"Following on from part I, I want to put into practice the principles that I isolated by looking at GMail, Twitter and Facebook. I’ll apply the principles to one of the most common of web applications: the online store. I want to look at three typical online store pages and then go through some ideas about how best to apply mobile web design principles to the pages."

"This is the first in a two part look at mobile web design. In part 1, I focus on three current 'big guns' of mobile web applications and look at how they solve the problems of mobile web application design by getting to the point."

"Want to automatically detect mobile devices that access your Rails application? Mobile Fu allows you to do just that. People can access your site from a Palm, Blackberry, iPhone, iPad, Nokia, etc. and it will automatically adjust the format of the request from :html to :mobile."

"This article is intended to help you develop effective design strategies to target a diverse range of mobile devices and screen sizes. To this end, we begin with an outline of two key issues you will encounter when designing for small screens—the diversity in screen and pixel size."

"Mustache is a logic-less templating system for HTML, config files, anything."

"I'm just slowly moving past my BLT binge, which consumed nearly all of my sandwich-making capabilities for the whole summer. Luckily, I ran into some figs at the produce shop, and before I knew it I was at the Chocolate and Zucchini site, gawking at this warm sandwich. How could I not go for this? It seemed soothing and a perfect dish for the slight cool in the air."

"iCuke allows you to test an iPhone application with cucumber. It provides a selection of step definitions similar to those provided for testing web applications."

I made no tweaks for Kindle per se; the Kindle is simply responding to a line of markup I’ve been putting into my web pages since 2007—namely, the viewport meta element, which controls the width of the viewport, thus enabling mobile devices with a limited number of pixels to focus all available pixels on your site’s core content (instead of, for instance, wasting part of the small screen on a background color, image, or gradient). The technique is as simple as web design gets:

meta name="viewport" content="width=770"

"These Grilled Baby Backs with Sweet Soy Glaze from Steven Raichlen's Planet Barbecue! are adapted from Naughty Nuri's Warung, a restaurant in Bali with a crowd of martini-swilling expats and a proprietress with a deft hand when it comes to grilling. Reading the intro to the recipe left me with an urge to book a flight to Bali and a serious hankering for some ribs."

"I am addicted to this dish. Usually I have to cook so many new dishes a week, I don't have time to revisit the really impressive ones. But I've made an exception for this one. I understand on paper it doesn't sound like it should work. The recipe from Eggs On Sunday uses a lot of maple syrup, Too sticky sweet? Nope, everything is balanced by the cider vinegar and black peppercorns, which transform into this rich, meaty glaze that miraculously makes each bite taste like the best rib eye you can imagine."

"I really hate that I still have food hang-ups. Don't get me wrong, the Josh from five years ago would marvel at what the Josh of today includes in his diet, but I still have such a long way to go to be the eater I aspire to. One of those absolutely silly things I've never been able to get over is peanut sauce. I love peanut butter, I love meat, but for some reason if the two were put together, it's not going in my mouth. It came time to crush this aversion into oblivion, and these beef satay skewers did just the trick."

"That is where 5 Heads of Garlic Roast Chicken comes in. I've always been an ardent admirer of the rotisserie chickens you find on the streets in Paris, and I always seek to achieve the same burnished gloss in my roast chickens at home. The secret is, as it always is, butter. I make a compound butter stocked with thyme and two heads of roasted garlic. Over and under the skin, it makes the chicken moist inside and crispy outside. Garlic perfumes the pan sauces, and more roasted garlic nestles in the pan instead of onions or potatoes. Serve it with a crusty country loaf, and you're done. Bye-bye, summertime!"

"Ever since The Food Lab uncovered the baking powder for crispy wings trick, I've been rocking grilled wings all the time. With my wings now near perfection—my wife even suggests them anytime we have company, her sly way of getting more for herself—I've been branching out beyond the usual buffalo and trying out different sauces. The latest, and greatest, incarnation were wings slathered in a honey chipotle glaze."

"In reading about the lives of history’s great men, one thing I’ve noticed is that many of them had a place they could go to be alone with their thoughts. Some of these men had a study where they would retreat to think, read, and write. Others had a garage or workshop where they would tinker and experiment. But what all these rooms had in common was their sheer manliness. They were man spaces, places a man could call his own."

"This time of year there is a lot of hubbub about stone fruits, berries, corn, and tomatoes, but I'd like to take a moment to talk about two vegetables that don't get too much summertime recognition—the beet and Swiss chard."

"When I opened up Cooking the Cowboy Way in search of dinner, I had one thing in mind: steak. I found more recipes than I could count, but was drawn to this simple recipe with big flavors: a spicy, salty-sweet rub and a disc of compound butter melted over it."

How to learn C in Xcode.

"Nine times out of ten, the owners of the devices had confused looks when I said, 'open your web browser and go to www.brooklynmuseum.org.' I was floored at how much confusion was created just simply getting people to open their mobile browser. Once we’d get through that, the idea of bookmarking it to the home screen was even more foreign. At almost every turn, visitors were expecting an app."

