Besides moving to our new office these additional four things caught our attention. Enjoy!
Drupal
Forum One: Drupal is Among the Big Boys in Open Source Communities
A recent survey by Black Duck Software concluded that Drupal doesn't have to be modest when comparing itself with other open source communities. With 25,146 contributes it easily outnumbers projects like Apache and Mozilla.
Opinion
.net magazine: 5 reasons why the web tracking debate matters
Keith Butters gives his view on why the web tracking debate is relevant to a broader audience than you might think.
Design
Smashing Magazine: Repurposing Photoshop For The Web
Dan Rose might have found a middle way in the dogmatic battle between designing in the browser and designing in Photoshop.
Tweets that cut through the noise
Mindblowing. The corporate world would do better to wake up...#adobesummit twitter.com/comboeuf/statu…
— Patrick Comboeuf (@comboeuf) April 24, 2013
Behind the Scenes
We moved in to our new office on Friday. This photo by our developer Boris Baldinger captured the calm before the storm.
This week the following stories caught our attention. Enjoy!
Marketing
Mashable: 'Epicurious' Enrages Followers With Boston Bombings Tweets
In the aftermath of Monday's horrific events at the Boston Marathon one brand managed to outsmart itself. It just makes you wonder why showing poor taste during tragedies repeatedly appears to be a "great opportunity" to spread you message.
Design
.net magazine: Hover is dead, long live hover
Advancement in technology can mean the decline of a trusted friend. This article takes a look at destiny of hover states.
Medium: Why you should move that button 3px to the left
Braden Kowitz argues that as fussy as pointing out minor design bugs might appear, in the big picture it can make a difference. Nevertheless it has to be a long-term mindset and not just about pothole fixing.
Drupal
Cafuego: Sponsorship Success Metric
Peter Lieverdink, a Melbourne based Drupal contributor, gives an alternative view why sponsoring a DrupalCon isn't a waste of money.
Behind the Scenes
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This week's five stories stem from the world of finance, technology and marketing. Hopefully something down your lane. Enjoy!
Finance
If you didn't get the buzz surrounding Bitcoin this week, Duncan Elms' excellent explanation will bring you up to date. For the ones new to the financial markets we'd like to add this article on the Tulip Mania.
Zurich
Züri wie neu
In late 2010 Zurich's city council launched an e-participation contest where all citizens were invited to contribute their ideas. This week one of the winning project suggestions, a "FixMyStreet" for Zurich, was released.
Technology
Google Street View Hyperlapse
Hyperlapse videos, an evolution out of the traditional time lapse video, are certainly a growing trend. The guys from Teehan+Lax tried to merge the technique with Google Street View and clearly succeeded in doing so. Try it, it's fun.
Opinion
.net Magazine: What the new TLDs mean for brands and consumers
Later this year a bunch of new top-level domains (TLD) make their public appearance on the world wide web. Roland LaPlante, Chief Marketing Officer at Afilias, gives his view on the significance of the possibilities.
Tweets that cut through the noise
Spot on, Sir!
Best. Flowchart. EVER! #ias13 twitter.com/jcolman/status…
— Jonathon Colman (@jcolman) April 7, 2013
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Dear Reader, this week's edition takes a look at a dispute in the world of web design approaches, how coding will be part of many childhood memories and a humorous take on how a Facebook Home could look like.
Responsive Web Design
Six Revisions: Responsive Web Design is Not the Future
Josh Chan, a Melbourne based Senior Digital Specialist, launched an attack on the responsive web design approach while claiming it is just a fad.
Brad Frost: A Response to ‘Responsive Web Design is Not the Future’
This lead one of the subject's thought leaders to take a moment to reflect on the criticism on his blog.
Infographic
An issue which probably isn't exclusive to the Drupal ecosystem.
Opinion
.net Magazine: Advice for my unborn daughter
Garrett Heath makes a point that coding will become a normal part of children education just as piano practice or dance lessons are.
Last but not least
The Joy of Tech: If Facebook made a real Facebook Home..
While Facebook announced their latest product, in collaboration with HTC, the popular geek comic site imagines how the social networking service would do in the real estate business.
This week the stories that caught our attention range from the myth of the intuitive interface, an odd request and some inspiration what you can do over Easter. Enjoy!
