Make a diet, serve just one CSS and one JS

October 3, 2009 by nuno costa 4 comments

I’ve talked about how you can speed up your web site by serving less files, now its time to get our hands dirty and see how we can easily combine several files into one.

This will prove to be a very simple but handy addition to your toolkit.

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The problem with big displays

September 4, 2009 by nuno costa 4 comments

I’m a proud member of the dual monitor club.

Actually  I was forced in to this club, but that’s another story.

And it’s so much better than one BIG screen.

Believe me, BIG displays are becoming a reality and a BIG problem, display prices are getting lower while their area is increasing.

It’s no longer monetary viable to buy 17’’ or 15’’ monitors as they are almost the same price as a 20’’ one and soon a 30’’ will be about the same price, and so on.

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Don’t comment your code

August 20, 2009 by nuno costa 8 comments

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I’ve seen a lot of “beginners best practices” advising to comment your code to exhaustion. To comment every single line of it, so in the future you know what you where doing!

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Know your audience, use your site!

August 17, 2009 by nuno costa no comments

There are things you don’t know about your site until you actually start using it.

Here are some lessons I’ve learned over the time, they help me to build easier to follow web sites.

Learn this and you will make your audience happier and willing to come back!

 

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C is for cookies …

July 20, 2009 by nuno costa 1 comment

Are you hungry ?
let’s eat some cookies

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