In the first post of our “Migrate to Bootstrap Journal” we told you about migrating two of our major software products to Twitter Bootstrap v3. In this episode you will hear about our choice to use Twitter Bootstrap and not any other framework like Zurb Foundation or Skeleton.
Welcome to the first entry of our "migrate-to-bootstrap journal" series #mtbj. In this and following posts we will share our know-how which we gained and will gain while migrating our whole Fusonic Connect / Ribbl Community Software product line from a conventional (and outdated) layout system to Twitter Bootstrap v3.
There are lots of reasons to save file size, especially on the mobile web. More space and less traffic on the server. Speed up page rendering and limited bandwidth on the client. But there is a tool to get rid of that problem: trimage - it is free and helps to reduce image size a lot (over 25 % in our tests without loose of quality)! trimage bundles a bunch of image compression libraries, compresses the image and chooses the best result. Currently supporting PNG and JPEG.
A few months ago we launched an online community / social network at querdenker.de using our own software foronline communties. We have always been thinking that we already considered nearly everything which could break our system when beeing accessed by a lot of people concurrently. And we were right. What did break the site when more than 200 people accessed the site in the same minute, it has not…
Having problems with user-responsive, interactive UI's? Sick of confusing and complicated js-code to handle your UI? Knockout is the solution. I first stumbled upon the knockout-library during the implementation of a UI with lots of interactive features, like updating a field if another field changes, displaying areas only if a certain option is set, … Simple actions are very easy to implement…
Fluster2 0.1.1 comes with significant performance improvements and makes map operations (changing zoom mode or dragging the map around) about 15 times faster.
The new clusterer Fluster2 provides marker clustering in Google Maps v3 just like MarkerClusterer did for v2.