http://imulus.com/blog Ramblings, Random Thoughts and Coding Goodness Wed, 16 May 2012 20:01:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The good people at Applied Trust created this wonderful illustration of the Boulder Startup Community. This is a great place to live, work and start a business. We're proud to be here. http://imulus.com/blog/george/opinion/hows-this-for-startup-culture/ I recently switched from docking Chrome's dev tools on the bottom of the browser to the right side. I like it better because it gives me more vertical space for inspecting the DOM and debugging JS. One nice side effect of docking on the right is that it makes developing responsive ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/development/developing-responsive-designs-in-chrom/ After we released retina.js, we were surprised and proud to see a huge influx of traffic. It was being shared all over the place. One pattern I noticed was most sites that were writing about it had copy-and-pasted the intro text straight from the site. retina.js is an open source script ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/meta/i-would-have-written-you-a-shorter-letter-but-i-did-not-have-the-time/ Days before the iPad 3 shipped, Bruce, Taylor and I were talking about how incredible the new retina display was going to be. In a moment of terror it occurred to all of us how it — one device — was going to forever change web design as we know ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/open-source/retina-js/ I just returned from a whirlwind TEDxSummit event in Doha, Qatar where Andrew and I had a chance to meet over 700 amazing TEDx organizers from over 90 countries. Truthfully, what I've learned is still sinking in but the impact is certain and this year's event will be fantastic. On ... http://imulus.com/blog/george/opinion/tedxboulder-2012-open-call-for-team-members/ After recent success with Imulus projects hosted on cloud application provider Heroku, our programming team decided to check out a similar company in the cloud hosting arena, AppHarbor. AppHarbor is enticing for many reasons. First, it provides .NET cloud hosting, which at the moment Heroku does not. Second, and more importantly, ... http://imulus.com/blog/erik/software/appharbor-initial-impressions/ At Imulus we've been interactively trying Umbraco 5 off and on for the past 8 months or so. As of this last week we finally took the dive to do our first full-fledge project with version 5.01. Now, there's a lot of discussion to be had over whether or not Umbraco ... http://imulus.com/blog/bruce/development/umbraco-5-and-razor-building-a-navigation-macro/ From the Designer's perspective (Kat): Since Apple's excommunication of Adobe Flash on their iOS platform, the web has seen an interesting trend: Flash is out, Javascript is in. Okay, that may be a bit of an exaggeration. Flash has seen a downward trend even before Apple's cast-off. With its limitations in ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/software/what-i-love-about-hype-from-a-designer-and-a-developers-perspective/ Ever wish for a copy of what your homepage used to look like? I know I have. Many times I wished I remembered to take a screen capture of a few pages before the entire site was replaced. For years I relied on archive.org and the WayBackMachine. Those services however often ... http://imulus.com/blog/george/design/recovering-that-long-forgotten-page-design/ Lunch is an important daily ritual at Imulus. Almost every day a group steps out for a bite at one of Boulder's many dining establishments — and sometimes the entire office will go out together. We've learned that it's nearly impossible to get a group of 12 people to agree ... http://imulus.com/blog/casey/software/introducing-nomnom/