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The two-sided coin of Web performance
I’ve given Web performance talks where I get to show one of my favorite slides with the impact of third-party dependencies on load time. It’s the perfect use case for “those marketing people,” who...
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Building applications in Azure
Download Azure for Developers. One of the most natural uses of the cloud is for web applications. You may already be using virtual machines on your own systems to make deploying your applications...
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Data science makes an impact on Wall Street
Having started my career in industry, working on problems in finance, I’ve always appreciated how challenging it is to build consistently profitable systems in this extremely competitive domain. When I...
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How we got to the HTTP/2 and HPACK RFCs
Download HTTP/2. SPDY was an experimental protocol, developed at Google and announced in mid-2009, whose primary goal was to try to reduce the load latency of web pages by addressing some of the...
View ArticleTying software and hardware together through art
One of the theses behind our Solid Conference is that the stacks — the ranges of knowledge that technologists need to understand — are expanding so that the formerly separate disciplines of hardware...
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Mind if I interrupt you?
We’ve been claiming information overload for decades, if not centuries. As a species, we’re pretty good at inventing new tools to deal with the problems of increasing information: language, libraries,...
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Protecting health through open data management principles
We are at a threshold in the history of personal data. Sensors and apps are making it possible to generate digital data signatures of important aspects of healthy living, such as movement, nutrition,...
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The state of augmented reality
Screenshot of the Google Sky Map app. Unlike virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR) provides a gateway to a new dimension without the need to leave our physical world behind. We still see the...
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What today’s fitness technology means for tomorrow’s office
At 5:37 a.m., Nina’s alarm softly begins to buzz and glow. It has calculated her recovery time based on her previous day’s workout and monitored her sleep tracker to identify the best point in her REM...
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Cultivating change
Leadership has changed — and in a big way — since the Web started upending the status quo two decades ago. That’s why we’re launching our new Cultivate event; we realized that businesses need new...
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Can I Upgrade my Computer to Windows 10 for Free?
Windows 10, the latest version of Windows, will be released on 29th July. The new Windows OS has received rave reviews from people who are currently testing it as part of the Windows Insider program...
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How to Transcribe Video Files to Text with YouTube
A college professor is looking to transcribe some audio files as text and publish them online. He wrote – “We have some old lectures recorded on reel-to-reel tapes. We have digitized the audio lectures...
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How to Let Others Upload Files to your Dropbox Account
A class teacher needs her students to submit homework at the end of the week. A company wants designers to send the mockups and design drafts for review. A news organization is asking public to upload...
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How to Enable Facial Recognition in your Google Photos
Google Photos, like Facebook or Apple Photos, has built-in facial recognition and the software can automatically organize your photos based on people’s faces. While you cannot assign names to the...
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Google Photos – The Good Parts
When Google launched Gmail in 2004, it bundled 40x more free storage space than competing web mail services. It seemed to solve all storage woes and there was not even a “delete” button in Gmail...
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The Best Websites to Learn Coding Online
The Learn to Code movement has picked up momentum worldwide and that is actually a good thing as even basic programming skills can have a major impact. If you can teach yourself how to write code, you...
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How to Use Google Sheets as an Amazon Price Tracker
The prices of products listed on the Amazon shopping website vary every day and a simple Google Spreadsheet can help you keep monitor and track these price fluctuations via email. Just add the items...
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Essential Apps and Utilities for your Mac
Whether you are a new Mac user or seasoned veteran looking to do more, here’s a collection of essential Mac apps & utilities that you must download on your computer. These apps, most of them are...
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Your Mobile Phone can Detect Earthquakes
Was it just you or did the ground really shake? Your iPhone, iPad and most newer mobile phones can work as basic seismometers, the same instrument that is used to measure the magnitude of earthquakes...
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Protect your Google Accounts with a USB Security Key
Most big-name web services like Gmail, Microsoft, Evernote, WordPress and Dropbox now support 2-step authentication to improve the security of your online accounts. Once you enable two-factor...
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