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iPhone 5 CSS Media Query

Posted by Anthony on October 1, 2012 in The Internet

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So the iPhone 5 has been released and I bought the second and third ones sold in my state after a night of camping out, which was extremely fun. But all the fun and “ooh ahh” aside, the presence of iPhone 5′s on the web is to be taken into consideration, and here I offer [...]

Twitter Phasing Out the API

Posted by Mark on July 18, 2012 in News

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Twitter is shooting itself in the foot: key bits of evidence, such as a blog post on the Twitter dev blog (linked below), the now-tarnished LinkedIn deal, the latest app/web updates and more all point to the same disturbing news. Twitter is making the same mistake that MySpace and Digg made before their services took [...]

Faster Bandwidth from Spare Server Cycles

Posted by Stephen on June 18, 2012 in The Internet

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Say your website could use better bandwidth and upgrading your hosting connection is not a feasible option at the moment. Well dearest reader, I have just the medicine for you! With just a few simple tricks, you can economize in this situation by applying a little more transparent server-side processing to squeeze more bandwidth out [...]

Web Darwinism: A Move to a Simpler Web

Posted by Anthony on June 15, 2012 in Theory

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Recall the web of the mid to late 90′s: few images, largely informational, and e-commerce was just starting to take off as more and more users joined this new informational network called the Internet. Then, throughout the 2000′s, Web 2.0 placed a name on a collection of design patterns to move the web to a [...]

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