Show HN: My Responsive Design Development Setup

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This setup looks very cool! I know quite a few folks that are into emulators for looking at mobile on a desktop, but I think there's something special when you look at your design on an actual mobile device. I realize of course that this is a pain (I now a small collection of devices) but I think it's the way to go.

Yeah - I've been bitten by too many "discrepancies" between emulators and the real thing. Also with device testing, a big part of it for me is how the device is held. Are there awkward target areas for touch devices - is the type set incorrectly for how far away I'm going to hold it? How quickly do resources load? Answering questions like that is a big part of my process when I'm analyzing devices.

Slightly off topic question, where did you get that wallpaper? It's gorgeous.

I took the photo in the background - it can be found here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/heyitsadam/8119390724/in/photos...

The icons I overlay on top of the photo are from a collection called Geomicons Squared:

http://geomicons.com

Hope that helps.

Looks like a smart, efficient way to monitor responsive design.

Thanks! Just checked out your learning to program site. Dig it, looking forward to more posts. Cheers.

Thanks! I'm really enjoying the process of learning to program (Ruby) and documenting it.

I'd like to share my articles with the HN crowd, but not sure how they'd respond to noob developer concepts.

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