Chris Degiere and Associates

Well it’s been a busy few months with the new baby and new work taking most all of my time. How to quickly recap? How about a peek at my Delicious links or my Twitter stream.

Noteworthy Links

- Ext JS – Blog

http://extjs.com/blog/2008/03/31/implementation-spotlight-jama-contour/

- Ext + Java + Spring + DWR – Ext JS Forums

http://extjs.com/forum/showthread.php?t=5586

- Firebug Console Object and API

http://getfirebug.com/console.html

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Competitive research and traffic analysis is an important part of launching a new site or web app.

I did a quick study that uses source code search sites as the subject for comparison. Here I  highlight some key metrics from these two Firefox add-ons:

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There are a number of online emulators available to test your mobile web applications once they are deployed. Opera Mini has an online demo at http://www.operamini.com/demo/ for example.

When developing locally it’s helpful to do some functional and visual design and layout testing before deploying.

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Here’s two trend analysis examples from two different sources that I use regularly.

The first is based on job posting keywords which is useful to gauge how marketable your skill set is or how likely you are to find staff given the skills you require. Here’s a simple example. Go Java!

via: indeed.com

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Here’s a really great visualization of the top level domains of the world listed by iso country code and sized by population.

Via: Bytelevel and BoingBoing.