http://www.klauskomenda.com Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 04 Jun 2008 08:53:56 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The young, and maybe immature industry that we still are in the business of web development, still has not figured out what we should call that geeky guy in the corner, in his casual outfit, focussed on the screen of his Mac and talking about strange things like "Web Standards", ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/06/03/where-does-the-frontend-end/ When working in an environment where the systems you work on require ssh access, it can get quite tedious after a while if you have to type in the whole servername over and over again into your terminal window. Thankfully, there is a config file that makes that a bit ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/05/27/make-connecting-using-ssh-easier-with-sshconfig/ Based on a project done by my colleague at Yahoo!, Simon Jobling, who created World Cup KickOff two years ago, I joined him as a developer to create a follow-up project for the upcoming Euro 2008 football championship in Austria (my home country) and Switzerland. Being quite a football fan ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/05/22/euro-kickoff/ Inspired by my friend Annie's motivation, endurance and discipline and by Derek's Ironman torture, I registered for the Half Marathon during the Vienna City Marathon event which took place last Sunday, April 27. I had registered for it back in March, after I had done longer runs than usual (including ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/04/29/running-the-half-marathon-in-vienna/ Even though there is some noise currently in the media about Yahoo! and some other company, Y! (as we like to refer to it, because we are cool and hip — or lazy) was and is a great place to work for a Web Developer. And we are hiring. Specifically ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/04/16/yahoo-is-hiring-junior-web-developers/ When I was doing the redesign of my site (actually when I was already finished), I realized that the big header image I was using consumes a lot of bandwidth when downloaded by the user. Subsequently, it added to the page loading time and made the site much heavier than ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/04/16/measuring-bandwidth-with-javascript/ I have worked with designers in the past who come from a very print-centric background. When it comes to print, designers can pick from a sheer endless variety of fonts. But when you want to pick a font for your Web site design, well, the collection gets considerably small. But ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/font-families-a-web-developer-can-trust/ Every Web Developer knows about them and everyone amongst them who cares about performance fears them. Unused zombie-like CSS selectors that were initially added to your CSS files (probably at an early stage of the project) with good intentions but became useless and redundant at some point, most likely because ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/18/using-dust-me-selectors-plugin-to-find-unused-css-selectors/ With mobile devices becoming more and more popular each year, it is about time for the state-of-the-art Web Developer to not only test the sites he is building on a desktop/laptop computer, but also on mobile phones and PDAs. But there are so many out there! Do you need to ... http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/17/testing-on-mobile-devices-using-emulators/ Have you ever tried to take a guitar with you on an airplane? When going to Vienna yesterday, I was thinking about it, but finally decided not to due to the fact that the risk of it ending up with the other luggage was too high. http://www.klauskomenda.com/archives/2008/03/06/taking-a-guitar-on-an-airplane/