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If you’re a designer, you’ve likely got several hundred fonts installed (or more) on your computer. This causes a problem in many applications on OSX (Entourage, Mail, Safari, Firefox and others). I noticed it when browsing the web, certain fonts would render weird. What I originally thought was a bug in …
We’ve been learning how to install and begin using Subversion in a designer’s workflow. The method I’ve been describing, however, is what you’d use mainly for a locally hosted Subversion server. This is great if you’re running an in house network or if you’re using Subversion for yourself. When it comes to …
We understand subversion a bit more, we see the benefits and now we’ve learned how to create a repository. In this section of the tutorial we’ll learn how to actually start using Subversion for our design projects. Using Subversion 1. Subversion is just a server, we downloaded the client so that we could connect to [...]
The saga continues. It’s been over a week since Google and Yahoo announced their advertising partnership, and the news is still sending ripples everywhere. New York Times admonished Yahoo! CEO Jerry Yang for choosing to “become a pawn of the most dominant company on the Internet”, while Tim O’Reilly defended Yahoo!’s move as a smart [...]
Kathy is in love with Subversion, you will be too after this tutorial: Using Subversion is very similar to uploading and downloading files using an FTP client. First you’ll need a Subversion server and a Subversion client. You can get the latest version of the Subversion server from Tigiris.org. As I write this, the latest [...]
We’re talking about Subversion, the powerful Version tracking system for programmers and how we can repurpose it for design workflow. This was covered by Chris Nagele a while back at ThinkVitamin but it’s a topic so new to the design community it deserves repeating. The Scenario Kathy runs a small design firm that is …
At some point you may have heard your programmer friends talking about a tool called Subversion. What is it? why do you need it and how can it impact your work as a designer? SVN FOR DSGN Subversion was started in 2000 as an effort to write a free version control system which operated much [...]
Whether you’re a pro-blogger, developer, or marketer, keeping an ear to the ground is always important. Of course, there are many ways to do this, and looking at web stats is one of them. Alexa, Comscore, Hitwise, Google Trends – there’s a lot of choices out there, but the last one, due to the sheer [...]
When putting together your web application, there are a number of reasons why you might want to force some HTTP requests. For example, Facebook recently scaled their new Facebook Chat feature from 0 to 70 million users overnight, by thoroughly load testing it with silent HTTP requests from clients. You might also want to record [...]
