Monthly Archives: December 2008

• I’m going on vacation 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 … Continue reading →

• Page Load Times vs Conversion Rates 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 … Continue reading →

• Basic operations with markers in Google Maps 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 … Continue reading →

• Website Optimization [Book Review] 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 … Continue reading →

• Unobtrusive Google Maps 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 … Continue reading →

• Simple maps with the Google Static Maps API 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 … Continue reading →

• How people really use the iPhone 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 … Continue reading →

• Webworkers Meet on Application Security 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 … Continue reading →