we need responsive images

Tim Kadlec

The topic of responsive images has been one of the most hotly debated topics amongst web developers for what feels like forever. I think Jason Grigsby was perhaps the first to publicly point out that simply setting a percentage width on images was not enough, you needed to resize these images as well. He showed that if you served appropriately sized images on the original responsive demo site, you could shave 78% off the weight of those images (about 162kB) on small screens.

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Debt, Fear & Demographics: The Ingredients of Stagnation

The Agile Manager

You developed a simple tool for individuals and small groups. You never imagined it would be a runaway hit. Revenue poured in, would-be investors called constantly, The Wall Street Journal ran features on you twice, marketing chiefs from a dozen S&P 100 firms wanted you in workshops to figure out how to "partner", and your founder was presenting keynotes and on panels every few weeks.

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SpeedCurve launches at Velocity Conf

Speed Curve

SpeedCurve is now in beta. Sign up, check it out and then vote for the features you'd like to see. A huge thanks Steve Souders for encouraging me to build SpeedCurve and introducing it at Velocity Conference 2013.

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8 Months in Mozilla

O'Reilly Software

Besides 3 months interrupted to finish degree requirements, and including an internship, I’ve been at Mozilla for about 8 months now. After reading a blog post of another software engineer’s experience at Microsoft, I count my blessings. Reading that article set off too many alarms in my head. It was well written, and I sugguest you go read it, but my takeaway was that that any big name corporation people dream about working at is actually quite dystopian, and I do not feel that that is the case

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Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide.

All Things Distributed

'All Things Distributed. Werner Vogels weblog on building scalable and robust distributed systems. Back-to-Basics Weekend Reading - Auctions and bidding: A guide for computer scientists. By Werner Vogels on 08 June 2013 06:00 PM. | Permalink. | Comments (). I have just returned from the AWS Summits in New Zealand and Japan, which were both very well attended and, according to the feedback, very successful.

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