Luke Wroblewski on Designing for Mobile First

This summer I had the pleasure to review Luke Wroblewski’s O’Reilly master class on Designing for mobile first This title is also available on safari books online (best deal ever, get on safari). For those who follow Luke Wroblewski’s writing at http://lukew.com/ regularly & have read Tapworthy this might be a bit of redundant data. Even so, it’s nice to have it all nicely compiled in a...

HTML 5, a gentle introduction

These are my slides for September’s Boca Raton’s ruby meetup. I’ll be giving an introduction to HTML 5. Just the markup. I cover semantic changes, deprecation and the new tags. Including gotchas. Unfortunately there is just too much in HTML 5 for a single sitting. Html5, a gentle introduction View more presentations from...

_whyday – ruby explorations

Image via Wikipedia Yesterday at the boca raton ruby meetup I showed off some hacking that I did about 3-4 years ago when I was exploring ruby meta-programming as many people were doing at the time. It was the period of _why, markaby and the poignant guide to ruby. In that period I used to take the train to work, ride it for about 90 minutes, work a full day, go to happy hour with the CTO of the company and...

Google Analytics setDomain beware

In May I added a google analytic line of code that should be used when tracking users among different subdomain under the same profile. The call in question is setDomain. I went through the documented steps (http://code.google.com/apis/analytics/docs/tracking/gaTrackingSite.html#domainSubDomains) and pushed it to production. I have used this functionality successfully previously. About a month later I realized that...