"The following is a good overview of some of the things entrepreneurs should be doing before, during, and after their product launch."

"The Khan Academy is a not-for-profit organization with the mission of providing a high quality education to anyone, anywhere."

"We have 1400+ videos on YouTube covering everything from basic arithmetic and algebra to differential equations, physics, chemistry, biology and finance which have been recorded by Salman Khan."

set guitablabel=%t

defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMTabOptimumWidth 300
defaults write org.vim.MacVim MMTabMinWidth 150

"Modernizr is a small and simple JavaScript library that helps you take advantage of emerging web technologies (CSS3, HTML 5) while still maintaining a fine level of control over older browsers that may not yet support these new technologies."

"Rechis said that when Google plans to launch a mobile application, it looks at the potential app through six layers:

1. Understanding users, anywhere, anytime

2. Fits in your pocket

3. More personal than the PC

4. Consistency across modes

5. Localization is intensified

6. Integrated devices, modes, products"

"A new feature being introduced in HTML 5 is the addition of custom data attributes. This is a, seemingly, bizarre addition to the specification - but actually provides a number of useful benefits."

"Simply, the specification for custom data attributes states that any attribute that starts with 'data-' will be treated as a storage area for private data (private in the sense that the end user can't see it - it doesn't affect layout or presentation)."

"A recent post that was highly ranked on Hacker News complained about common git workflows causing him serious pain. While I won’t get into the merit of his user experience complaints, I do want to talk about his specific use-case and how I personally work with it in git."

"GitX is a git GUI made for Mac OS X. It currently features a history viewer much like gitk and a commit GUI like git gui. But then in silky smooth OS X style!"

"Also called guided navigation and faceted search, the faceted navigation model leverages metadata fields and values to provide users with visible options for clarifying and refining queries. Faceted navigation is arguably the most significant search innovation of the past decade."

"This is a full bodied cheese with a nutty flavor and smooth texture. The cheese is hand rubbed with a Turkish grind of Colorado Legacy Coffee Company's (The Cheesemakers brother) 'Beehive Blend'. The blend consists of a mix of South American, Central American, and Indonesian beans roasted to different styles. French Superior Lavendar buds are ground with the coffee and the mixture is diluted with oil to suspend the dry ingredients in the rub. The rub imparts notes of butterscotch and caramel which are prevalent near the rind, but find their way to the center of the cheese. The cheese is aged on Utah Blue Spruce aging racks in our humidity controlled caves, and moved to different temperature during the aging process to develop texture and flavor. The name 'Barely Buzzed' comes from Andrea at Deluxe Foods in California. She was the winner of the name this cheese contest."

"Roasting a chicken is one of the most indispensable skills that a cook can hone, and no one has been championing the simple joys of a roast chicken more than Thomas Keller. So it's not surprising Keller chose to contribute a recipe for One-Pot Roast Chicken to In The Green Kitchen by Alice Waters, a collection of essential skills for home cooks."

"Spreedly handles everything you need to make money - initial signup, upgrades, cancellations, etc. - so you can build your business and not a billing system."

"How do we build blazingly fast, desktop-class web applications? SproutCore is your answer."

The pizzas served at Otto, Mario Batali's New York City pizzeria, might not be made in a way that the VPN or many pizza purists might agree with, but the technique that they've developed is a boon to any aspiring home pizza-maker.

"This is a signature dish at Al Di La, the popular Brooklyn Italian eatery, and one that I love to order. The jewel-colored beet filling shines through the delicate pasta, just bidding to be eaten. These ravioli are so sublimely delicious, I always want more. Now I can make and eat as many as I want at home, and you can too."

"I’ll show you how to create an offline HTML5 iPhone application. More specifically, I’ll walk you through the process of building a Tetris game."

"HTML5 and CSS3 give new features to us and in this post I list down some wonderful tools, cheat sheets and much more so that you can master these new features."

"Story Mapper helps you visualize and focus on the big picture, showing your agile project as sequential milestones. It's designed to work in concert with Tracker's excellent backlog management for stories, bugs and chores."

"Being a lover of Tex-Mex and Southwest cooking, I find Bobby Flay's recipes enticing whenever flipping through his books. Although I let the sometimes lengthy ingredient lists and long processes stop me from cooking the most intriguing recipes, every now and then I decide to give it a go, like these Spanish spice-rubbed chicken breasts with parsley-mint sauce (quite the mouthful)."

"Rose Gray, the late chef of London's River Café, had a thing for flourless chocolate cakes. The River Café's signature dessert was called the Chocolate Nemesis, a concoction of chocolate, butter, and eggs that was more of a sliceable truffle than an actual cake. In Italian Easy there are no fewer than five recipes for variations on this incredibly rich and chocolaty dessert."