Please go and read Jeffrey Zeldman’s Web Design Manifesto 2012.
Read it on his site to make it extra special.
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Responsive Images
Please read Nathan Ford’s post Standards, not Prescriptions in light of the ideas being tossed around for responsive images in HTML.
If you are looking for a really good article outlining what is going on at the WHATWG right now, I wholly recommend Jeremy Keith’s post Secret src. I found it to be the one with the least amount of vitriol and most amount of information.
Taken together, I really feel like we are putting the cart before the horse right now in trying to nail down how responsive images should be handled in relation to HTML. I believe that the entire industry is firmly in the “let’s experiment and see what we can do” in regards to Responsive Web Design and all of the other emerging technologies.
Nailing down specifics seems premature at best.
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A Change of Mind
Nate Beran over at posted Cloudy Future over at his blog and I invite you to go and read it.
With the continual move to “Cloud Computing” in many facets of IT, there is a mindset change that is needed in order to understand how things now work. No longer is your vital service housed in a small closet in the basement, but now it is in a number of huge data centers across the country or globe and being run by an outside vendor so there are going to be unplanned outages along with other issues (ISP having issues? No work done today!) that are outside of the control of your internal IT department.
Sadly, it seems like when a person hears “try again later, there really isn’t anything I can do” they often here “I hate you and I’m not going to do anything”.
That needs to change.
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Double Dev
So I’ve been running off of a single MacBook Pro for over a year now but there are two problems with that setup.
Using a single machine requires me to carry the MacBook Pro between home and work every day. Not a huge problem, but if I am going to walk as often as I would like to, it could get more than a little annoying to continually haul a backpack with all of the trimmings up Center Street Hill. If I can eliminate the laptop, I can probably carry a smaller bag.
I also need to spend upwards of 10 to 15 minutes on each end getting the machine setup properly so that I can work. Once again, not a huge deal, but an annoyance. The constant plugging and unplugging on cables is a hassle I wish I did not have.
To try and work around this I spent the evening setting up a new user on my wife’s 2009 MacBook. The idea is to try using this machine as my dev machine while at home an keep the MacBook Pro at work during the main part of the week. The issue will be how well it works for recording our weekly episodes of This One Podcast (shameless self promotion there).
The good part is that web development doesn’t require a ton of computing power outside or compiling dependencies. So far, the MacBook hasn’t burst into flame, so I take that as a good sign.
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Instacast 2.0
My favorite podcast client for iOS just recently received an update to 2.0.
I updated right away and also purchased the $1.99 Instacast Pro (as an in-app purchase) as well. I use it too often not to throw my support behind the developers.