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Rocket-powered websites
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Websites get from where they live to your computer via a network of wires. They’re transferred using a technology called HTTP, which has been stuck at version 1.1 for a little more than sixteen years. All well and good: if it’s not broken, then why fix it? The reason to fix it is that since
My First App
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Experiences building my first ever phone app, using Cordova and jQuery to deliver content from a WordPress installation.
The luck and beauty of life
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We are ever grateful for the opportunity to live in such a beautiful country. For the luck which means that we are of sufficient means to decide, based on a weather forecast, to drive for fifteen minutes and ascend in a rattling funicular cabin to a place which feels like the top of the world. All to
Cable cars, funiculars and cog railways
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Walking in the mountains is a great pastime, even if the weather isn’t great. But sometimes, getting to a mountain peak is a huge effort: even lesser summits than the four-thousand-metre monsters in canton Wallis are difficult to reach on foot. Although Switzerland is famous for its cable cars, funiculars and mountain railways, Switzerland Tourism
Don’t do speculative work for web clients
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Would you invest your time, experience and effort to do your job when there was a potential that your client or boss wouldn’t pay you for it?
The Selfie Stick
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One of my favourites from the comparatively new Flickr group Photos of Photographers with a Selfie Stick, by Tobias Eisenschmidt.
Kodachrome
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When I think backOn all the crap I learned in high schoolIt’s a wonderI can think at allAnd though my lack of educationHasn’t hurt me noneI can read the writing on the wall KodachromeThey give us those nice bright colorsThey give us the greens of summersMakes you think all the world’s a sunny dayI got
Ten years at Flickr
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A brief history of ten years using the online photo-sharing service Flickr.
Oeschinensee, Switzerland
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One of the more spectacular mountain lakes in the Bernese Oberland of Switzerland is at Oeschinensee, in a hanging valley easily reached by cable car from the town of Kandersteg. If you’re feeling lazy, then the walk to the lakeside restaurant is a fairly easy one. If you’re more adventurous, then there are a network of paths leading
Patience
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After a long time with a much reduced amount of interest for photography, I am finally getting back to wanting to capture images again. The unenforced time out has done me good. I am reminded once more of the pleasure of waiting for the moment to be right; when the light and the surroundings all come
Grindelwald First, Switzerland
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The mountain restaurant and top cable car station at First, above Grindelwald, affords amazing views down to the valley and to the huge wall of rock opposite: including the famous Eiger North Wall.
Toni-Areal, Zurich
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I am rarely in Zurich and I prefer the countryside and mountains to cities these days. But I like to be in the midst of industrial architecture sometimes, and one of my favourite sites is the former milk processing plant in the industrial area of Pfingstweid. Mainly because of the huge corkscrew ramp leading up to
WordCamp Switzerland 2015
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Lessons learned and presentations seen at this year’s WordPress conference in Zurich.
They didn’t think that the kid had a bomb
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They didn’t think that the kid had a bomb. They didn’t evacuate the school, like you do when there’s a bomb. They didn’t call the bomb squad, like you do when there’s a bomb. They didn’t get as far away from him as possible, like you do when there’s a bomb. They put him and
Silver and light
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It’s about doing what you love. If you’d been searching your whole life for something you love, and you found it, what would you be willing to sacrifice?
The four seasons of St. Niklaus
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Beautiful time lapse sequences from canton Wallis (Valais) by filmmaker Christian Mülhauser.
SEO für WordPress
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Zusammenfassung der Themen bezüglich SEO, die wir gestern an ein WordPress-Meetup in Bern besprochen haben.
Aerial sequence of Brighton’s West Pier
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Filmed by Sam Moore of Visual Air, these are touching sequences of a structure which can’t be much longer for this world.
