jQuery Mobile Enters the Beta Stage

June 21st, 2011 No Comments

I’ve been using the alpha versions and it was great although clearly unfinished but the beta should be great. Let me know if you use it by sending me a message on Twitter @tkenny. Would be interesting to see it in action.

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Google to Discontinue Support for IE7 in Google Apps

June 21st, 2011 No Comments

Agressive but good for the industry.

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Performance is a Feature

June 21st, 2011 No Comments

We’ve always put a heavy emphasis on performance at Stack Overflow and Stack Exchange. Not just because we’re performance wonks (guilty!), but because we think speed is a competitive advantage. There’s plenty of experimental data proving that the slower your website loads and displays, the less people will use it.

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Adobe Contributing to Webkit?

June 13th, 2011 No Comments

Turns out when Adobe stops pouting about no one using Flash, they can still do some pretty interesting stuff.

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The Twitter Follow Button

June 1st, 2011 No Comments

Twitter have given you the ability to place a follow button on your site. If someone is signed into Twitter and not following you, they can follow you without going to your Twitter page to do so. Best to place it above or below your Twitter stream on your site (such as on the right hand side on Inspect Element) so potential followers can still see if you’re worth following from your latest updates.


I still can’t believe it’s taken this long though but pleased it’s finally here.

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CSS Layer Styles

May 11th, 2011 No Comments

Felix Niklas has created a web app replicating a few of the layer styles we’re familiar with in Photoshop with the addition of border radius but it outputs actual CSS code. It makes you wonder why graphic editor app developers haven’t created something similar. Also, for a long while I’ve hoped Adobe would add border radius as a layer style in the exact same way. How hard can it be?

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Subtle Patterns

May 3rd, 2011 No Comments

A simple collection of nice subtle patterns for you to use in your designs. Make sure you scroll to the bottom and download the Photoshop pattern file.

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