Happy New Year 2012
I wish you readers all the best in 2012.
If you haven’t seen it, check out the imgur Best of 2011. 11 of the most viewed image collections on imgur.com. One of my annual favorites to check out.
What do I expect in the next year?
- Much more WordPress work (on more complex and demanding sites)
- A trip somewhere, maybe Europe.
- To redo seangw.com at some point. The site is becoming more popular (we get thousands of visitors every day) — and the site now deserves some love. What web developer/blogger websites do you like most?
- To actually use my SEO knowledge on my own sites!
- Introduce an “Ask A Question” button on the site. If you don’t know, I welcome any and all feedback. You can Contact Me anytime if you have a questions not answered on the site.
- New monitors (I’ve had my 3 monitors since 2003?) — it’s time.
- Even more social interactions! The facebook and Google Plus buttons have been popular this year. Next year I will build dedicated brand pages (and maybe a Twitter brand page, if they open it up)
- I may even migrate this “blog” out from under the “wordpress” directory and to the root of my site! Craziness.
Finally, I want to thank all the people that have shared this site in 2011.
Some viewership numbers:
December 2008 – 200 readers/week
December 2009 – 1000 readers / week
December 2010 – 1,800 readers / week
December 2011 – 9,000 readers / week
So I appreciate all those Facebook likes, those tweets, and links to some of my posts.
If there’s anything you’d like to see covered in 2012, please shoot me a message.
Happy New Year
- Sean
Twitter’s NewNew UI Keyboard Shortcuts
I didn’t know, but Twitter implemented quite the set of keyboard shortcuts in the NewNew Twitter design.
You need to “navigate” your twitter feed to use the actions. So to “reply” to a tweet, scroll down using J and K (and space). You can see which tweet is highlighted. Then you can do an “action” such as hitting T to retweet.
For the “Timelines” you need to hold down G and hit the 2nd key, so to go to your profile, hold G and hit P.
Web developer should be thinking more and more of these keyboard shortcuts as your websites become more like applications.
Here’s a short of the help menu (you can hit “Shift+/” or “Shift + ?” to get this in twitter):
Twitter’s New Interface Introduces Brand Pages!
Earlier today I was able to download a new Twitter app on my iPhone, now the whole Twitter site is updated.
In case you haven’t seen the design yet, here are some new things:
- New nav bar (Home, Connect, and Discover)
- Tweets are on the right, and your other “data” are on the left (ohhhhhhh)
- Clicking on a tweet will pop up, as opposed to slide out on the right. I find this slightly annoying as it obscures other tweets.
- Brand Pages!
Part of the redesign includes brand pages. Think of it as Twitter’s version of the Facebook page.
All you social networking experts are gonna eat this up.
Check out the Disney Pixar twitter brand page. Nice eh?
Firefox 8.0 Released
Developers over at Mozilla have released Firefox 8.0, Mozilla Firefox Adds Twitter Search and New Features that Make Web Browsing Easier.
Some features in the new release are:
- We no longer see “major” releases of Firefox as meaning anything
- twitter is now included as a search option
- Load tabs on demand
- Disabling add-ons installed by 3rd party add-ons
- Added support for CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing)
As far as us developers are concerned:
- input and textarea now support selectionDirection and setSelectionRange()
- Focus ring on elements using the tabindex
- insertAdjacentHTML is implemented
- Nested label event handling is fixed
- window.postMessage() will pass File and FileList objects between windows
- .contenteditable areas now back to paragraph entry mode (shift enter is <br>)
- Fixed text-decoration rendering in quirks mode
- Console now has a dir() command that will display a list of the properties of an object.
iPhone 4S Arrives October 14th, No iPhone 5
Today Tim Cook, at the Apple “Town Hall” announced the new iOS 5 and iCloud alongside the new iPhone 4S. Here are summaries of the things announced today (skipping the marketing material, which took 30 minutes).
The iPhone 4S will be available for Verizon, AT&T and Sprint (we saw that coming).
No sign of iPhone 5.
iOS 5
Available October 12
- More than 200 user features
- New Notifications Center (swipe from top to bottom)
- Lock screen has more notifications
- iMessage – works on iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch. Text / Photos / Videos and pushed to all devices (replacement for text messages)
- Reminders (pick up dry cleaning, dinner reservations) – includes geofences to remind based on location
- Twitter integration – sign in once, integrated to Photos, Safari, YouTube, Maps
- Newsstand – easier to read newspapers / magazines on iPad (subscriptions)
- Camera Upgrades – Lock screen shortcuts to camera, you can use volume to take a picture (optional), grid lines, auto-exposure and autofocus lock (doesn’t it do this?).
- Game Center upgrades – Add photos of friends, achievement points, recommendations
- Safari updates – Reading list, Tabbed Browsing (iPad)
- Mail updates – rich formating, indenttions, moving addresses, flagging
- PC Free – (not just Windows) you can activate an iOS device without a computer
iPhone 4S
iPhone 3GS for FREE
iPhone 4 8GB for $99
16GB for $199
32GB for $299
64GB for $399
(all with 2 year contract)
Available October 14th (pre-orders starting October 7th)
- Dual core A5 chip (same as iPad 2)
- Same form factor as iPhone 4
- Battery: 8 hours of 3G talk time, 14 hrs of 2G talk time, and 6 hours on 3G browsing
- Battery: 10 hours of video, 40 hours of music
- Improved wireless System (ahem, dropped call fixes?)
