drewmclellan

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by drewmclellan 11y ago
Front-end editing is one of those features that sounds like a good idea, and makes for good demo, but has some fundamental failings. 1) It sets up an expectation for the user that they are editing content on a page, as if they were editing
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by drewmclellan 13y ago
I wouldn't blame your host, actually. It's WordPress. It's a shame it's so often given a free pass on these issues when it really isn't good at handling peaks in traffic.
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Git for Grown-ups(24ways.org)
3 points by drewmclellan 13y ago|0 comments
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Progressive enhancement is still important(jakearchibald.com)
10 points by drewmclellan 13y ago|0 comments
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by drewmclellan 13y ago
It's probably a good call to shut down these services. Yahoo has to change to survive. What's not good is the amount of notice. 3 months should be the absolute minimum notice for shutting down a service. Otherwise you lose users' trust and
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by drewmclellan 13y ago
I used to hate standups when I was at Yahoo. Maybe it's more a sign of how broken Yahoo is than how broken standups are, but the daily process was roughly: 0. 9am, catch up on email, then coast for a while knowing you'll have to stop work a
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
If a load fails due to network issues, the user won't always appreciate that the fault was down to networking. The site might just look broken. If the failure wasn't related to a network issue (either bad data, or perhaps a buggy JS interpr
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
The issue Bootstrap still has is that the parts that make use of JavaScript completely rely on JavaScript. If you're on a flakey data connection, for example, and JavaScript doesn't load parts of the page simply break. The tab component is
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Thanks. The responsiveness was retrofitted by me (not a designer) in 2011. Narrowing a design is easier than widening it.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
That's the same design, we just allow the page to adjust to the available screen width.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Thanks for replying. It sounds like your preferred aesthetic is completely at odds with what we're trying to achieve. No harm in that.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
As the publisher of said site, an honest, genuine question to you both (or any who share their opinion) - what is it about the site design that turns you off so much? What 'work' does it need, in your view? (Edit: typo)
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
That's my site. I'm glad you're a fan - thank you. I suspect, in this case, that you're simply not this article's intended audience. If you've already got a good feel for design, then the suggestions could feel simplistic. We publish an art
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
"I've seen this exact same layout on this exact same site." Dude.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Of course. The comment was "I don't think that any IDE is so costly if you develop on any other phone". That said, I'd happily pay £500 to not have to use Eclipse, but each to their own.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Just for reference, a quick search reveals that MS VisualStudio can be purchased "from £502" (UK) and a new Mac mini starts at £499.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Keith Chegwin gets stuck in Great Britain, which is probably for the best.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
I don't expect them to keep providing a shared hosting service in general. They do, however, have a unique obligation to provide something like it to lifetime customers. Yes, it was a good deal, for which I got far most hosting than I paid
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
I was one of the original 200 to back TextDrive in with the VC200 accounts. The risk, of course, was that the venture wouldn't be successful and we'd be laying out $200 for less than $200 worth of hosting. If they were successful, $200 woul
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
The very first sentence is why Git is not the new FTP: > First, create a directory on your server and initialize an empty git repository. The number of people who deploy sites via FTP who also have SSH access and the ability to instal
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
This is similar in many ways to MarkItUp ( http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/ ), which I've had good experiences with. One potential pitfall with JavaScript preview of Markdown (or Textile, or any other similar language) is that if you're not u
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
My personal experience is that the phones are built to last. My iPhone 3G is now 4 years old, and receives heavy daily use from my 15yo daughter. The battery runs all day - it's still totally reliable and doing good service. That's more tha
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
This looks really useful, and the API looks simple. Just a quick reminder for those using any library like this; screenreader users (typically blind people) rely heavily on the keyboard to use their web browser. Adding your own shortcuts ca
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
> tell them that you may have to fire them or that they may be let go through not fault of their own This is really great advice. If there's one thing almost as good as being in rock-solid employment, it's having a clear and accurate vi
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
In the source of the script itself, it has: Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses. ...which is how jQuery is licensed, as is common for plugins and other jQuery-based projects.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Theoretically, adding the following to your browser's user stylesheet should defeat this: a { pointer-events: auto !important; } The !important keyword adds weight to the rule, which trumps origin, specificity and sort-order in the
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Glad he's okay. Let's hope the hospital doesn't offer him breakfast.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Absolutely. We have code reviews because we all make mistakes. Sometimes really dumb ones. It's crazy to be mad at a programmer for a bug in their code found during a code review. Discuss it, learn from it, and not only does the code get fi
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
It wouldn't be unreasonable to suggest that the stress (and business impact) could be reduced by making sure any critical machine has a hot-backup should it fail. Making sure employees are happy and safe in their work is good business.
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by drewmclellan 14y ago
Testing in different browsers is a real pain. Getting front end code working properly in all those different browsers is even more of a pain. Getting that code working really well is harder still. It takes time, dedication, skill, and a l

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