On a recent project I was working on, the client had a web-site structure in mind where the user would navigate using a page swipe (on touch-based devices) and the pages would transition using a slide transition effect. It was pretty clear that jQuery Mobile already...
Ever since the advent of memcached and its ilk, the server-side has been able to benefit from reduced load by caching recently or oft-requested resources. This hasn’t become any less important and valuable. If anything, in this era of the webApp, when native...
You want to create a simple login page for your new website, all written to be dynamic using Backbone.js and Marionette.js. To accomplish this, you listen for the login button to be pressed and then use jQuery to disable the form controls and display a loading...
Have you ever had one of those days? I’m not talking about those really bad days when everything seems to go wrong. I’m talking about one of those days where everything is going right and then there’s the one bug that crops up that spoils the streak. I was having an...
There’s always been a great divide between displays that can receive user feedback (e.g. touchscreens) and the displays that most people use. Touch screens are nifty, but there are usually a number of drawbacks to them. Smudges from fingerprints, less than...
