Book Review: RESS Essentials

I have decided to start reviewing books as part of my blog activity with mixed emotions. Our industry is so fast moving, so ephemeral that books seem to fight a losing battle on being relevant the day they are published, never mind 6 months or a year down the road. Books on actual concrete products... Continue Reading →

Beam My Model Up, Scotty!

I know, I know. Scotty is from the original series, and the picture above is from TNG. Unlike Leonard from The Big Bang Theory, I prefer TNG over the original, and also Picard over Kirk. Please refrain from hate mail. Much of both real and virtual ink has been spilled over Star Trek transporter technology... Continue Reading →

Swimming Against The Tide

True story: I visited Ember.js web site and saw three required hipster artifacts: ironic mustaches, cute animals and Ray-Ban Wayfarer glasses (on a cute animal). A tweet was in order and within minutes, it was favored by a competing client side framework by Google (Angular). Who would have guessed client side frameworks are so catty?... Continue Reading →

RESS to the Rescue

It seems that every couple of years we feel a collective urge to give a technique a catchy acronym in order to speed up conversation about UI design. Last couple of years, we grew accustomed to throwing around the term Responsive Design casually, probably because it rolls off the tongue easier then "we need to... Continue Reading →

Feed Your Web UI Without Choking It

Today's topic is penguins, how they feed their young and how to apply that to Web development. Now watch my improbable feat of connecting these two topics. Come for the penguins, stay for the Web UI! I am a father and as all parents know, part of the job description when your kids reach certain age includes... Continue Reading →

Pulling Back from Extreme AJAX

I always thought that Jesse-James Garret had an awesome name. It is up there with Megan Foxx and that episode of The Simpsons when Homer briefly changed his name to Max Power. How many of us have a name that prompted John Lee Hooker to compare his level of badness to us? Granted, the Jesse... Continue Reading →

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