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Last week Michael Schmid, our Head Technology, spoke about Responsive Web Design at the ONE Conference in Zurich. Here are the slides of his presentation "Responsive Web Design - Ein Überblick".
You might have gathered from this blog post's title that the presentation was held in front of a German speaking audience. But if you are interested in learning more about this subject, we can recommend the video of the Responsive Web Design Aqcuia Webinar to which Michael & Kathryn contributed.
Trying to shun the rumblings created by the upcoming Facebook Initial Public Offering (IPO) would have been a hard task. So in this week's edition two of the five items are dedicated to the most anticipated IPO of the year. Enjoy.
Wired: Facebook 'App Center' lets developers sell web and mobile apps
Probably not that much of a surprise that Facebook made this monetisation related announcement one week ahead of its Initial Public Offering.
New York Magazine: No, Facebook Has Not Already Peaked
If you are skeptical what the future has to offer for Facebook once it has reached it's peak. This article might remind you that the mass is one of the social network's key assets.
Infographic
Wake Up Call – If You Spend It, They Will Come
While the mobile app hype machine got refueled with the Facebook announcement this week. App Promo's info graphic gives an overview on the current state of the market from a developer's view.
Tweets that cut through the noise.
Don't call it "Mobile Web"!
Every time I hear "Mobile Web" I'm going to make someone write "There is no Mobile Web" 400 times on the chalkboard. Then 400 more. #oneWeb
— Molly E. Holzschlag (@mollydotcom) May 7, 2012
Utilise pain to generate revenue
This is a genius tactic to encourage users to buy your app: twitter.com/jakemarsh/stat…
— Jake Marsh (@jakemarsh) May 9, 2012
In this week's edition Responsive Design makes a comeback, our latest Drupal Code Sprint gains prominent support, and a story from the UK shows how deeply embedded Facebook has become in daily life.
Drupal
Drupal.org: Google announces Summer of Code results for 2012 - Drupal gets 13 projects!!
Among the 13 accepted Drupal projects for Google's Summer of Code there's one that might be familiar to you, our dear reader. A new feature to the "Translation Management Tool" has made the cut.
Responsive Design
Palantir: Scalable Navigation Patterns in Responsive Web Design
Fellow Drupal agency Palantir shares some of their Responsive Web Design learnings regarding scalable navigation patterns.
Webmonkey: Responsive Web Design: What Not to Do
This is an addition to .net magazine's article Five responsive web design pitfalls to avoid.
Technology
BBC: Bouncers 'checking Facebook on phones' as identification
A pragmatic approach to verify if the person is the actual owner of the ID. As practical as it appears it shouldn't creep in as a common practice.
Advertising
Monday Note: Advertising: The trust Factor
Frédéric Filloux gives his opinion on what the results of Nielsen's "The Global Trust in Advertising" mean.
With pride we announce that our little company has attracted another experienced developer. This week Boris Baldinger has taken up work and synchronously stopped smoking. Cheers mate! Good to have you onboard.
Switzerland's new trade fair for Internet, e-commerce, social media and online marketing ONE, will take place next week (9 - 10 May) in Zurich. If you're planning to attend the simultaneous conference, don't miss Michael Schmid, our Head Technology. He will be a speaker in the mobile development track on Thursday afternoon.
His talk on "Responsive Web Design: Implementierung Dos & Don'ts" will cover all important aspects including the advantages and disadvantages compared to native apps. Interested? Register via the "ONE Konferenz's" website.
But there are more goodies for you. We have two free tickets for Michael's session. Drop an intellectually stimulating comment below this post until Monday 7 May lunch time (CET) for a chance to win a free admission.
Dear reader we hope you had a great week. Here are five stories that caught our attention:
Food for thought
Wired: French tweeters use WWII-inspired codes to post election results
Evidence, once again, that the kids who branded history lessons as a waste of time missed a trick.
