Anyone ever told you that your website isn’t mobile optimized? Or have you ever seen a lilliputian-looking website on your device? You know, one that renders so small you are forced to squint as you enlarge various parts of the site with your fingers just to read it?

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Over the past year and a half, I’ve watched ElasticSearch grow from a seemingly part-time code experiment into a thriving ecosystem.

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Over the past year and a half, I’ve watched ElasticSearch grow from a seemingly part-time code experiment into a thriving ecosystem.

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There has been a lot of excitement in recent months regarding a few new entrants to the mobile operating systems arena including Firefox OS, Tizen, and Ubuntu Touch.

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There has been a lot of excitement in recent months regarding a few new entrants to the mobile operating systems arena including Firefox OS, Tizen, and Ubuntu Touch.

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Amazon CloudFront is a pay-as-you-go global content delivery network (or CDN) that provides high availability and high performance serving of static assets. Basically, it means users have to wait less time to view your web app regardless of their location on the globe.

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Amazon CloudFront is a pay-as-you-go global content delivery network (or CDN) that provides high availability and high performance serving of static assets. Basically, it means users have to wait less time to view your web app regardless of their location on the globe.

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My second article in IBM developerWorks’ series Mobile for the Masses is out! This article covers how to go about designing a mobile interface from the standpoint of usability via gestures. In essence, eschew buttons and prefer the swipe!

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My second article in IBM developerWorks’ series Mobile for the Masses is out! This article covers how to go about designing a mobile interface from the standpoint of usability via gestures. In essence, eschew buttons and prefer the swipe!

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Wget is an extremely handy utility I use all the time when I find myself on a Linux box. It’s quite helpful, for example, for downloading files. Need to install Ruby? No problem, just download the binary like so:

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Wget is an extremely handy utility I use all the time when I find myself on a Linux box. It’s quite helpful, for example, for downloading files. Need to install Ruby? No problem, just download the binary like so:

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As if the JavaScript console in Chrome couldn’t be any more awesome. Check it out: Command Line API Reference. Yep, it’s legit. I’ve been using Firebug and the like for years and only just ran across this feature of Chrome’s JavaScript console.

My favorite: getEventListeners. Understanding how the DOM is augmented with listeners is amazingly helpful!

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As if the JavaScript console in Chrome couldn’t be any more awesome. Check it out: Command Line API Reference. Yep, it’s legit. I’ve been using Firebug and the like for years and only just ran across this feature of Chrome’s JavaScript console.

My favorite: getEventListeners. Understanding how the DOM is augmented with listeners is amazingly helpful!

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The mobile development landscape is bursting at the seams with frameworks and tools that enable you to target two primary mobile platforms: iOS and Android.

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The mobile development landscape is bursting at the seams with frameworks and tools that enable you to target two primary mobile platforms: iOS and Android.

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