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Pro-tip: How To Backup All Of Your GitHub Repositories In One Go

March 29th, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about plugins Today, I’m going to present solutions for easily backing up all of your GitHub repositories in just a step or two. Minimal knowledge of GitHub fundamentals are assumed but if you have experience with writing in Ruby that'll be a plus. … Continue reading → AddyOsmani.com | Articles for [...]

Back to basics: how to code an HTML5 template

March 28th, 2012 (No Comments)

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Can User Experience Be Beautiful? An Analysis Of Navigation In Portfolio Websites

March 26th, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about css3    When users land on your website, they typically read the content available. Then, the next thing that they will do is to try and familiarize themselves with your website. Most of the time this involves looking for navigation. In this article, I’ll be analyzing the navigation elements [...]

Google Says Panda 3.4 Is ‘Rolling Out Now’

March 25th, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about html5 Google has announced the latest in its ongoing updates to the Panda algorithm that targets low-quality websites. And they’ve taken the somewhat novel approach of using Twitter to make this announcement: Panda refresh rolling out now. Only ~1.6% of queries noticeably affected. Background on… Please visit Search Engine [...]

Building Backbone.js Apps With Ruby, Sinatra, MongoDB and Haml

March 24th, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about plugins Introduction In this post we're going to explore writing Backbone.js applications with a Ruby back-end. To assist with this, we're going to use Sinatra – a DSL (domain specific language) for rapidly creating web applications in Ruby. Similar to the … Continue reading → AddyOsmani.com | Articles for [...]

Device-Agnostic Approach To Responsive Web Design

March 23rd, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about css3    This is a different take on Responsive Web design. This article discusses how we can better embrace what the Web is about by ignoring the big elephant in the room; that is, how we can rely on media queries and breakpoints without any concern for devices. The [...]

Big news! I’m joining Google.

March 22nd, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about plugins Some exciting news to share today! I'm joining Google as a Developer Programs Engineer on the Chrome team. I'll be lucky to join an incredibly talented team of developers including Paul Irish, Eric Bidelman and Paul Kinlan (to name but … Continue reading → AddyOsmani.com | Articles for [...]

The Hidden Lever In Paid Search Optimization

March 21st, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about html5 There have been many articles written about paid search optimization, but there is one piece of the optimization puzzle that continually gets left out. The hidden lever in paid search optimization is prioritization. Prioritizing optimization opportunities is equally as important as doing the… Please visit Search Engine Land [...]

How Microsoft Removes “Junk” From Bing Search Results

March 20th, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about html5 Dr. Richard Qian from Bing’s core search team wrote a block post on the Bing Search blog named Bing Search Quality Insights: Reducing Junk. This is part of Bing’s ongoing effort to provide search quality insights on how Bing works. Bing here explains how they handle removing bad [...]

Video: Google’s Susan Wojcicki Keynotes SMX West 2012

March 19th, 2012 (No Comments)

An article I was reading about html5 Susan Wojcicki, Google’s SVP of Advertising, spoke at our recent SMX West search marketing conference in a keynote conversation with Search Engine Land’s Danny Sullivan and Chris Sherman. The conversation covered many different topics — not just the advertising side of Google… Please visit Search Engine Land for [...]