Mocking^2 Bird
Mockingbird, a new wireframe webapp, boasts:
Powered by Cappuccino: no Flash needed.
John Gruber writes:
It’s a true web app (no Flash), written in Cappuccino
Gentlemen, your excitement over skipping Flash is hugely misplaced.
If you load the app, you can see custom scrollbars and navigation, a complete lack of accessibility, non-native controls, and all those other things that cause geeks to hate Flash. What, to the end user, is the benefit of this being done with JavaScript instead of Flash? You can get the patronage of the 0.000001% of web users who don’t have Flash installed? (Sadly, I don’t think Richard Stallman needs many wireframes drawn)
Gruber’s definition of “true web app” and mine greatly differ. Clue: If it’s completely unusable on the iPhone Safari browser, it doesn’t matter if it’s built in JavaScript, Flash or Microsoft Visual Fortran 2012. It’s not a “true web app”
Some great thoughts on mobile website development from Flickr, whose iPhone-friendly site is a thing of beauty.
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NGINX requests - by day
A blog post I wrote last night ended up on the front page of Reddit this morning. As of 2pm, I have had more unique visitors today than I had in January-March of this year combined!
My stack of nginx, Apache, Django and memcache all kicked in exactly as designed, and handled the flood of visitors without breaking (much) of a sweat, on a $25-a-month virtual server.
(Hat tip to Simon Willison for blogging about using this architecture. and inspiring me to preemptively deploy it on my own blog)
Saw a presentation on this at BarCampBlock, and I absolutely have to delve into it further. “Selenium Remote Control is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application UI tests in any programming language against any HTTP website using any mainstream JavaScript-enabled browser.”
Track where users are clicking on your webpages so you can slap in advertising/tune your site’s usability (delete as appropriate)
Visualizations on how Yahoo, Google and MSN (and comment spam bots) spider through content.
A nostalgic selection of memes and history from the last ten years.
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