- Improved data speeds (HSDPA) looks like double the download speed max (up to 14.4 Mbps which is AT&T and T-Mobile)
- World Phone – Both GSM and CDMA (single model)
- 8MP upgraded camera (3264×2448, perfect 8×10 glossy photo) with backside illuminated sensor (73% more light per pixel than iPhone 4), 33% faster capture, hybrid IR filter, five element lens
- New Image Signal Processor to enable face detection (interesting) and 26 percent better white balance
- 1.1s to first picture, 0.5s between pictures (crap, my wife will have more pictures of the dog)
- HD 1080p video, with image stabilization and temporal noise reduction
- Wired or Wireless AirPlay Mirroring (assuming with an AppleTV hooked up for wireless)
- Siri voice assistant (this might be a very cool feature, if it works well and is flexible) features so far are time, alarms, weather, stock, directions, text messages – a very impressive demo even by photo / text.
- Geofencing will be a cool thing (I know, it’s been on the droid for years now)
- iPhone takes dictation as opposed to typing
- Siri learns your voice over time.
iCloud
iCloud available on October 12
iTunes Match available end of October
- 5GB free, you can buy more if you want (who here only has 5GB of data? keep in mind if Apple knows the song, it may not count towards your total)
- Stores all content, wirelessly pushes to devices
- Can re-downlod music or media anytime (and apps)
- Find my Friends – you can share locations of your family / friends. Temp events let you only share location for a few hours. with parental controls.
- iTunes Match – can see playlists, create new, scan iTunes, stream music. Will upload non identified songs. Ships at the end of the month.
iPod Nano
8GB for $129
16GB for $149
Available October 12
- Nano has easier navigation with larger icons
- Nano supports tracking walks & runs without additional hardware
- New Nano clockfaces for those who wear it as a watch. Some are actually pretty cool
- 8GB for $129, 16GB for $149
iPod Touch
8GB for $199 (down from $229)
32GB for $299
64GB for $399
Available October 12
- Runs iOS 5 (yeah… and?)
- That’s it.
Week in Web: jQuery Menus, Flowplayer update, Stylesheet removal, drop shadows, Gury, Sliders, etc
I’m going to start publishing, every Friday, a list of some useful / interesting links I’ve visited throughout the course of the week.
Usually this will involve whatever I am working on at the moment. If you like these links, you can follow me on Twitter to get them as I find them (as opposed to waiting for Friday).
This week I’ve been working a lot with jQuery (nothing new), Flowplayer, and CSS. An average week for a web developer.
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Bloglines Shutting Down
To my sparse readers using Bloglines, it is being shut down in a few weeks by it’s owner, Ask.com.
Here’s the update:
Today, Ask.com let our users know that we will shut down Bloglines on October 1. Not an easy decision, especially considering our loyal and supportive (not to mention patient) user base, but, ultimately, the right one given business reasons simply too hard to ignore.
It is true, RSS really isn’t an “end” anymore … it is just a way for content to be syndicated over the net.
Feel free to follow on Twitter, or read directly from the site (there’s also a bunch of other ways to follow me, but I’m too tired to write them).
Help: How do I announce a new website?
We launch websites every month or two for clients, and make many website updates. What are the best ways to tell the “internet” that your site is up, and ready to be checked out? I’m going to focus on the free options, as I find anything that costs money sketchy (especially with regard to listing a site).
We can divide this into a few categories:
- Search Engines
- Social Networking
- Peer Sites
- News Aggregators
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2010-06-17
- RT @TS_Elliott: 15 Companies that might not survive 2009 – Not Krispy Kreme!!! Depressing http://twurl.nl/oyhfie #
- #flash Working with an addition to #papervision – the ReflectionView it automatically creates a reflective floor – http://twurl.nl/yvq61q #
- RT @whybanksfail: New blog post: Unemployment: What the unemployment numbers really mean http://twurl.nl/k8ssvw – scary stuff. #
- RT @whybanksfail: For GM, Bankruptcy is Termed More Likely Than Not, — rings true more now than ever http://twurl.nl/jhjxc4 #
- RT @whybanksfail: For GM, Bankruptcy is Termed More Likely Than Not, — rings true more now than ever http://twurl.nl/jhjxc4 #
- Looking for a wordpress theme that executes fluid layout well, and displays recent posts from categories… for dissection #
- Looking for a wordpress theme that executes fluid layout well, and displays recent posts from categories… for dissection #
- Looks like this #wordpress theme does the categorization at least http://twurl.nl/q6egp3 (Miniml) #
- Looks like this #wordpress theme does the categorization at least http://twurl.nl/q6egp3 (Miniml) #
- RT @nullvariable @KisSmetrics 10 things a web designer would never tell you http://twurl.nl/tr1q16 #webdesign #
- RT @stejules Introducing Google's New Social Web Blog – Google Launches New Official Blog Focused on Social Web http://twurl.nl/dnp61r #
- #WordPress 2.7.1 out — http://twurl.nl/ybew53 – seems like mostly a handful of bug fixes, if you know of other changes, let me know! #
- #WordPress 2.7.1 out — http://twurl.nl/ybew53 – seems like mostly a handful of bug fixes, if you know of other changes, let me know! #
Twitter Weekly Updates for 2009-02-08
- Woke up to snow, again. Haven’t seen my lawn since mid December. Makes it easier to code during the day than having sun shining at least. #
- #ajax #jQuery Nettuts.com posted an extensive review about the enhancements made in jQuery 1.3 http://tinyurl.com/br6ggo #
- Anyone know if there’s an easy way to setup a test account in #wordpress that uses a different theme? I’m trying to play with a new theme #
- Playing scrabble on facebook — a slow sick day. #
- I find it annoying playing against people who know what they are doing in scrabble, I mean, “Qi” — come on #
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