What are you working on? v7 - Developers

[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;35235446]Neck deep in RSpec right now writing a bunch of tests for some fairly complicated search functionality.[/QUOTE] I don't get why people use rspec. It just seems like Test::Unit dressed up a little bit

[QUOTE=swift and shift;35236964]I don't get why people use rspec. It just seems like Test::Unit dressed up a little bit[/QUOTE] It's largely dressed up, but I definitely think it's nicer to use so I use it. Context and describe blocks are sexy.

[QUOTE=xmariusx;35235474]Try to make the text-shadow only at the top, if u want it engraved.[/QUOTE] [img]http://puu.sh/lNCB[/img] I've gotten rid of it for now, and I have a slightly less revolting colour scheme.

Got bored made an attempt on making a basis for a future personal site. What do you guys think? [url]http://hrvoje.microskip.com/Hrvoje/[/url] [IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/awu93b.png[/IMG]

Text that wide is annoying to read.

[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;35237780]Text that wide is annoying to read.[/QUOTE] Half of the content element will probably be filled with images. It is set to 100% width tho so no idea how it looks on bigger resolutions. Wish I had something then better then my 1366x768 to test on.

[QUOTE=Miljaker;35238222]Half of the content element will probably be filled with images. It is set to 100% width tho so no idea how it looks on bigger resolutions. Wish I had something then better then my 1366x768 to test on.[/QUOTE] Try giving it a max width so that it doesn't get so wide

I had an interesting idea for writing an article about web page optimization by completely separating dynamic content from static content. All static content would be cached completely and the dynamic content is inserted through an AJAX request. For example, the wired.com frontpage takes no less than 3,5 seconds to load for me and requires requests from 16 (!) different domains. I want to see how much that can be improved upon by applying this technique. Do you think that's a good/interesting idea?

dynamic content is easy to make fast wired, techcrunch, gawker, et al. are only slow as fuck because the developers are incompetent

[QUOTE=inconspicious;35237153][img]http://puu.sh/lNCB[/img] I've gotten rid of it for now, and I have a slightly less revolting colour scheme.[/QUOTE] If you are after engraved text, its a 1px shadow on the inside top and left edge of the text, and a 1px external highlight (so for the brown it would be something between brown and white) on the bottom and right edge, has to be on the outside of the text to look right though rather than on the inside.

I wouldn't change it though. It looks fine the way it is now.

[QUOTE=Overv;35243269]I had an interesting idea for writing an article about web page optimization by completely separating dynamic content from static content. All static content would be cached completely and the dynamic content is inserted through an AJAX request. For example, the wired.com frontpage takes no less than 3,5 seconds to load for me and requires requests from 16 (!) different domains. I want to see how much that can be improved upon by applying this technique. Do you think that's a good/interesting idea?[/QUOTE] Asynchronous requests will actually increase server load and page load times.. you're better off learning how to cache your shit properly and doing it the "normal" way. Your wired.com example is bad, as it loads in ~100ms for me which is perfectly acceptable.

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;35247200]Asynchronous requests will actually increase server load and page load times.. you're better off learning how to cache your shit properly and doing it the "normal" way. Your wired.com example is bad, as it loads in ~100ms for me which is perfectly acceptable.[/QUOTE] Doesn't make it more acceptable to do this by just loading the frontpage though: [img]http://puu.sh/lTX4[/img] Could you describe how a single asynchronous request to fetch the content would slow down the server?

That's almost all advertisers and analytics

[QUOTE=Overv;35247417] Could you describe how a single asynchronous request to fetch the content would slow down the server?[/QUOTE] Instead of handling one request you have to handle two. The overhead on requests is a lot bigger than the overhead of a decent caching system. jeez how much analytics do those guys really need though lol

They include quite a few @font-faces, that would add considerable initial load time.

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;35248320]Instead of handling one request you have to handle two. The overhead on requests is a lot bigger than the overhead of a decent caching system. jeez how much analytics do those guys really need though lol[/QUOTE] I'd be willing to bet a lot of the extra analytics stuff is analytics for the ads. [editline]22nd March 2012[/editline] Photoshop CS6 beta is out on adobe labs

[QUOTE=KmartSqrl;35249121]Photoshop CS6 beta is out on adobe labs[/QUOTE] It finally includes dotted and dashed lines.

Made a loading page for a garrysmod minecraft server: [url]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/3720666/minecraft_loading/index.html[/url] SetFilesNeeded(10); DownloadingFile("test1.txt"); DownloadingFile("test2.txt"); in console to make it do something.

[t]http://i.jung3o.com/img_172127.png[/t] [t]http://i.jung3o.com/img_172159.png[/t] pls r8 me a winner now.

I built this years and years ago (probably 2007ish?) It's at: zomgstuff.net Here's a sample: [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/TcKNV.png[/IMG] Can I haz winner too? I've probably still got the source code for the vBulletin plugin somewhere.

[img]http://i.imgur.com/tnL1l.png[/img] is this shit y/n, be honest i like it but i feel like if i judge it objectively its a piece of shit and i'm only defending it because of the "its my work and my work is good" complex

Change the navigation font. Capitalization, at the moment it makes you look really amateurish. White space on top of "meet the team" should be the same as the white space separating the first two sentences. Other than that looks great and has some potential.

wow that was a lot more positive than i expected to be honest, thanks the lack of capitalization was an intentional thing, i felt like it fit with the "minimal" style but it's probably become too much of a gimmick at this point

nothing wrong with no capitals

[QUOTE=Catdaemon;35248320]Instead of handling one request you have to handle two. The overhead on requests is a lot bigger than the overhead of a decent caching system. jeez how much analytics do those guys really need though lol[/QUOTE] You're looking at it wrong You load the frontend (styles, template, etc) first. Then you retrieve only the content. When you click a link to another 'page' on the site, it retrieves the content and only the content - which can also be cached, not like just because it's JSON or something else you can't cache it. And of course you can have a fairly long cache period on the frontend part of it, seeing as that never changes. You're only fetching stuff that varies from page to page. Would work really well for TVTropes.

except that loading like a kb or two of extra html is nothing

[QUOTE=swift and shift;35256831]except that loading like a kb or two of extra html is nothing[/QUOTE] Never said that wasn't true, only that I believed he'd misconstrued the issue

Not much, but I made it all by myself. :) [img]http://i.imgur.com/afsmC.png[/img]

"We'll pay you $400" [img]http://i.imgur.com/vAnvH.png[/img] :downs: