RT @jennirsl: excellent editorial on why Hunt memo is a smoking gun - Hunt biased, PM knew it, News Corp had secret plan ...

Init RT @ngaireackerley: What about the girl developers!! RT @DesignerDepot: 7 Personality Types of Developers Today

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be

5 weeks of the google vs oracle case must have been somewhat boring for the jury 'here's some code etc'

via @guardian

Like how utterly fucked Hunt is leading up to his #leveson appearance. Even resigning wont really help now ”

Oh balcony blanket how I have missed thee

iKnight, oh I see what you did there….

REPETE @Azrael808 New blog post: Data Recovery using ddrescue HT @turbotastical for the REPETE acronym

RT @wotto76: - New wotto tee. ROBOTS for $13.50 with this code> DBH10 10% off @ checkout.

Last year I wrote about a promising approach to multi-device Web design that enhanced responsive web design techniques with server-side solutions. Since then the idea, which I dubbed RESS (Responsive Web Design with Server Side Components), has been gaining popularity and a number of developers have written about how they're using it. Hopefully these resources are useful to anyone interested in learning more about RESS.

This morning, Ian Hickson emailed the WHATWG mailing list mentioning that a attribute that was currently being discussed on the list (srcset) is now added to the draft of the spec. To understand why this sucks, a little background is needed.

How do we reconcile a pre-parser that wants to know what size image to download ahead of time with an image technique that wants to respond to its environment once the page layout has been calculated?

For designs to be truly responsive, we need to move beyond flexible grids and media queries. John Yuda outlines five building blocks for the future of RWD

If you’re like me and use the margins in books for commentary (‘Interesting idea.’ or ‘The author is insane!’), cross-references (‘see also Book X by M. Malaprop.’), and comparisons (e.g. ‘cf. p.58.’), then you might also share my frustration: In many, if not most books, the margins are just too small.

Last year The Boston Globe suddenly shed its old media reputation by launching what’s been called the world’s best-designed news website. We spoke to the Globe’s Digital Design Director, Miranda Mulligan, about design’s role in web journalism.

RT @Codebreu: Webkit now has CSS Variables

Sure, Path 2.0 design is amazing. However, amazing design is not enough. It is like fashion. Everybody is excited about it at the beginning, but then people are getting used to it and eventually it wears out. After it does, the user is left with the essence of the user experience and what Path misses most is a compelling and unique user experience that will make using it worthwhile.

Taxonomy is one of those words that most people never hear or use. Basically, a taxonomy is a way to group things together. In WordPress, a “taxonomy” is a grouping mechanism for some posts (or links or custom post types). WordPress 3 has introduced the ability to create custom hierarchical taxonomies, and due also to the addition of Custom Post Types the usefulness of custom taxonomies has increased.

nice trick @adobe and @guardian but this scared the bejesus out of me when it first happened

People appreciate mobile apps that feel as though they were designed expressly for the device. For example, when an app fits well on the device screen and responds to the gestures that people know, it provides much of the experience people are looking for. And, although people might not be aware of human interface design principles, such as direct manipulation or consistency, they can tell when apps follow them and when they don’t.

RT @ryancarson: I’m tired of the opportunists and their hackathons

Kind of odd watching Chelsea win Cup last night at about 11 then see it in real life a few hours later

RT @felix_cohen: OK first post up on my new cocktail blog, The Manhattans Project. On the Pina Colada.

No, really.

Man clean

RT @Azrael808: RT @imranaziz Shortlist: Innovation in enterprise via @guardian , Vote for RPC :) <<proud to h ...

inordinately excited by this via @ellenbwestcott

@ewebber progression of haters gonna hate

RT @codepo8: Github Octocat in SVG:

@twategy_inc @timd @eliotf @moooosic nice start re: QR code - just went to take a look

RT @wphooked: Our website is live!

amazing infoviz on how common birth dates are

Choices

@removabletype I think there is a an importer

RT @shadowrobot: New Website launched () New content, check it out and feedback. Revamp done by our new WebGuy #goodjob

The Blessing. Fragmentation allows users to take their pick from thousands of devices. You can choose from phones with 3D screens, projectors, CDMA, GSM, or even CDMA & GSM. You may not care that Tag Heuer has made an Android phone but at least one person does (and they use OpenSignalMaps). It's a triumph for Android that as a single OS it can target so many markets.

The Curse. The proliferation of devices with their associated screen sizes, internal hardware and custom ROMs creates some difficulties. We spend a lot of time making the app presentable (or at less functional) on exotic devices - this is the most common request we get from app users.

The Study. Over the past 6 months we've been logging the new devices that download OpenSignalMaps, we've based this study on 681,900 of these devices. We've looked at model, brand, API level (i.e. the version of Android) and screen size and we've tried to present this in the clearest form we can.

