Twitter recently made some significant changes to its API. For those unfamiliar, an API is like a code library used when you build software. These changes affect every piece of software written to interact with Twitter. While developers paying attention are aware of these things, users often are not. Millions of websites have little Twitter widgets and plugins installed to display their tweets. Some of them are custom built, many aren’t. These widgets and plugins have become so commonplace that many people install them with a single click and are…

The process of designing and developing website and applications is changing. Tools and skillsets are always pushing forward, and the old way of doing things doesn’t cut it anymore. The traditional methodology has many names. Some call it the waterfall, implying the project is like water, flowing down through each department until completion. This is kind of naive, and obviously doesn’t allow anyone to go back upstream for any reason, ever. Others call it an assembly line, in which each department is handed something, does something to it and passes…

The phrase “responsive design” has been getting a lot of attention lately. Conferences are organizing whole sessions around it, Google has come out in support of it (when it makes sense for users) and everyone is scurrying to make sure their website now fits the latest buzzword. But while responsive design may be new to some people, the concepts and technologies involved have been around for years. It also doesn’t help that, most people think responsive design just means that your website resizes itself depending on the width of your…