Archive for April, 2010

The dangers of tweeting your location

Tuesday, April 13th, 2010

Twitter has a new feature that allows users to add location information to their tweets. Of course the feature is turned off by default, so Twitter won’t reveal private information about your whereabouts unless you want it to do so. Those who would like to opt-in will be able to add their location information to [...]

 

Don’t panic when you look at your website’s Page Speed results…

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

When developing a web site, using Page Speed (you know, the Firebug plugin) is quite important, as it can give you advice on how to speed up your website’s download time. When you click the “Analyze Performance” button, it runs numerous tests and warns you about the major and minor issues that could slow down [...]

 

No, I’m not supporting IE6

Thursday, April 8th, 2010

I’d been recently involved in a discussion about Internet Explorer 6. Should us web designers still apply all the tricks and hacks we’ve been using since 2001? My answer is: God no! Since Google stopped supporting IE6 and YouTube followed them as well (no surprise!), IE6 users will suffer every time they want to use [...]

 

Rails vs. PHP web frameworks survey

Wednesday, April 7th, 2010

You might have heard about my dissertation project: I am comparing Ruby on Rails with PHP web frameworks. Reducing need of web design and development professionals has forced them to start using web development frameworks in case they want to survive in an ever-changing environment. There are many solutions to choose from and my project [...]