Drupal
Frontend United 2013
If 'Responsive with Drupal', 'Interactive maps / visuals' and 'Twig' 'CSS / HTML / LESS / SaSS / JS / BBQ' are your cup of tea, make sure to secure a ticket. This year's edition of the Drupal frontend developer's conference, will take place in the übercool part of London that is Shoreditch. Our @kcornelius and @daniagerhardt will be there too.
Opinion
Co.Design: Why ‘Intuitive’ Interface Is A Myth
Timoni West, a designer at Foursquare, makes a point that teaching new interactions shouldn't be frowned upon. Just don't make the learning curve steep.
Gadgets
Gizmodo: The First 6 People Who’ll Get Google Glass
This week Google announced their first picks of their #IfIHadGlass campaign. Safe to say that they went for a quite diverse mix.
Knowledge is porridge
Quora: What is something useful I can learn right now in 10 minutes that would be useful for the rest of my life?
Not sure what to do over Easter? Here's a list of things you can expand your horizon with.
Tweets that cut through the noise
Paul Haddad, software developer and creator of Tweetbot, had his mind boggled by a "customer's" request.
The little faith I have in humanity is somewhat restored. twitter.com/tapbot_paul/st…
— Paul Haddad (@tapbot_paul) March 26, 2013
This week's edition takes a look at the question if openness can scale, Twitter's latest feat and gives Google Reader's former Product Manager a voice. Enjoy!
Drupal
TimOnWeb: 8 Awesome Drupal Snippets I Wish I Knew Before
A few issues ago we featured Tim Kamanin's initiative Dropbucket.org. In the meantime the Drupal snippet repository has grown and the initiator took a moment to select his eight favourite snippets.
Commerce Guys: Commerce Kickstart - Visualizing the birth of a distro
Commerce Guys' Nicolas Meyer visualized, with the help of Gource and the powers of their software version control tool, the collaborative history of the Drupal Commerce Kickstart distribution.
Technology
The Verge: Twitter gets a patent on... Twitter
In the week Twitter turned seven, the microblogging service made the headlines for different reasons.
Food for thought
Accelerating reinventions: Openness does not scale
Laurent Haug reflects on the experiences he made with the Lift Conference.
Opinion
Quora: Why is Google killing Google Reader?
Question-and-answer service Quora might not be one of the social media platforms which is particularly well known in the mainstream. Nevertheless some interesting answers were provided on last week's hot button issue.
Despite SXSW having yielded a torrent of interesting items this week - we opted to take off the Austin biased blinkers for this issue. Enjoy!
Design
New York Times: Introducing A New Article Design
The New York Times granted the general public a glimpse of its redesign this week. Admittedly it looks gorgeous but let's see if it manages to be as game-changing as the Boston Globe's introduction of Responsive Design in 2011.
SEO
Charles Lewis - Page Rank
If reading isn't your preferred method of gaining knowledge - give this a go. Charles Lewis aka SEO Rapper will teach you the essentials of Google's PageRank in the next two and a half minutes.
Technology
Techcrunch: Google Closes The Book On Google Reader On July 1, Seven Other Products Also Get The Chop
This week Google announced the closure of its popular RSS reader service. Anyone else feel reminded of Yahoo's supposed shut down of Delicious? Regardless it might be time to move to a new service or just take control of your feeds with this Drupal workaround.
NBC PhotoBlog: Witnessing papal history changes with digital age
Ever wondered how the world of technology infiltrated everyday life in the last eight years? Just compare these two pictures of 2005 and last Wednesday of the Catholic faithful at St. Peter's Basilica and it becomes obvious.
Tweets that cut through the noise
Less than 24 hours after Acquia's cold calling gaffe, CMO Tom Wentworth already was able to see the lighter side...
@dries I can create a crisis if you’d like?
— Tom Wentworth (@twentworth12) March 14, 2013
Dear reader, this week's edition takes a look at a creative recruiting initiative, Facebook's latest announcement and why the Swiss word of the year "shitstorm" probably doesn't represent the public opinion once it occurs. Enjoy!
Jobs
Forbes: Pizza Hut To Hold 140-Second Interviews For Social Media Manager Position At SXSW
The well known Pizza franchise is trying to recruit a new "Manager of Digital Greatness" in an unique fashion. If you are looking for something more Drupal related - we've got a vacancy too.
