This week is quite a busy one so far, but as every week my (web) highlights. Less news, more tools & tips this time:
1. google reader, 2. import photos from iphone, 3. IE/Chrome market share, 4. bug isolation, 5. HTML5 Boilerplate.
1. Google Reader
First of all I discovered Google Reader and the power of subscribing to RSS feeds. It was kind of an “aha” moment. You just open your favorite RSS Reader, in my case google reader and you have your feeds at the left side and it reads like a news paper, but more compact, because the articles display only their title, like (g)mail. All interesting stuff is now centered in one place and I don’t have to receive blog subscription emails or scroll through endless twitter updates of followers. It’s way more efficient to read news!
Google reader is neat just as gmail and other google apps. You can share, mail, tagg, like posts, you can even search for similar feeds:
2. Import photos from iPhone
I had way too many photos on my iphone, time to backup! But how to get them off the iphone? Not via itunes it seems :(
itunes offer you one-way syncing
You can mail various photos, but nothing to sync the whole bunch to a cloud service like dropbox, . So you reach out to finder/ windows explorer but you can’t see the device. On Mac you can use iPhoto but I am not always a fan of how it organizes my photos and I use Canon software to manage my photo. Then I stumbled upon this post and problem fixed: use Image Capture (native OS app) and voila photos are on my desktop now :D
OK that is for mac, for Windows there are similar ways, see here
3. IE going down, Chrome rising
Third (stop chuckling some designers out there ..) IE Market Share Falls Below 50%. That in itself is not the good news, if you look at the table we see that “7.5% of IE6 users switched browser in the past month” - that is the great news and stresses the fact that IE6 becomes less and less important and saves us designers some early grey hairs ;)
Also note Google’s Chrome has a 11.52% share and increasing: quite spectacular! Using this browser for some time now I say it is no less than deserved.
4. How to isolate a bug
Ok not necessarily web related, but wanted to mention this interesting article with some tips every troubleshooter would recognize. Finally “isolating bugs can be something of an art” and we might loose a lot of time if we are not methodical here. So this is a good start:
1. What is the Error Message?
2. Expected vs Actual Results
3. Steps to Reproduce the problem
4. What’s the URL (generic: are transmitter and receiver talking about the same thing?)
5. Browser Version and Settings (generic: compatibility software components, specific configurations, context)
This list is not complete, but as troubleshooting is part of everybody’s job, especially when we get stuck and loose valuable time, it can be a big time saver to go down a list of fixed items. It depends the area you are troubleshooting in, but cut out 95% at the start solves 90% of the problems and for the not so straightforward stuff it makes trial and error more efficient.
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Web Spotlights week 40 – IE going down, Chrome rising
This week is quite a busy one so far, but as every week my (web) highlights. Less news, more tools & tips this time:
1. google reader, 2. import photos from iphone, 3. IE/Chrome market share, 4. bug isolation, 5. HTML5 Boilerplate.
First of all I discovered Google Reader and the power of subscribing to RSS feeds. It was kind of an “aha” moment. You just open your favorite RSS Reader, in my case google reader and you have your feeds at the left side and it reads like a news paper, but more compact, because the articles display only their title, like (g)mail. All interesting stuff is now centered in one place and I don’t have to receive blog subscription emails or scroll through endless twitter updates of followers. It’s way more efficient to read news!
Google reader is neat just as gmail and other google apps. You can share, mail, tagg, like posts, you can even search for similar feeds:
2. Import photos from iPhone
I had way too many photos on my iphone, time to backup! But how to get them off the iphone? Not via itunes it seems :(
itunes offer you one-way syncing
You can mail various photos, but nothing to sync the whole bunch to a cloud service like dropbox, . So you reach out to finder/ windows explorer but you can’t see the device. On Mac you can use iPhoto but I am not always a fan of how it organizes my photos and I use Canon software to manage my photo. Then I stumbled upon this post and problem fixed: use Image Capture (native OS app) and voila photos are on my desktop now :D
OK that is for mac, for Windows there are similar ways, see here
3. IE going down, Chrome rising
Third (stop chuckling some designers out there ..) IE Market Share Falls Below 50%. That in itself is not the good news, if you look at the table we see that “7.5% of IE6 users switched browser in the past month” - that is the great news and stresses the fact that IE6 becomes less and less important and saves us designers some early grey hairs ;)
Also note Google’s Chrome has a 11.52% share and increasing: quite spectacular! Using this browser for some time now I say it is no less than deserved.
4. How to isolate a bug
Ok not necessarily web related, but wanted to mention this interesting article with some tips every troubleshooter would recognize. Finally “isolating bugs can be something of an art” and we might loose a lot of time if we are not methodical here. So this is a good start:
1. What is the Error Message?
2. Expected vs Actual Results
3. Steps to Reproduce the problem
4. What’s the URL (generic: are transmitter and receiver talking about the same thing?)
5. Browser Version and Settings (generic: compatibility software components, specific configurations, context)
This list is not complete, but as troubleshooting is part of everybody’s job, especially when we get stuck and loose valuable time, it can be a big time saver to go down a list of fixed items. It depends the area you are troubleshooting in, but cut out 95% at the start solves 90% of the problems and for the not so straightforward stuff it makes trial and error more efficient.
5.HTML5 Boilerplate
Last but not least a profound framework to start off your next web project: Professional Base Template For HTML5-CSS3 Projects: HTML5 ★ Boilerplate: “HTML5 Boilerplate is the professional badass’s base HTML/CSS/JS template for a fast, robust and future-proof site.” I heard about it some time ago in the sitepoint podcast: it’s at times geeky but definitely a useful resource for every designer out there
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