Sid, some tips @The_Shed

RT @inkbase: You know shit's going down when @alistapart has to do a special issue:

RT @sidekickstudios: SidekickSchool+CarersUK project weeknotes #2: who are you calling a carer?

interactive animated gif ftw

I've never read a better case study for Responsive Web Design 'Why Publishers Don't Like Apps'

You don’t want to be that person who is known for conducting boring or pointless meetings right? You know those people…you dread going to their meeting because nothing meaningful ever gets accomplished. Or it takes two hours to get anything figured out. They’re those people who hold meetings to feel important…at least that’s how they’re perceived. You never want to fall into that category. Most meetings are boring, only semi-productive, and are often held for self-serving purposes of the person who called the meeting. And how many times have you sat down to a meeting only to find it’s a meeting about when to meet?!?

As many stated before me: “A good WordPress citizen only loads their files where they’re needed”. This principle applies both to front-end and back-end (admin). There’s no justification for loading CSS and JS files on every admin page when you only need them on one single page you created. Thankfully doing things the right way is only one function call away.

As I become more engulfed in the ways of Agile I will continue to share my experiences, frustrations, questions, and ah ha moments. I welcome any and all feedback from the CSMs of the world, as well as thoughts from other newbies.

@adamcbrewer @stugoo personally,

@inky_ninja @folletto dude, I mean srsly, look, I am terrified now

'web actions are verbs', great post about actions across domains, via @t

dreamy gopher

my gopher character is coming along

It's a gopher

Over the past four months, I've been using Omnigraffle as my go-to diagramming app. During that time, I've collected a small set of tricks that make wireframing and diagramming easier.

If you're a grizzled 'graffle veteran or someone who reads manuals, some of these might be old hat. But maybe not – so check them out. If you've got any of your own, post them in the comments.

Chances are, you're going to want to execute some code based on media queries in your snazzy responsive layout. At Springload we started by doing this with the window.matchMedia() function. It worked pretty well, but it always felt a bit, well.. inelegant. The problem was, we had to set our media queries in our Javascript as well as in our CSS files. This made our geeky department very nervous, so we struck out in search of a better, simpler way that didn't keep our developers up at night in a pool of cold sweat.

I present to you the cornerstone of my book collection on UX: 16 highly recommended books on User Experience by UX professionals. If you are looking for books about user research, interface design, information architecture or UX strategy, you will find a book to your liking.

In our last post we announced Octicons, our new icon font. We put a lot of work into the font and gained a lot of knowledge in the process. With five different designers working to make it happen, this was one of our bigger collaborations. We thought we'd detail how we built Octicons and what we learned along the way.

wow, @khoi's post on letterset took me back, amazing to think this was the process for setting type not that long ago

RT @whatterz: It exists! MIT creates tech for moving files across devices with a swipe #mobile #MIT

the other way of looking at the non-publishing of the NHS risk register is that MPs might not pass high risk bills

RT @benwerd: The NHS risk register has been leaked: /via @sarahdal

You’re doing the one thing you want to do and you do it well, and you know you do it well, and you’re happy. The whole promise is to do the work, sitting down at a drawing table, turning on the radio. And I think, “what a transcendent life this is that I’m doing everything I want to do.”

I think what I’ve offered was different. But not because I drew better than anybody, or wrote better than anybody, but because I was more honest than anybody. And in the discussion of children, and the lives of children, and the fantasies of children, and the language of children, I said anything I wanted, because I don’t believe in children. I don’t believe in childhood. I don’t believe there’s a demarcation of “you mustn’t tell them this, you mustn’t tell them that.” You tell them anything you want. Just tell them if it’s true. If it’s true, you tell them.

There are number of nasty traps to avoid when making your site responsive. Brad Frost of R/GA reveals five of the biggest ones and how to sidestep them

ooooooo, responsive browser….

Users obtain information on the web in one of two ways: searching or browsing. Browsing – moving through a multi-faceted content structure – is made easier when information architects present users with an intuitive navigation hierarchy. This article discusses two techniques to that end.

Have a mission that matters
Think big but start small
Strive for continual innovation, not instant perfection
Look for ideas everywhere
Share everything
Spark with imagination, fuel with data
Be a platform
Never fail to fail

I hate time sheets. They force you to stop thinking. “Listen up! You have 7 hours to complete this assignment. After that, ‘Pencils down!” But creative people aren’t wired that way.

One big change change driven by starting to build earlier is that of condensing up-front design work down to Just Enough. In other words, we go from doing a lot of analyzing and creating a lot of documents, sometimes for months, to committing to start delivering some kernel of the real product within weeks of project inception.

I just joined @Fitocracy, the game you play to improve your fitness. Come join me and level up your life!

Personally I would use gCal or something. Has the government really missed another deadline? #nhs

via @guardian

Oh Boris. Maybe 'foreigners' are better qualified esp in an open European job market.
via @guardian
via @guardian

pretty well balanced article on knowing how user research should inform not define projects by @andybudd

RT @davegray: #gamestorming cheat sheet by @brynn #vizthink #innochat #lrnchat

Went to the London aquarium today. It was awesome

Always a good sight at the beginning of an event #BBCconnected

Northward bound

RT @globalmoxie: 28% of US mobile web users never or rarely use desktop web. That’s 11% of US adults. #FILive

RT @pamasaur: Davis.js. Kinda like Sinatra in JavaScript.

I don't even #drunkmps #olivetrees #shrubbery