22 Mar 2013
I umm'd and ahh'd about the title of this post for a while because I wasn't sure I could call my newsletter successful. To me that seems a little big headed and it wasn't until I had someone at a bar come up and tell me that they loved the newsletter that I let myself believe it qualified as a success.
12 Mar 2013
Am I Responsive has been nominated for Side Project of the Year in this years's .net Awards. I am honoured to have made the shortlist along side the other wonderful nominations and am thrilled to know that a project that I started to help save me time has assisted so many people.
04 Mar 2013
When kicking off with any new project I like to try and find out as much information from the client as possible before getting back to them with a quote or project plan.
01 Mar 2013
I decided to put together a visualisation of all the urls that have been tested on Am I Responsive so I needed to do a bit of digging into Google Analytics.
26 Feb 2013
I've decided to test our New Relic for no other reason then I'm interested in what the server is doing and it's something that I wanted to know how to do. It has nothing at all to do with the free trip to New York they are giving away this month. Nothing. Honest.
25 Feb 2013
Eighteen months ago I put together a very crude webpage that used iFrames to preview a few of the popular viewports as a quick and dirty test for a responsive project we were working on.I never really needed this tool again. All my final testing was done on devices, and in the early stages using Media Queries (by Ben Callahan), dragging the chrome window. That was, at least, until a Thursday night in early February.
24 Feb 2013
I have too many domain names, and the biggest issue is I have is that I have 3 domains for myself. That means when I write an article like this I could post it in up to three different locations depending on my mood. ARRGHHH.
22 Feb 2013
The world has been super fortunate over the past few years with the number of brilliant plug in and play website options. Things like Wordpress, SquareSpace, Foundation, Bootstrap, H5BP, jQuery..... these things have all been created to make it easier to jump into building your own site and publishing your content.
21 Feb 2013
For a long time though I was blindly uploading my images/css/js without thinking about cache. Just because the assets were being served from a content distribution network (CDN) didn't mean that you yourself couldn't benefit form a little cache.
21 Feb 2013
This morning I woke up at 04:50 to make it down to the beach to take a few pictures of the rising swell before the sun came up. It wasn't as big as I was hoping but here are a few choice shots from the morning.