Drupal
DrupalCon Portland 2013: Accepted Sessions
DrupalCon Portland is only two months away. If you are heading to Portland, like some of us will, you can start building your schedule now.
DrupalEasy Podcast: Vice President of Drupal
Episode 100 of the DrupalEasy podcast features Angie Byron as a guest. A great listen if you want to learn more about some behind the scenes activities of the Drupal community.
Social Media
The Verge: Facebook redesigns News Feed with multiple feeds and 'mobile-inspired' interface
This week Facebook introduced that is about to launch a redesigned News Feed. If you want you can already join the waiting list to be one of the first users of the feature. Just don't mention that it looks like Google+...
Food for thought
Wired.co.uk: Twitter debates don't represent opinions of general public
A study conducted by the Pew Research Centre has shown that despite Twitter being the fastest growing social platform its regular storms of controversy don't necessarily have to represent the public opinion. It might sound like common sense but sometimes reminders of this nature are helpful.
It's been a cold month here in Switzerland. Nevertheless here are five things which warmed warmed our cockles this week. Enjoy!
Inspiration
Niice. A search engine with taste.
If using Google's image search annoys you due to its uninspiring results - give search engine a go. Niice is the self proclaimed search engine with good taste.
Drupal
Drupal Snippets Repository | Dropbucket.org
Sharing is an important necessity in every open-source project. With that in mind Tim Kamanin started this initiative to make sharing of Drupal code snippets easier.
Content Management Systems (CMS)
Friendly Machine: Drupal Gains Market Share
John Hannah crunched the numbers on W3Techs' CMS monthly stats. Despite Drupal's future looking rosy there is still a long way to go to reach the 10% market share.
Technology
The Next Web: Dropbox: 1 billion files are now being uploaded every day
We all know the big numbers which the likes of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube generate. Here is one you probably don't know yet.
Unfortunate domain of the week
wtflucerne.org
Seriously, or should we actually say WTF? Abbreviating World Tourism Forum Lucerne for ones domain to wtflucerne.org should have raised an eyebrow with every web savvy person involved.
Pages
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DanielBy the way, by "no documentation" I´m referring to Views Autorefresh. It is either not complete or conflicting.
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Daniel
Thanks for this info, but can't get it working with Statuses view. There is just about no documentation or it's conflicting, even from module maintainer (on Drupal vs. Blog). I'm using the default Statuses block, which only autorefreshes the current user's status updates, does not autorefresh friends' status updates (that is how it normally works). So I added Views Autorefresh. I have tried using the maintainer's instructions, but don't get a Secondary Display on the original view unless I have a Page display within that same view. Have you tried with Statuses? Just to confirm your steps:
1. First, I clone the original view and ADD a Contextual filter. In mine it is Statuses Comments: Created time (with operator).
2. ADD to the cloned view the Global: Text Area, PHP. Nothing else in the Header. Have also tried it with a simple Global: Autorefresh.
2. In the ORIGINAL view, I ADD the same Global: Text Area, PHP code. Nothing else in the Header or contextual filters?I've tried just about every variation and nothing works. Can you offer any advice?
Thanks
DanielPermalink18.05.2013
Essence of a web week: Issue 65
0This week's edition takes a look at the following subjects: What life is like without the internet, Switzerland's new top-level domain and interesting mobile related sessions at the forthcoming DrupalCon. Enjoy!
Food for thought
The Verge: I’m still here: back online after a year without the internet
Paul Miller, a Senior Editor at the Verge, decided twelve months ago to leave the internet for a year. This week he reflects on his experiences.
Switzerland
admin.ch: Green light for implementation of .swiss internet domain names
The Swiss Government announced its outlook on the handling of the .swiss top-level domain. You can expect to see it in the wild in late 2014.
Little Helper
Responsive Inspector
If Chrome is your browser of choice this plugin promises to be quite handy while developing responsive websites.
Drupal
Four Kitchens: DrupalCon Portland: Mobile Roundup
DrupalCon Portland is only a few weeks away. To get the most out of the mobile and responsive design topics at the conference, Four Kitchens' Ian Carrico has created an overview of the sessions you shouldn not miss.
Tweets that cut through the noise
Usability testing 101 one would assume.
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