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I've been mentoring a graduate who applied to over 400 roles and got very little feedback, which pushed me to look more closely at what's happening at the entry level.

It seems like a combination of factors. Fewer junior roles, more experienced engineers in the market and teams getting more productive, which reduces the need for entry level hiring.

The part I find more interesting is the longer term effect. If fewer people can get into the industry now, the pipeline that produces senior engineers over time gets thinner.

Curious whether others are seeing similar patterns.

The web is getting bigger, there is no denying that. People developing responsive sites irresponsibly, adding large images, videos and JavaScript libraries and frameworks.

What I don't understand is why search engines don't punish those individuals with larger pages rather than move everyone to something new? Is this taking us back to the mobile site days?

I love the concept of getting core content to the user fast but what is stopping someone adding a 2MB amp-img to their page and then we are right back where we were before?

I think that's a fair assessment. If people can grasp creating small independent deliverables for their projects (of any size) then things become a lot easier to estimate. Monitor velocity and pull less into future sprints if you're still getting it wrong.

If there is a piece of functionality that brings unfamiliarity to the delivery team then create a spike ticket to investigate (though use them sparingly).

If you break things down small enough, really understand your velocity and have a transparent relationship with your product owner then there should be no need for any stress from anyone.

If you're a designer looking for work, befriend a handful of good quality developers and likewise - if you're a developer, make friends with the odd designer or two. You will find very quickly that if they have client work, need your expertise and you're their go to person then you won't be short of work.

Angular and Backbone applications aside, doesn’t this just boil down to bad development and lack of understanding?

I’m a firm believer that the web should be usable with JavaScript disabled, JavaScript is there to add a layer of interactivity to your web page, not core function. All those people that keep coming up to me quoting ‘but everyone has JavaScript enabled’ miss the point - the web needs to be accessible and JavaScript isn't the answer.

Unfortunately I would disagree with this. Break points shouldn't be device specific. They should be as the name suggests, where the design breaks.

Not strictly true - https://secure.runescape.com/m=weblogin/loginform.ws?mod=www

This was so frustrating, to add the item to your cart, to then be thrown constant errors and being unable to proceed.

Of all the people, you would have expected Google to be able to handle the traffic.

I stand corrected, but for anyone wanting a smaller phone the Mini might be the phone for them. I'm all for 'bigger is better' and will be getting the Nexus 4 when it comes out - at that list price, you can't really go wrong.

The 4" Galaxy S3 Mini might be the phone for you. With the smaller size and packing the same punch as the main S3, it's a clever move by Samsung to cater for individuals such as yourself, at the other end of the market.

There is also this snazzy site to get the full zoomed out version: http://xkcd-map.rent-a-geek.de/

It's interesting and slightly scary the CDN issue. Several months ago when there was an issue with Google's CDN, an awful lot of websites fell over as they never had a local backup in place.

Hopefully as jQuery usage grows people come to understand the need for fallbacks.

This is a fantastic site and I used to use it a lot, the problem I find though is creating the initial sprite to use.

I found the following site a lot easier if you just export all the individual icons in bulk, it then auto generates the sprite and the positions needed for your CSS:

http://instantsprite.com/

I love how everyone screams about the 'open' web and yet these conference tickets are priced so highly.

I think conferences are a fantastic idea.. you meet like-minded individuals and hear from really passionate presenters but the prices are crazy and thus I have only ever been to 1.

I understand how there are certain costs to be factored in like venue and speakers costs but come on, there must be something that can be done so developers from all backgrounds can take part in such events.

Dribbble.com is fantastic, clicking on the user to find their personal website makes it approachable.

There is also Forrst.com, though the quality has been slipping over the past year but they have a directory of designers.

Don't forget builditwith.me who make it incredibly easy for you to search for designers specifically.

If it's a startup and the budget is small then finding a like minded individual is your best bet, who is willing to help out or potentially swap services, rather than approaching a freelance designer directly.

Is it just me or does that map functionality throw a wobbly in Chrome on Mac?

By using a magic mouse and a single swipe backwards/forwards - which is to zoom in/out respectively (similar to a mouse wheel), causes the page to freeze and for Chrome to kill it due to it being unresponsive.

This functionality works fine on the generic MapBox demos.

It's a shame because custom maps are a good idea, especially when you have so much flexibility over the styling, I just like using gestures to make zooming that little bit easier.

Incredibly poor list, can't believe this story has even been up-voted. The year of 2011 would have made just a little bit more sense.

The photographer has gone about this the wrong way - the cost is actually his experience and time.

It's like the 'Picasso Principle' where a woman approached Picasso for a sketch, he did something in 5 minutes and quoted her $10,000.

She said 'it only took you 5 minutes' and his response was 'no, it took me a lifetime'.

Full read here: http://bit.ly/A8ABL4

You think they would have made more of an effort with the catalogue on offer before launching..

I can appreciate that UK will have different licensing laws in place than the US, but what's on offer now is a real turn off and a disappointment.

It's absolute nonsense to say that 'HTML5' dominates Flash and many developers switched from Flash to HTML5.

It's more of a case that developers have become more accessibility and SEO savvy and now render things like carousels, galleries and news feeds through JavaScript and libraries like jQuery, which is nothing to do with HTML5.

HTML5 elements such as Canvas, Video and Audio will have minimal impact towards the direct switch from Flash, until developers fully understand their potential.

The following line from the email is a little but more worrying:

"We would like to advise you not to provide any credit card information to BACKIFY.COM. If you have provided credit card information to BACKIFY.COM then we would suggest contacting your card provider and informing them that your card may be used fraudulently."

So Backify are asking you to join a payment plan with that huge green button and LiveDrive are saying not to give your details to them.

Mixed messages are never good.

This has had a big impact on jQuery.com, luckily local copies of jQuery's files are in place on my sites so the impact has been minimal, however I can only think some individuals might not be so lucky.

Searching for mail or finding 'labelled' archived content on the default mail client was a real pain and this app answers those questions but as previously mentioned..

No multiple accounts? I have several Gmail accounts that I need to manage on the fly, and it is indeed quite 'laggy' when you have images or heavy content in the email body (which it doesn't scale down!)

All in all, it's a step in the right direction and about time this app came to market - let's just hope they resolve the issues and tweak the overall user experience.

Maybe a simple vote would be more beneficial?

Trying to digest all of the comments is hard work when you are looking for a definitive answer :)

My vote goes to 123-reg though, great interface offers a nice user experience but if things go wrong, their support is awful!

For EU customers, the list has one change: http://blog.eu.playstation.com/2011/05/16/details-of-the-wel...

Only last week I had a bug reported by a client that selects within Safari in Windows XP Classic mode only did not have drop down arrows..

It took me rather a long time to work out this was a bug within Safari itself, but just shows how different operating systems can make as much of an impact as that of different browsers.

So by the end of the year us web developers will have to support IE 6, 7, 8, 9 and now 10 on 3 different operating systems..

Maybe it's time for a change in profession.

This could potentially have a bad impact on the usage of Firefox. A heck of a lot of developers use it specifically for its addons like Firebug..

Will more people now leave Firefox on the bench and pick other inspectors like Google Chromes?

Maybe Mozilla should have thought about the impact that such an article could potentially have before releasing it to the big bad world..

Will this be free to use? It kind of reminds me of Geckoboard but their prices are rather expensive.