Notes and news, insights and inspiration from the autonomous collective mind of GS.

You know how different browsers display Web pages differently? From a development standpoint, it takes some massaging and understanding the shortfalls of various browsers to get a page to display the way you would like. When it comes to HTML email, getting your message to display as you would like is a bit more complicated. Web browsers (IE, Firefox, Safari, and Chrome) all use the code you write to display a page verbatim. Email clients, on the other hand (Outlook, Hotmail, Apple Mail, Yahoo Mail, Gmail, etc.), insert, update, and neglect code that the developer writes.

My very first blog post, I suppose it’s appropriate that it marks a significant point in my career. For the past six months or so I’ve had the pleasure of working on a project that has been truly fulfilling. I’m pretty passionate about my projects in general. I consider myself a “dedicated” project manager – but this, this project was different. I felt like I was doing something for the greater good. And I know that my fellow GS team members felt the same way.

I may sound like a “Get off my lawn!” old-timer, but my first Web access was through dial-up phone connection. Ah, my loyal USRobotics 9600-baud MODEM.

T’was a piece of crap.

For those of you not watching Apple’s product announcements like a hawk, just recently they unveiled the new iPad. One of the big, new features is the Retina Display. For iPhone folks, this is nothing new. We’ve had Retina Displays in our phones for a couple of years now.

Despite its “Don’t be evil” slogan, many people are starting to believe Google is just that. They believe Google to be the ultimate big brother and believe it to be using our private data for its own gain. So would you trust your corporate email with Google? 

We’re in the discovery stages of switching email platforms. Being a Mac- and Linux-based shop, Microsoft Exchange is ruled out. This leaves Google Apps and Zimbra as the two big players we’re considering. Comparing the two, there’s a lot of noise about security and privacy issues with Google. 

Today, major parts of the Internet went dark. Intentionally. This was done as a show of protest against proposed legislation that would threaten to break the Internet as we know it. What was being protested? Two pieces of legislation: SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, and

Scalable Vector Graphic (SVG) files are nothing new; they’ve been around for years. Despite this, we still haven’t seen them used as broadly as they could be. Given that the goal today is to build increasingly responsive and adaptive sites that look great not only on high-res desktop displays but also in the palm of your hand on mobile devices, bypassing SVG is a huge oversight. SVG files shine in this area as they’re completely resolution independent and (typically) have a smaller file size than their bitmapped brethren.

he’s featured on Engadget for a little something he dreamed up and built in his spare time. Our very own GS funnyman Kirill Edelman has got some wicked skillz when it comes to developing applications. Two years ago our company identified development of mobile service offerings as an area of focus for. Kirill took it upon himself to shift from Flash Actionscript developer to iOS App developer.

How many times have your heard that? You ask a developer to make a change to your website, they tell you it’s done, you go to check it out, and it appears nothing has been done. They speak the phrase they’ve probably said so many times in their life, “It must be cached. Just force refresh.”