With mobile devices flooding the market, web design tries to follow the trends and adapt to the new technologies. Most of the time the wrong way. I am talking about mobile versions of websites that deprive the user of the full content of the page or pointless standalone apps. The right way would be using responsive web design methods just to adapt the size of the page to the media that it’s running on. I’ll talk about this in detail soon in a article about Sussy responsive grids for Compass. This is going to be a 3 part series of articles, on how to take advantage of touch technologies on web sites. I’ll focus on the results of my experience with this technology and what to use and how.…

There is no short answer, or correct one for that matter, but there are some patterns. It's basic marketing 101, that people want what they can't have, what they friend or neighbor has, what society says the want...  Inspired by Andrew Kim road to success, by criticising Microsofts awful design, I've decided to write my view on the stupidity of asking people what they want. Because in reality people don't know what they want until they see it. It's the designers job is to make something that people would want and is on the marketing guys job  to sell it. Basically what I want to say is that all the research that companies like M$ do are rather pointless. If you try to design something by asking people what…

Setting up a search engine in your rails application is quite simple in theory. All you need is a few short lines of code and the right gem. The problem usually occurs when installing the engine itself, especially on windows, as usual. What follows is a short guide on how to make sphinx work with mysql on windows, with some tips and useful links. I used to develop my search on my linux vps because of it. Then I tried Sunspot and life was beautiful, until it screw everything up... I blame the evil Java and my self, for even consider. using it. Now I am back on Sphinx and I even make it work on windows. Here is how.

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When developing websites, having a separate browser is a must. I like to use Firefox for all my web browsing needs. For everyday use because it just has the best interface and the best extensions. For web developing tho I could use Chrome, but I just can’t make the switch from Firebug. In order to have my workspace organized and efficient therefore I need to have 2 firefox icons pinned to my Windows 8 taskbar (one for each profile). This wasn’t a problem in the early days of Windows 7, when every opened Firefox profile had a separate ID.But then the guys at Mozilla changed that and I had to have a separate web development shortcut in my start menu. Obviously the two instances of Firefox were grouped together…