by Kristofer Layon July 31, 2012 Published in Business, Project Management, Web Strategy, User Research ∙ Whether we prototype, write, design, develop, or test as part of building the web, we’re creating something hundreds, thousands, or maybe even millions of people will use. But how do we know…

Mountain Lion’s New File System Essay 25 July 2012 Apple has been working on its file system and with iOS it had almost killed the concept of folders—before reintroducing them with a peculiar restriction: only one level! With Mountain Lion it brings its one folder level logic to OSX. What could be…

One problem with all those stories about Apple and how Apple sweats every tiny detail of every app, product and website ever delivered is that some misconceptions of reality are stuck in our heads. Of course it’s important to think about details, to change things dozens of times, to test, to…

The ongoing flap over Sparrow’s sale to Google shows just how skewed the indie development scene has become. As Rene Ritchie points out, there is plenty of self-entitlement to go around on both sides of the equation: Developers who think they are gifting their precious code upon the world go…

So I downloaded Rovio's Angry Birds Space yesterday. The franchise has all the makings of a shark jumping moment — a successful run at the top of the app charts for over a year, three Angry Birds games, plush toys, a recent sag in the charts and a new game release that features a purple vortex…

by Paul Burton March 27, 2012 Published in Graphic Design, Creativity ∙ As web designers, we are often confronted with the argument that the work we do isn’t “really art” because the constraints within which we most frequently work are labeled “commercial.” Yet the solutions we create, at least the…

One of my favorite Apple product announcements happened on September 7, 2005 . In an Apple music event announcement, Steve Jobs got on stage, gave the usual state of the business update, and then he did something I’d never seen before. He killed a wildly successful product. The iPod Mini was one of…

Am vergangenen Sonntag wurde in der Wiener Innenstadt der europäische Hitzerekord gemessen: 37,7 Grad. Nirgendwo sonst kletterte an diesem Tag das Thermometer so hoch. Wieder einer dieser Superlative für die Ranking-Königin unter den Metropolen! Tatsächlich, an manchem heißen Sommerwochenende kann…

Home Products Order Contact Gallery Copyright © 2004 Ron Avitzur. Pacific Tech's Graphing Calculator has a long history. I began the work in 1985 while in school. Thatbecame Milo , and later became part of FrameMaker . Over the last twenty years, many peoplehave contributed to it. Graphing…

by Mat Marquis May 15, 2012 Published in HTML, State of the Web, Responsive Design ∙ The goal of a “responsive images” solution is to deliver images optimized for the end user’s context, rather than serving the largest potentially necessary image to everyone. Unfortunately, this hasn’t been quite so…

by Nick Disabato May 22, 2012 Published in Business, State of the Web ∙ A note from the editors: This is the second part in a two-part essay about digital publishing. You can read part 1, “The Fragmented Present,” here. It’s never been a better time to be a reader. We’re partly defined by the things…

by Nick Disabato May 22, 2012 Published in Business, State of the Web ∙ Since technically we all work in publishing, it makes sense to turn our collective attention to the technical and logistic challenges of ebooks. They are a new frontier, but it looks a lot like the old web frontier, with HTML,…

by Nellie McKesson June 12, 2012 Published in CSS, Typography & Web Fonts, Workflow & Tools ∙ While historically, it’s been difficult at best to create print-quality PDF books from markup alone, CSS3 now brings the Paged Media Module, which targets print book formatting. “Paged” media exists as…

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to:, This article has multiple issues. Please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . This article may be too technical for most readers to understand . Please help improve this article to make it understandable to non-experts , without…

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CSS Downloads by Media Query A test by @scottjehl The point of this page is to test whether today's browsers will download stylesheets that are referenced with media queries that would not apply on that browser or device. This page contains 10 link elements that reference CSS files meant for…

by Rachel Lovinger April 24, 2012 Published in Content Strategy ∙ Five years ago I wrote Content Strategy: The Philosophy of Data to encourage people to think more deeply about content and how they use it. Since then, the population of people focusing their wonderful brains on the content conundrum…

by Rachel Lovinger April 24, 2012 Published in Content Strategy ∙ In “Tinker, Tailor, Content Strategist,” which runs concurrently in this issue, I asked you about content strategy master skills, which hardly seems fair if I don’t share one of my own favorites. More and more I find that the content…

20 April, 2012 My HTML/CSS coding style N.B. This post is almost completely out of date now; please refer to my CSSGuidelines for more up-to-date information. Whenever I post jsFiddles, tutorials, articles or do some work here at Sky, I’m very particular about my coding style and am often asked…

by Jonathan Smiley April 10, 2012 Published in Browsers, CSS, HTML, Mobile/Multidevice, Responsive Design ∙ There are hundreds of devices out there right now that can access the full web, as Steve Jobs once put it. These devices come with different capabilities and constraints, things like input…

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Published on June 29th, 2009 by Jean . cURL, and its PHP extension libcURL, are tools which can be used to simulate a web browser. In fact, it can for example, submit forms. In this article, I’m going to show you 10 incredible things that you can do using PHP and cURL. Acknowledgments New to cURL?…