I was trying to get into Mobile UX design panel. Sadly it was overcrowded by the time I got there. I went to Ballroom B with 10 minutes to spare which wasn't enough. The room was full by then!

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  Wordpress.com faced the worst downtime ie. 110 minutes in the last four years. It affected 10.2 million blogs and 5.5 million pageviews are lost. It looks like there was an unscheduled change to a core router by one of their datacenter providers and the change screwed up their network and the site got broken. Simultaneously, it breaks the failover mechasnism between WP location at San Antonio and Chicago. The company further says that although, they could not serve the data, but the data is safe and secure. Wordpress is trying to figure out what exactly happened so that in future, they can isolate the problem and the fault at one location will not affect the other location.

I was surprised to find Selenium Tutorial as a popular search with Google users today. Couple of years back I had written a detailed tutorial on Selenium IDE and Selenium Remote Control which is still valid and can offer you a short and strong introduction to Selenium IDE in less than 5 minutes.

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I don't know what is more disturbing, that TechCrunch employs children ( "not a legal adult" ) to write posts on their highly respected blog ( "This was not one of our full time writers, and so the frequency of posts was light." ) or that the "not a legal adult" decided to ask for bribe to write a post on a startup.

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When planning to build a mobile version of website you need to consider the diversity of mobile ecosystem. Launching a mobile website version would involve the screen size, browsers and connection speed, which is remarkably different from a desktop environment. Form choosing mobile friendly URL to designing a mobile-optimized layout using CSS and HTML, building a mobile version of website takes multi-facet effort. Adding to the hassles, the next gen phones are upgrading faster than you can ever think of. Clearly you don't have a hint of what mobile your site viewers will have next. Given that the iPhone is enjoying a good market, mobile phones with Google's Android having variety of screen sizes are also gaining mommentum.  At this juncture, making a mobile friendly website is becoming more intricate. We decided to workout some simple tips that would resolve the complexities in making a mobile version of website. Full article (831 words) »