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Model-View-Websockets

February 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment

by Garann Means at HTML5 Texas Conference in Austin, TX

Many front-end developers are familiar with MVC, and almost all are familiar with event-driven architectures (even if they call them something else). How do those two philosophies work together? And, more importantly, how can websockets help future applications become more responsive, more consistent, and easier to develop? We’ll reexamine the Controller concept from MVC and figure out how to combine simple browser messaging and websockets to address our application needs and improve our user experiences.

Model-View-WebsocketsJavaScript

Did well for a while without patterns and frameworks, but once we realized its potential we added everything at once, adding complexity and functionality.

#singlepageappaproblems

Single Page Applications (SPAs) today are everywhere, as well as SPA behavior on static pages, requiring 3rd-party tools and systems of dependencies. It’s easy to set up, but difficult to maintain.

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Adaptive Images for Responsive Web Design

February 2, 2013 By Leave a Comment



by Christopher Schmitt at HTML5 Texas Conference, Austin, Texas (Deck)

“The open web doesn’t stop at our desktop. Smart phones and tablets not only contain more computing power and better browsers than the computers that started the Internet economy, they have better displays.In this session presented by Christopher Schmitt, we will work through tips and tricks to develop future friendly images in our sites and apps.”

Adaptive Images in Responsive Web Design

Think about the iPad, which presents so many design challenges. It can be wi-fi only or 3G, so bandwidth issues can be present. It has retina, so there can be display issues. When you design for web, you want to have great-looking images, but how do we get higher resolution images to those devices.

Why don’t we ask the browser? http://www.usearagentstring.com/ Available since the first browser Mozilla/1.0 (Win3.1), but browser put tons of stuff in the user agent string and can be spoofed. Instead of asking the browser, we do feature testing.

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What Makes a Company’s Culture Great?

April 21, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Lunch with Zappos executives

Lately, at work, within our department we’ve been discussing company culture. A while back, we read Delivering Happiness, the book by Tony Hsieh about the history of the company and culture of Zappos. A few months ago, a Googler accidentally posted an internal memo on Google+ that showed the world a lot about Google culture, especially with the fact that it was allowed to be left public and did not receive any negative repercussions (as far as we know). We’ve also been mulling over the Netflix culture presentation over the last few weeks. I love what I do and where I work, especially the team I work with and the department I work in. I’m always encouraged with a discussion about how we can improve workplace culture, so I was very interested to dive into a study of workplace culture and how the corporate presentation of culture and actual practice line up.

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Be Real and Be Nice in Social Media

March 7, 2012 By 1 Comment

The Jeter FamilyIt’s amazing how some days just have a theme. Today in my daily ritual of browsing my social spaces, the theme of being real, being helpful and being polite when participating in Facebook, Twitter, Google+, etc. kept coming up over and over again.

First, I read a great article by Jonathan Morrow on Copyblogger, (which creates the Genesis Framework that I use on my blog) called “21 Warning Signs You’re Becoming a Social Media Snob” that gives great insight and a cool self-evaluation tool to see if you have become a “Social Media Snob”. I won’t divulge my score, but I think I’m doing okay, but it’s a good reminder that I can be doing better. My favorite part of the article is the solution, which is to show empathy and caring in your social interactions online.

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Google Play – Android’s New Playground

March 7, 2012 By Leave a Comment

Google Play - The New Android MarketI’m sure you’ve already heard, but the Android Market has been rebranded as Google Play. Google Play is the reincarnation of the Android Market, which has been growing by leaps and bounds over the last few months, as first music and then books and movies have been added. My only hesitation when the Market became Google Play on my phone was having to agree to the privacy policy once again, which, of course, is the new comprehensive Google privacy policy covering all properties and all accounts. If you think about it, shouldn’t it be called the Google sharing policy instead of privacy policy, since you are basically giving Google permission to share your information across every relationship that you have with them?

