March, 2014

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Why RWD looks like RWD

Tim Kadlec

This morning, Mark Boulton wondered aloud on Twitter about why responsive design “looks” like responsive design: I wonder if #RWD looks the way it does because so many projects aren’t being run by designers, but by front-end dev teams. This certainly isn’t the first time that someone has suggested that responsive sites have a “look” to them. In fact, it seems that particular topic has been quite popular over the last few years.

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Write a Test Case

Nick Desaulniers

Your application just broke, oh no! It couldn’t have been your code, right? I’ve always had trouble spotting mistakes in my own work such as spelling, grammar, mathematical, or even in programming. With spelling or grammar, office applications quickly pick up on my mistakes and underline them for me, but most of my mistakes come from my own hubris.

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IE11 and average speed update

Speed Curve

To keep inline with browser trends and average connection speeds SpeedCurve will begin updating the test setting every quarter. For Q2 2014 we're switching to IE11 which is now the most popular version of IE according to Akamai and StatsCounter and the average connection speed has been updated to 9.8Mbps download, 2.5Mbps upload with a 10ms latency.

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Knowledge Versus Wage Work in Software Development

The Agile Manager

"Increasing numbers of people who had formerly been self-employed in workshops and cottage industry, often on a subcontracting basis, assumed new roles as part of an emerging wage-earning class. Labor increasingly became viewed as a commodity to be bought and sold. And since these changes eliminated earlier systems of production, for the new wage earners the process was irreversible, making them dependent on the wage system." -- Gareth Morgan, Images of Organization The separation of design from