The Three-?-stick
Posted by Michael Gaigg
The Three-?-stick is going around ... and and so it came around. Björn from the Webzeugkoffer (excellent webdesign blog in German) picked up the stick by answering 3 questions that I will answer now too:
The three questions
Which Editor do you use for (X)HTML and CSS?
I'm using Macromedia Dreamweaver. I'm still stuck at MX 2004, but I really got used to the color coding and other superficial things - it's like toothpaste, once you are hooked you'll never change again (don't ask for the trade pls).
...and notepad 
Which little tool became a true time saver for you?
Can't live without Firebug - seriously, can't live without it. That's not a little tool? Ok, what about ColorSet, love that also.
Flash - what do you think of that technology?
Call me a purist, but I'm really into DHTML. Unless somebody convinces me otherwise I can do what I need to do with HTML a JavaScript library like jQuery, Dojo, YUI or even the Facebook JavaScript Library.
I disliked flash when it got into 'mode' a century ago and still think that flash intros should die. Accessibility is still an issue also.
On the flipside our company created a really powerful ArcGIS API for Flex for building Rich Internet applications on top of ArcGIS Server, our internet mapping server. I might need to reconsider some of my previous believes.
I forward the three-?-stick to
- Christian Heilmann, http://www.wait-till-i.com/
- Hannes Schmiderer, http://noox.at/
- Robert Nyman, http://robertnyman.com/
Fast, faster, CloudFront – Speed matters!
Posted by Michael Gaigg
It's clear that speed matters to the users. Page visitors are impatient and nasty, they expect the page to load fast, Google-fast. Peter Da Vanzo from seobook.com suggests that this constant threat of loosing users even justifies to sacrifice graphics and features in lieu of speed.
Yesterday Amazon released their new service called CloudFront which is aimed to enhance network performance (lower latency) through a network of edge location around the world.
Amazon CloudFront locations world-wide: (A) London, UK (B) Frankfurt, Germany (C) Amsterdam, Netherlands (D) Dublin, Ireland (E) Newark, NJ (F) Ashburn, VA (G) Miami, FL (H) Saint Louis, MO (I) Dallas, TX (J) Seattle, WA (K) Palo Alto, CA (L) Los Angeles, CA (M) Hong Kong (N) Tokyo, Japan
Pricing is on a per-per-use basis without minimum fees and might be a really good hosting solution for companies with an international audience who care about their users.
John Resig and his team from jQuery reported large improvements where latency has shrunk to a quarter of the usual times.
Send me your experiences and thoughts!
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Highlights of week 50/2009
Posted by Michael Gaigg
Every day I run into fantastic articles and stumble across hilarious and must-see web sites. I'm amazed how much great content is created and maintained hour by hour, day by day. I wish I had more time to read and learn more, not to mention synthesize and write about it.
That's why I start this weekly thread that will summarize all the goodies & greats - in short: Highlights - of the week so you can skim through them during a spare minute on the weekend or first thing Monday morning.
I try to cover all my basic interests (UCD, Usability, Accessibility, Web development, Code samples, Business, Marketing, Social web, Technical news, Philosophy and whatever else I run into
Feel free to share interesting links and bring special content to my attention - I'd love hearing from you.
So here we go,
Highlights for week 50 of the year 2009