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Non-Buyer’s Remorse – The Verizon Wireless Leap Day Sale

March 2, 2012 By 1 Comment
Motorola Droid 4My birthday is coming up very soon and I’ve been wanting to upgrade my Motorola Droid (original) for a while. Finally on Wednesday, I decided to check out the Droid 4 because I had heard both really good and really bad things about it and decided that I needed to see it for myself. As I went through the Verizon Wireless site and was pleasantly surprised to see that the Droid 4 was $100 off and the Droid Bionic was free! Because I had heard that the screen was not up to par on the Droid 4, I decided that I needed to go to the store and check it out myself.

I went to the store and checked out the phones. They had a Droid Bionic, Droid Razr Maxx and a Droid 4 right next to each other, which was great, because those are the three phones that I wanted to compare. I looked at the phones and while they were all impressive, I REALLY like the Droid 4. Some people may not like a bulky phone or see the need for a hardware keyboard, but I immediately pulled out the keyboard to try it out. It is amazing! The keyboard is great. The buttons are larger and have a better shape than the keys on my current Droid and there is even a row of numbers at the top so you don’t have to get all ALT happy when you’re typing in an address or phone number. I didn’t see any of the ghosting issues that have been talked about in reviews. I was actually impressed with the display. I like the way it looks.

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Photobooks 40% Off

December 14, 2011 By Leave a Comment


My wife loves to do digital scrapbooking and creates wonderful, lasting memories for our family using a variety of online services to publish scrapbooks and photo albums. Through my various affiliate programs I have found the following great promotions for photobooks, which make great Christmas presents, by the way!

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A Great Man

November 7, 2011 By 1 Comment

My uncle died today. While it wasn’t a shock, it was sudden because it wasn’t very long ago that he was diagnosed with cancer. As I look back, I once again realize what a great man he was. My uncle, Curtis Rydholm, Jr., was a humble, loving man with a great sense of humor that was a great example as a husband and father.
My youngest son, Lucas, constantly reminds me of him, not ony because he looks like Uncle Curtis did as a child, but also because he loves cars, motorcycles, and basically anything with wheels and an engine. My uncle was a mechanic who worked hard for his family. He knew everything there is to know about cars. The model cars and trucks that he would give me for Christmas each year helped build my appreciation for all things mechanical, even though I tend to be mechanically-challenged.
One of my favorite memories is when we went on a family vacation with our two young children and had the privilege of staying with my uncle and his family for a couple of days. During that time we were able to witness first-hand a family that cared about each other, respected each other and showed love to each other. I only hope that I can be as good a husband and father as my Uncle Curtis and if my kids grow up to be as thoughtful and caring as my cousins, then I think my life will be a success.
We’ll miss you Uncle Curtis. I hope you know how much I loved and respected you.

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What?

This is where I tell you what I do. I am a User Interface/Front-End Development Manager/Developer. I currently work in the Consumer Marketing department at SuperMedia, LLC and I love what I’m doing here. I get to work on superpages.com and other high visibility high traffic sites and my job is to make them a better experience for visitors and to help consumers find the right business for their needs. I am currently NOT looking for another job.

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Who?

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The Jeter Family

I’m Jonathan Jeter. I’m just a lucky guy with a great family and a job I love. I’ve been designing and developing web sites since 1997 and love it.

This is my little space on the Web where I can share my thoughts on stuff I like. I hope it is useful to you or at least mildly entertaining.

Here is a little bit about me, in case you’re interested.  I grew up in Madrid, Spain, for the most part and in Waxahachie, Texas. The two are about as different as two cities can be. Madrid is a bustling metropolitan city in Southern Europe and Waxahachie is a rural city/town just outside of the Dallas / Fort Worth Metroplex. I have also lived in Fort Worth, which is a good compromise between the two. Growing up in Spain allowed me to experience a variety of cultures and learn that different cultures and subcultures behave in certain ways that may seem strange to others, but if you try to understand where they’re coming from, you can usually come away with a better perspective on life and human nature. It has served me well as I have later in life been able to experience the same type of perspective when dealing with the many subcultures of the rural South and metropolitan Texas, as well as cultural perspectives in small businesses and large corporations.

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