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How to build stunning custom iOS graphs on iPhone and iPad

A couple of weeks ago, we released a big update to our iOS server monitoring app app, adding graph support on both iPhone + iPad. It’s an update that we’ve [...]


A new Dashboard for Server Density

Today we unveil our new Server Density dashboard with a fluid layout, a re-written javascript engine and a new UI. Our main objectives for the new dashboard were to display [...]


Server Density Chrome Application

Get it here: Server Density Chrome Application. This is my third Random Week with Boxed Ice and it was a blast to get to spend the week in London, but [...]


Full screen server monitoring dashboard

Now you have even more of an excuse to get a big TV or 2nd monitor for your Server Density server monitoring full screen dashboard. Just click the icon in [...]


Server Density updates – dashboard, alert history and notifications

We have just pushed out an update to our server monitoring service, Server Density. A few weeks ago we spent a lot of time going through every page in the [...]


Design Decisions: Agent installation instructions

The agent for our server monitoring service, Server Density, is designed to be as easy to install as possible but it still requires a minute or two of work on [...]


The impending (ebook) war: functionality and experience, not price

Until the unveiling of Apple’s iPad, Amazon had an effective monopoly as a large ebook retailer with the Kindle tied to their online Store. This has allowed them to exert [...]


Exposing hidden features

I met Dave Stone at DrinkTank last night and talking about usability, he said something along the lines of “if you need to explain something to users in writing then [...]