Monthly Archives: February, 2012

Three service models

Different types of cloud computing are provided ‘as a service’ to consumers, and most of them fall under one or more of three categories: Software as a Service, Platform as a Service, and Infrastructure as a Service. It is...

Essential characteristics

The NIST draft definition lists five essential characteristics of cloud computing and goes on to explain what they are in technical terms (Mell and Grance, 2009). I have provided my own slightly simplified interpretations below, and when I refer...

Defining cloud computing

I have already opined in the introduction that cloud computing has led to a ‘marketing fog’, and this is no better illustrated than with the multitude of definitions for the term. I considered a number of well-known definitions of...

Three layers of computing

At a basic level when you use a personal computer you interact with three layers of computing. First, at the lowest layer, you have a physical piece of hardware with its processors, memory chips, disk drives, network cards and...

What is cloud computing

The interesting thing about cloud computing is that we’ve redefined cloud computing to include everything that we already do. I can’t think of anything that isn’t cloud computing with all of these announcements. The computer industry is the only...

Using Real Fonts

Typography is so important to user experience. The book you're reading right now has fonts that were carefully selected by people who understand how choosing the right fonts and the right spacing can make it much easier for people to read this...

Working with Shadows, Gradients, and Transformations

While rounded corners get a lot of attention, that's just the beginning of what we can do with CSS3. We can add drop shadows to elements to make them stand out from the rest of the content, we can use gradients to...

Rounding Rough Edges

On the Web, everything is a rectangle by default. Form fields, tables, and even sections of web pages all have a blocky, sharp-edged look, so many designers have turned to different techniques over the years to add rounded corners to these elements...

Embedding Video

AwesomeCo wants to showcase its new series of training videos on its website, and it wants the videos to be viewable on as many devices as possible, especially on the iPad. As a trial, we've been provided two videos in the "Photoshop...

Working with Audio

AwesomeCo is developing a site to showcase some royalty-free audio loops for use in screencasts, and it would like to see a demo page mocked up of a single loop collection. When we're done, we'll have a list of the audio loops,...
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