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.

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.

XKCD have come up with another awesome comic reviewing the planets that we have identified.

If you take a look at the planets in our solar system you'll notice that we have two medium/smallish planets. That's Jupiter and Saturn. They're freaking massing.

Bills are perhaps the most boring and uneventful things that can arrive in your letterbox. The simply show you what you've been using, what the going rate is for the consumption of what every they've provided and request you pay a fee.

It should be noted that responsive design is really, really, really hard.

Really hard.

It takes a lot of time and a lot of planning. The technique of responsive design is brand new and the implementation is totally different to the way we usually will implement websites. By that definition we need to change the way our internal processes work as well as the client journey through the project.

Africa is a big place. In fact, judging by this infographic is HUGE.

I was initially really keen to show off the Wildfire jobs infographic however I recently received a letter from them denying my request for a job that I had sent through aaaages ago.

If I'm perfectly honest the application was a bit rubbish. There was no resume and the cover letter was just asking to meet up for a chat to see what the workplace and work was like. I am going to assume that it went straight to HR and was put on the bin without too much notice.

The site is still in production at the moment and will live on responsivedesign.is once our awesome designers come up with a skin for our media query based mobile first layout.

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The infographic included in this post puts it all into perspective, highlighting the major Android and iOS milestones over the course of the past five years.

So sit back, grab a cup of coffee (or mimosa), and soak in this rather astonishing history-in-the-making lesson.

Take a look through the popular areas of the web industry and find the pay scale, skill needs, who's hiring and bunch of other information. It's very much focussed at the United States, so take everything with a grain of salt.

I'm not the most prolific user of Facebook these days from a personal point of view, however I do have several business pages that I maintain including Javery Design and Responsive Web Designs.

Just a quick note that these are uncheck notes and may not be entirely accurate. If you think something is wrong, it probably is. I recommend you checking out @RellyAB

I recently did a presentation to the Darwin Web Standards Group on Responsive Design. I stole gleamed a lot of the ideas from John Allsops famous "Dao of Web Design", Jeremy Keiths talk on Responsive Web Design as part of the ASYNCJS group in Brighton, work I did with Imogen Levy during the rebuild of Westminster Abbey with HTML5 and Media Queries, and finally the kick arse book written by Ethan Macote, Alist Aparts Responsive Web Design.

Sometimes you want to be able to give your readers a quick overview of the page content, and give them the opportunity to skip down to the section they want to read. Think how Wikipedia works...

Totally got suckered in by Kickstarter and bought into this. Hope it's worth it Frank

LOL!

I've added an extra RSS feed that makes better use of the page content and includes images where required, add this site of Flipboard if you want to see how it changes.

In my quest to improve I came across treesaver.js, also found on GitHub.

name bench is a great little application that has been by one of the 20% Google Development projects.

New movements again this week, and in the past few weeks. I've bought a new car with Laura and taken a job back with Squiz but this time the Australian branch, and I'm setting up in my home town of Darwin.

A few days ago Google came out with Google Page Speed Online. This is a great tool for anyone to test how their web page is performing, but it's nothing new when it comes to reporting performance.

New movements again this week, and in the past few weeks. I've bought a new car with Laura and taken a job back with Squiz but this time the Australian branch, and I'm setting up in my home town of Darwin.

We've had a wee bit of a break over the past few weeks with some new developments. Nothing actually developer like, but new stages in our lives.

We've had a quick move from London to Australia with a holiday in Bali thrown into the mix. There are some photos up on flickr from the Bali Trip and I might get some up on this site under the visual section.

As you may be aware I'm trying to build an iPad application for a friends book, and one of the main elements of his book is going to be the video element.

Update: The crazy Irish West Coast has now unleashed a new beast, Prowlers.

Prowlers is the latest uncovered big wave spot, watch the guys surfing Prowlers here