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FYI - iOS, JavaScript, and inactive tabs

This is something I had heard before, but didn't really think about it until a reader I was helping ran into it. It involves Safari on iOS (and I believe...

0 replies - 1648 views - 01/22/13 by Raymond Camden in Articles

The Psychology of Reviews

Reviews have really come to the fore this year.  Research has shown that an increase in favourable reviews can make a big difference to whether a...

0 replies - 1165 views - 12/18/12 by Adi Gaskell in Articles

There's So Much Waste- Can You See It?

As information work has become digitized, the work that many of us do on a daily basis has become less visible. Chances are it will never be seen, or...

0 replies - 1170 views - 12/17/12 by Oscar Berg in Articles

Understanding The Viewport Meta Tag

When working on a new web design one of things you need to think about is responsive design. Is the website you are about to make going to need a responsive...

0 replies - 2964 views - 12/17/12 by Paul Underwood in Articles

My First Official MongoDB Appearance

 Yesterday I had the nerve-wrackingdubiousalarming great pleasure of presenting my first official MongoDB-shaped talk.  This was in the form of...

0 replies - 1688 views - 12/03/12 by Trisha Gee in Articles

Node.js Development on Windows with WebMatrix 2

Having found the excellent TOAD for MongoDB (and other NoSQL), Windows is starting to be an okay development platform.  Not as good as Mac or Ubuntu, but...

0 replies - 3242 views - 10/23/12 by Tim Spann in Articles

A Fresh Look at HTML5 [infographic]

Today I have prepared a new and fresh collection of infographics about HTML5. It tells us about the current state of HTML, explains the evolution, key...

0 replies - 7188 views - 10/23/12 by Andrey Prikaznov in Articles

8 Practical Tips for Saving Bandwith / Reducing Server Load

Bandwidth (the data transfered from your web server to the client browser) is generally limited by hosting providers so, as a website owner, you have to...

0 replies - 2486 views - 08/02/12 by jb j in Articles

ElasticSearch 0.19 extension points

ElasticSearch 0.19 extension points Posted by Kelvin on 14 Jun 2012 at 01:52 am | Tagged as: Lucene / Solr / Elastic Search / Nutch A list of the...

0 replies - 8477 views - 06/15/12 by Kelvin Tan in Articles

How to Develop Map/Reduce with Reduced Assumptions

It all started with this odd bug…  One of our teams is writing a service, that among other things, runs map/reduce jobs built as pig scripts with Java...

0 replies - 4151 views - 05/10/12 by Arnon Rotem-gal-oz in Articles