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Download stats for S3

As jQuery for Designers continued to grow in interest, so did the video downloads. The main problem my server faced was that when a large influx of traffic came in all at once, say if Smashing Magazine publishes a post covering a couple of tutorials, all the apache processes would be busy serving up 30Mb video [...]

Feed of Events via Microformats

A friend and colleague, Chris, has recently launched a gaming network site: Thumbslap which allows friends and the like to organise game meet ups online (or offline if they wish). Pretty early on I could see how Microformats, particularly the hCalendar should be applied, but what Chris really wanted to do the job was an automatic [...]

Screencasting

I've been doing screencasts for jQuery for designers for almost 6 months now, and I'm a big fan of peer learning/teaching - which I hope to achieve through screencasts. I'd like to share some tips that I've come to use in each session I run that might be helpful for budding screencasters. Apologies as I'm [...]

One for the Designers

This one is just for the designers and developer who have the painful task of skinning existing widgets to make them integrate tightly with their applications (or more likely: their employer's app): ThemeRoller.

What is Silverback?

I received a beta invite today to test out the Silverback app from Clearleft. Somehow chosen out of a hat (I know can't be true, because I could never fit in a normal sized hat...unless perhaps if it were a really stretchy beanie...I digress), I've now given it a play and sent my testing [...]

It's not 800x600

This is something that I've been include in my personal projects for some time now, but it's come up again for a client, so I thought I'd share: The optimum browser dimensions are not: 800x600 or even 1024x768. You're close, but wrong. Here's why.

Stop Using OpenID - Why & How

Personally I think that OpenID is the next best thing since sliced bread. I plan to use it on all my personal projects and advocate it whenever I can. However, when I have to explain OpenID, and if they understood, it then raises a foray of debate - which is fine, but I don't want to [...]