December 19th, 2008
Tomorrow I’m going on vacation to Duved, a ski resort in Sweden right next to Åre that has killer slopes. We’re going to ski every day, celebrate Christmas and just have a really good time. It’s going to be so nice to get away for a while. That also means that I’m not going to [...]
December 18th, 2008
I recently read Andy B. King’s book Website Optimization and was surprised by some of the statistics in it. It shows that there’s a very clear connection between page load times and conversion rates. Statistics from Google and Amazon show that an increase in load time has a direct and profound impact on user engagement.
December 16th, 2008
Markers is one of the core features in Google Maps and an effective way of displaying places on a map. In this article I will show you how to add a basic marker to a map and also how to add some interactivity to it.
December 15th, 2008
Back in 2003 Andy King published his first book: Speed Up Your Site. It was my first encounter with optimization of HTML and CSS, something that in recent years have been recognized as an important field by, among others, the YUI team. Now in 2008 Andy is back with a new book, but this time [...]
December 12th, 2008
When developing web applications we can never be sure what the environment for the user is. He could for example use our application from a mobile device with a browser with limited Javascript support. Like Roger Johansson pointed out in Making Google Maps more accessible, we must prevent our applications from breaking under these circumstances [...]
December 8th, 2008
Google Static Maps API is an easy way to provide a map when the user doesn’t have Javascript available. Sure it’s not near as powerful as the full Google Maps API but still, it can provide you with a basic map that can contain both markers and paths.
December 4th, 2008
Strategic research and design firm Create with Context has published a presentation on SlideShare showing what they’ve come up with after evaluating the iPhones User Interface. The research goal was to understand how ordinary people interact with the iPhone. The methods used were interviews, user testing in a lab environment and heuristic evaluation. The result [...]
December 3rd, 2008
Last night Peter Bayer from Combitech held a talk on Application Security for a Network I’m affiliated with called Webworkers. Peter is an experienced Technical Security Adviser that apart from doing vulnerability assessments, penetration tests and IT forensics also teaches application security on security courses. Right now Peter is writing a chapter about secure programming [...]