It’s that time of the year again and I’m happy to see Advent calendars for many tech communities are still going strong. As in past years (2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, and for some reason skipped 2015), I’ve gathered a few here that I’ll be following this year: 24 ways (web design & development) – Feed awsadvent (Amazon Web Services) – Feed JVM Advent (Java language and JVM) – Feed Perf Planet (performance) – Feed Perl Advent Calendar 2016 (Perl language) – Feed sysadvent (System admin topics) – Feed UXmas (UX for everyone) – no RSS feed In years past I…
Update: For the latest, check out Tech Advent Calendars – 2016 It’s that time of the year again – Advent calendars for many tech communities. As in past years (2011, 2012, 2013), I’ve gathered a few here that should be interesting: * Perf Planet Advent (performance) – Feed * 24ways Advent (web design/development) – Feed * Perl Advent (Perl language) – Feed * Java Advent (Java language) – Feed * UXMas (UX for everyone) – Feed * SysAdvent (Sysadmin) – Feed I have a combined RSS feed (created with Yahoo! Pipes) that picks up all of these advent calendars: http://feeds.feedburner.com/TechAdventCalendars.…
Creating a print stylesheet for your website is a nice optimization that your visitors will appreciate, especially if your site features articles that are longer or are technical in nature. Print stylesheets don’t take too much effort to create and maintain over time along with your site CSS. But what if you’d like to have print stylesheets on someone else’s website? Here’s an approach I’ve used to hack together simple print stylesheets that I’ve sent to other site owners as a contribution. This works very well for personal blogs and open source projects, both of whom are usually open to…
Twitter users should periodically review their application permission settings to clean out any old applications they have authorized. Over time these can pile up and it’s good to clean them out. The steps are simple: Login to Twitter and navigate to the Application Settings page Review the list of applications and click Revoke Access for any you no longer need or don’t remember authorizing
I recently started using Mover.io to back up my blog. Mover is a relatively new service which can migrate or back up between several different cloud services. I’m starting to use it as part of my backup strategy, making sure even files I have “in the cloud” are located in more that one service. To demonstrate the steps, here’s a short screencast in which I add a regular backup task from part of my blog to the Box cloud service,