Tag: development

I tried split-screen multitasking on the iPad, and here’s what I discovered

May 16, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Sometimes the grass isn’t greener on the other side. Almost from the start, iPad users have begged and pleaded with Apple to add a missing feature: split-screen multitasking. Split-screen multitasking is the ability to run two or more apps simultaneously, side by side, just like you can on a desktop computer. But iOS, of course, is the antithesis of traditional multitasking. You can have only one app on the screen at a time. That may be about to change. Apple is rumored to be adding multitasking to the iPad in iOS 8, which is expected to be shown to developers at next month’s Worldwide Developer’s Conference. With split screen multitasking, you could write a paper in Pages on the left while researching in …

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I tried split-screen multitasking on the iPad, and here’s what I discovered

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Is Your News Site Too Slow? Probably, Though, The Guardian’s Trying To Speed Theirs Up

May 14, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Web publishers face a quandary in 2014: User expectations for how quickly a website will load are getting faster and faster. But web pages keep getting fatter and fatter, adding custom fonts, bigger art, more video, and more complex JavaScript into the mix. Our 3G reality often falls short of our broadband dreams. Patrick Hamman at The Guardian gave an interesting talk last week at the FrontTrends conference in Warsaw about how they’re trying to make theguardian.com load a lot faster in its new, responsive design, and there are a lot of ideas in here ready to be stolen by other news site developers. One remarkable fact: A Guardian audience survey found that, of 17 key product drivers, the speed of the site ranked No. 2, behind only …

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Is your news site too slow? Probably, though The Guardianâ€™s trying to speed theirs up

Chrome DevTools Features You May Have Missed

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

In 2013, I posted a few tutorials on DevTools: Markup and Style, Networking and the Console and JavaScript and Performance, covering the basic features of the various DevTools panels. Since then, a lot has changed, so let’s take a look. Tl;dr DevTools has grown quite a bit since it was last covered on Tuts+, here are some of the features you’ll want to be aware of: Screencasting: view and interact with web pages on your Android device via DevTools on the desktop. Workspaces: use the Sources panel as a code editor. Edit code in your project and have that persist to disk. Source Map debugging: writing LESS/Sass or even CoffeeScript? Output Source Maps during compilation to have DevTools understand the mapping. *Flame Chart: *view an interactive …

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Chrome DevTools Features You May Have Missed

WordPress Code Reference is Now Live

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Siobhan McKeown announced that the first version of the WordPress Code Reference is now live. It’s still in the very early stages of development but is now out in the wild so that people can help contribute. Go try it out to see how easy it is to search the WordPress code base. The reference was created as part of the devhub project to make it easy for developers to find more information about WordPress functions, classes, methods, hooks, and filters. After a few quick searches, I found that the search function is actually quite forgiving and will return results that are similar to what you were looking for, even if you spell it wrong. How can you help improve the reference? McKeown said that current…

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WordPress Code Reference is Now Live

Create a Responsive CSS3 Paper Fold Effect

April 25, 2014 / Paul / 0 Comments

Tweet Author: Steve Jenkins 24th April 2014 Create a responsive CSS3 paper fold effect embedded content Make use of CSS3 features such as box-shadows and background gradients to create this engaging effect. There are so many remarkable and exciting things that we designers can achieve on the web today, whether itâ€™s using the pillars of the web HTML5, CSS3 and good old jQuery, or more modern frameworks and technologies, development just never seems to ease up. Better yet, there are sure to be even more remarkable and exciting things to look forward to experimenting with in the near future. Still, even among all of these great technologies, it is worth remembering that we must also make use of the more subtle elements available to us, even…

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