July 15, 2011
The last time I redesigned my portfolio was in June of 2007. A little over four years ago…that’s a long time. Since then, a lot has changed in the web sphere. There’s been a larger shift towards the mobile space, the browsers have changed, and my old portfolio was definitely showing its age.
June 14, 2011
In the past I’ve been mostly a Subversion guy when it came to version control, but recently I decided to try Git on a project. After going through an awesome intro guide to Git, I can definitely see the appeal of Git, especially when it comes to small personal projects. Inside are a few cases where I ended up scratching my head trying to clone and pull between a Mac and Windows because the support for Git on Windows isn’t as great on OSX or Linux.
July 23, 2010
Ever since I started moving on from just developing websites to more complex web applications, I’ve learned different ways of optimizing your web application for speed and efficiency. It’s important to keep your web application running snappy, because as LinkedIn has found out: the likeliness at which visitors bounce is directly related to the performance of your web application. Inside you will read about six optimization tips that I commonly apply to my websites and web applications. These tips involve saving on HTTP requests as well as techniques on optimizing code.
February 4, 2009
Did you ever wonder how Google specified an iPhone specific icon for their mobile Gmail Tasks application to your iPhone home screen? It turns out it’s about as simple as applying any regular favicon.
September 2, 2008
Just yesterday, news surfaced that Google was going to release a browser which was being used internally. Now that it’s been released as a beta for Windows as of this moment, how did it do?
August 18, 2008
Just yesterday, I found everystockphoto which is a search engine for free photos. This is a brilliant idea for a search engine as there are free photos on flickr too but searching the photos with those specific creative commons attributes isn’t as easily accessible as everystockphoto provides.