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Front-end editing is one of those features that sounds like a good idea, and makes for good demo, but has some fundamental failings. 1) It sets up an expectation for the user that …

I wouldn't blame your host, actually. It's WordPress. It's a shame it's so often given a free pass on these issues when it really isn't good at handling peaks in traffic.

It's probably a good call to shut down these services. Yahoo has to change to survive. What's not good is the amount of notice. 3 months should be the absolute minimum notice for s…

I used to hate standups when I was at Yahoo. Maybe it's more a sign of how broken Yahoo is than how broken standups are, but the daily process was roughly: 0. 9am, catch up on emai…

If a load fails due to network issues, the user won't always appreciate that the fault was down to networking. The site might just look broken. If the failure wasn't related to a n…

The issue Bootstrap still has is that the parts that make use of JavaScript completely rely on JavaScript. If you're on a flakey data connection, for example, and JavaScript doesn'…

Thanks. The responsiveness was retrofitted by me (not a designer) in 2011. Narrowing a design is easier than widening it.

That's the same design, we just allow the page to adjust to the available screen width.

Thanks for replying. It sounds like your preferred aesthetic is completely at odds with what we're trying to achieve. No harm in that.

As the publisher of said site, an honest, genuine question to you both (or any who share their opinion) - what is it about the site design that turns you off so much? What 'work' d…

That's my site. I'm glad you're a fan - thank you. I suspect, in this case, that you're simply not this article's intended audience. If you've already got a good feel for design, t…

"I've seen this exact same layout on this exact same site." Dude.

Of course. The comment was "I don't think that any IDE is so costly if you develop on any other phone". That said, I'd happily pay £500 to not have to use Eclipse, but each to thei…

Just for reference, a quick search reveals that MS VisualStudio can be purchased "from £502" (UK) and a new Mac mini starts at £499.

Keith Chegwin gets stuck in Great Britain, which is probably for the best.

I don't expect them to keep providing a shared hosting service in general. They do, however, have a unique obligation to provide something like it to lifetime customers. Yes, it wa…

I was one of the original 200 to back TextDrive in with the VC200 accounts. The risk, of course, was that the venture wouldn't be successful and we'd be laying out $200 for less th…

The very first sentence is why Git is not the new FTP: > First, create a directory on your server and initialize an empty git repository. The number of people who deploy sites via …

This is similar in many ways to MarkItUp ( http://markitup.jaysalvat.com/ ), which I've had good experiences with. One potential pitfall with JavaScript preview of Markdown (or Tex…

My personal experience is that the phones are built to last. My iPhone 3G is now 4 years old, and receives heavy daily use from my 15yo daughter. The battery runs all day - it's st…

This looks really useful, and the API looks simple. Just a quick reminder for those using any library like this; screenreader users (typically blind people) rely heavily on the key…

> tell them that you may have to fire them or that they may be let go through not fault of their own This is really great advice. If there's one thing almost as good as being in ro…

In the source of the script itself, it has: Dual licensed under the MIT or GPL Version 2 licenses. ...which is how jQuery is licensed, as is common for plugins and other jQuery-bas…