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I am continuing to (hopefully) improve the image upload support on [post] pages. Please leave me comments if you are finding any bugs. I'm particularly interested if anyone is using Internet Explorer.
Note that once you upload an image and insert it into the posting box you can double click the image and get a pop up (which I need to simplify and make look nicer) where you can change a bunch of the image attributes (notably the image size.) In FireFox you can click the image once and you should get image resize handles you can click and drag to resize the image.
Logged in users with posting permission can now select previously uploaded images from their image libraries (as well as upload new images) right from the [post]ing page.
Super interesting discussion about going with all SSDs in servers, ditching both spinning hard drives and hardware RAID cards. I hadn't thought we were there yet, but Chong Lee (cwl@apaqdigital on the forum linked to), who is making the case, is a giant supplier of custom servers (he built our server) and just incredibly knowledgable. His data shows that it's time on all counts: cost, performance, and reliability. At least for some use cases. I'm sold. Now if I could just afford a new server. I'd love to not have to worry about drives, and worse, the RAID card. Man, if that thing failed it would be a disaster.
I've been integrating blueimp's jQuery-File-Upload scripts into my software. It's a really nice package. But I had to spend all morning tracking down a weird inconsistency in iOS. Turns out that even with the file upload form set to auto upload through javascript (so no need for an actual submit button,) Mobile Safari seems to require that button be present in the form. Without it the file picker won't even be clickable. Weird. And it doesn't throw any errors to Web Inspector so this was pretty hard to find.
BrowserStack is another virtual machine driven browser based web site testing service. Looks like it might be the most polished of the bunch.
From the Twitter team: typeahead.js, a fast and fully-featured autocomplete library.
From the LinkedIn team: 5 techniques for smooth infinite scrolling in HTML5.
Nice collection of responsive design patterns.
Parsley looks like a nice javascript form validation library.
Seems like Safari under iOS strips out most EXIF data when uploading photos. I guess I can see why they do this but it is a real bummer for me.