Quite simply, Paper is the best app I’ve seen in a long time.1 It just turned my iPad from a device I leave at home for email, browsing and playing games to a business tool I want to have with me all the time. Over the last six months I’ve been using paper sketches more…
March, 2012
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I backed Andrew‘s book on Kickstarter – looking forward to reading it.
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This looks more complicated than the merge workflow. It is. It is not hard. It is valuable.
We have our
pull
command set up topull --rebase
, this is a great overview of why you (almost) always want to rebase. (thanks Sandy)This post is part of the thread: Version Control – an ongoing story on this site. View the thread timeline for more context on this post.
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The next morning the strangest thing happened. I was standing on the station platform in Milsons Point waiting for the train, reading a (Kindle) book on my iPad, and for the first time ever I could see the pixels. I mean I obviously had seen them before, but now I was noticing them every time I looked at the screen. My eyes were tripping over the slightly blurry sub-pixel text rendering when they should have been flowing easily from word to word.
Same thing happened to me. I wasn’t unhappy with the iPad 2 screen, but now it looks terrible.
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After basically giving them up a few years back, I can’t drink a whole soda anymore either.
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The main reason I’m not interested in LTE (yet): mobile data packages are so limiting you can’t do anything interesting with the additional speed.
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We’ve just released version 1.0.1 of FavePersonal, which has a few minor updates. There’s one in particular that I think will be particularly useful: we’ve added a link to download a the style.css file you need to create a child theme (with your currently selected colors) from the Theme Settings page in FavePersonal. While I’m…
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I think everyone I respect already reads everything published on Rands in Repose by now, but just in case any of you have been living under a rock…
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Tucking this away for the next time I hear someone say “MySQL doesn’t scale” (not that NoSQL solutions aren’t also good tools).
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Some great tips, as usual, from Steve. I’d also point out that you need a strategy for how to you plan to update the resources you are telling browsers to cache. I typically favor the “update a query string var” approach.
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Definitely agree with this approach; it’s pretty much how we designed FavePersonal. (thanks Rona)
This post is part of the project: Personal Theme. View the project timeline for more context on this post.
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I miss Dixon’s, but I’m three for three (dinner, lunch, happy hour) with good experiences at Lucky Pie. (View on Forkly)
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One of the most fun features of FavePersonal is experimenting with different color palettes. We’ve made it easy to experiment with different colors and find a set that makes your site feel like it’s your own. No need to fiddle through dozens of color pickers, you can choose from full color palettes, preview them, and…