Project Management
Dev.Opera: Responsive web design: a project management perspective
What does responsive design mean for project-managers. This comprehensive blog post by Rudy Rigot tries to shed light on this topic.
Technology
Guardian: Financial Times passes 2m users for its HTML5 web app
When Financial Times released its HTML5 app it created some attention for ditching the traditional native app approach. 10 months later it has passed the 2m users mark.
Opinion
Dries Buytaert: Microsoft's investment means Open Source is no longer a community, it is a movement
Dries Buytaert, creator of Drupal, shares his thought on what this investment means for the future of Open Source.
Drupal
Krimson: An overview of changes in Display Suite 7.x-2.x
One of the contributed modules we like to use is Display Suite. The module will receive improvements with the release of version 7.x-2.x. Here is an overview which includes a 15min screencast.
As Picasso said, "Good Artists Copy, Great Artists Steal". Keep that in mind when reading one of the items in this weeks edition of an Essence of a web week...
Copycats
Amazee Labs: Copycat Hall Of Shame
Our website has often been shamelessly copied in the past. This week we started a Hall of Shame on our Facebook page. Expect the collection to be extended in the future.
Drupal
DrupalCon Munich: Call for Papers
The European Drupalcon has published a reminder that you can propose a session until May 11.
Blog worth subscribing to
swisstype | Typography seen in Switzerland
Switzerland is renowned for it's contribution to the world of typography. This blog is dedicated to beautiful typography on the streets of Switzerland.
Technology
Economist: Patents into ploughshares
Twitter announced this week, in a quite public manner, the " Patent Agreement". This is what the Economist makes of the move.
Wired.co.uk: RapidShare's anti-piracy manifesto would make users guilty until proven innocent
While filehoster RapidShare published its anti-piracy manifesto. Which according to Wired journalist Mark Brown is against the presumption of innocence.
We are proud to announce that the Amazee Labs team has grown by two new members! George Papadongonas and Lukas Abegg will add man power to our tech team.
George, who hails from Greece, isn't a spring chicken on Drupal. He is a registered member on Drupal.org for almost four and a half years and therefore brings a lot of valuable experience to the team.
While Lukas joined to complete the practical part of his information technician apprenticeship with us and seems to have picked up the Drupal flu pretty fast.
Most items in this week's edition are in some way related to our beloved Drupal. Regardless of that the buzzword of the week "Instagram" also managed to make an appearance.
Drupal
hojtsy.hu: Navigating your way in Drupal core development
Gábor Hojtsy, Drupal 8's multilingual initiative leader, has created a overview on what you have to look out for when contributing to the Drupal Core.
Bluespark Labs: Do you want a PM day at Drupalcon?
Ever wondered how other project managers cope with Drupal's specialties? Shannon Vettes has published a blog post on this topic to give project management more exposure at Drupalcons. Additinally she added published this post this week.
Responsive Design
Advomatic: Responsive Design Tips from DrupalCon
A round up of the responsive design related events at Drupalcon Denver. And if you missed Michael & Kathryn's BoF you can watch the Acquia webniar they co-hosted last month.
Opinion
.net magazine: Nielsen is wrong on mobile
Jakob Nielsen's blog post saw some heavy reaction on Twitter this week. Josh Clark argues that regardless of a mobile devices size it can do more than the traditional computer.
Food for thought
BBC: Has Instagram made everyone's photos look the same?
This week pretty much started off with the Facebook taking over Instagram story. This BBC article asks itself if Instagram has made photos on the web look monotonous.
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How to use Views Bulk Operations and view modes at the same time.
0Recently we experienced an inconvenience while creating a view with a Display Suited based short view and tried to implement Bulk Operations on top of it. You might know that VBO can only be implemented via "Views Format: Fields".
1) Go in to the edit mode of your view.
2) To be able to include "Bulk operations" in your view, you will have to select "Fields" as the way each row has to be styled.
3) Add the "Bulk operations" field you require.
4) Add the "Node: Rendered Node" field. (It is provided via the Entity API module).