Measuring Amazon AWS Uptime
Yesterday, for the second time in two years Techblog was offline most of the day due to an Amazon AWS service outage. That’s effectively, for business purposes, 364/365 = 99.726% uptime. 99.726 percent uptime isn’t a statistic we hear about (returns zero results on Google) because cloud hosting providers shine up the numbers the same way […]
AMD – CommonsJS Modules for the Browser
The Asynchronous Module Definition API (AMD) brings modular JavaScript to the browser similar to the CommonsJS Modules API. The difference with CommonsJS modules is that AMD enables modules to be loaded asynchronously on demand, reducing browser footprint. As with CommonsJS modules, AMD modules do not add variables to the global namespace, helping to avoid clashes between […]
An Insider’s Account of Nerdy Derby at MakerFaire 2012
At the 2012 World Maker Faire at the New York Hall of Science in Queens, makers of all walks once again converged to share their passion, see interesting and/or odd projects and to participate in this burgeoning movement. One of the exhibits which captured all of these aspects was the Nerdy Derby. Nerdy Derby is […]
Commons JS – Improving Client-Side JS by Improving Server-Side JS
Although CommonsJS is a set of standard APIs targeted at server-side JavaScript, it is adding value to client-side JavaScript by addressing low-level weaknesses in the language that have not yet been included in the ECMAScript standard. For example, JavaScript has no mechanism for defining modules, which has led to library developers exposing APIs through variables […]
The XOXO Festival
This past weekend, I spent four days in Portland, OR at the XOXO Festival. Billed as “an arts and technology festival celebrating disruptive creativity,” it brought together 400 minds in one space to share and discuss our work. The conference talks and themes have been thoroughly and thoughtfully covered by Anil Dash, the NYTimes, BoingBoing […]
It’s Time We Got Excited for the Self Driving Car
It’s hard to think of an imminent technology that will have more of an effect on our lives than the self driving car. The world we live in is built around the idea that we drive somewhere, leave the car in a parking spot, do something, then get in the same car and drive home. We take […]
Progress for Prosthetic Knees
The elevator door opens and a squat Latino man almost kicks my head off. Odd as it may sound, this is a pleasant greeting at the office where I have come to obtain a new prosthetic leg. Martin is a single leg below-the-knee amputee with a black belt in Karate, and his feisty roundhouse kick […]
Introducing This Is Responsive
In the fast-paced world of responsive web design, one of the most frequent questions that we at R/GA get asked is “Where do I go to learn about this stuff?”. We’ve been tracking this information internally for a while now, and this month we made this resource publicly available for everyone at This Is Responsive, […]
The Turing Test of Feature Assessment
If the results of an advanced system are indistinguishable from fake results, is it worth investing in the system in the first place? It’s my observation the brightest marketing minds struggle with this question every day. From cross-selling strategies to data-visualization, inspired creative and technical teams waste precious resources devising complex systems that perform no […]
R/GA wins Best Mobile App at Facebook WorldHack Austin
Yesterday, two of us from R/GA attended the Facebook World Hack in Austin, a day long event where developers come together to spend an entire day hacking and building projects using the latest Facebook technology. Facebook is doing these hacks in 12 cities around the world, and Austin is the only hack happening in the […]
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