Nicole Sullivan

Category: Geek

  • Technical Women Speakers on geekspeakr.com

    Ha! Take that Eric. I know most of you want ladies at conferences. Most of you are delighted when we show up. No more excuses conference organizers! There are loads of geeky women speakers, who would be delighted to share their technical expertise with your audience.

  • Yahoo!’s Latest Performance Breakthroughs

    The Exceptional Performance team at Yahoo! added 20 new performance rules and refined some of the original rules. I’m really excited about this; this performance goodness is just what developers need to accelerate the user experience even further. Flush the buffer early Use GET for AJAX requests Post-load components Preload components Reduce the number of…

  • Candidates graded on technical savvy, site performance

    Perhaps you have always wondered, what is Hillary Clintons YSlow score? Who is the master of image optimization, and who has so much image-bloat that it weighed more than Mike Huckabees entire page? Check out the article I wrote on YDN. Happy voting.

  • High Performance Ajax Applications

    Julien Lecomte presented his research into High Performance Ajax Applications. If you prefer there is also a video on YDN.

  • CSS 3 and where we shouldn’t be

    The emergence of CSS Frameworks doesn’t prove the necessity of a major overhaul of the CSS Spec. Rather it is indicative of the maturity of the medium. Java programmers don’t rewrite the math class every time they code a new application. If you are reinventing the wheel each time you write CSS, you’re doing it…

  • Semantics for Debutants

    Steve wrote an article about semantics. He does a good job of explaining his process. We need to teach newbies to take a slightly broader view. Imagine, for example, an action list, which allows you to execute a certain number of actions relative to the context in which it is found. Think; “print”, “save”, “email”,…

  • Yahoo! Developer Day Conference

    It is hard to remember not to make any mention of pants, even if I know what it means in British English. Beyond telling Murray Rowen that I liked his underwear in front of a crowd of people, I recently went to London to speak at the Front-end Summit being held there. I gave two…

  • Stubbornella joins the exceptional performance team at Yahoo!

    Today was my first day at Yahoo. I spent most of the day in orientation but I am already impressed with the culture. People seem genuinely happy and able to make working hard a part of living well. And damn they’re smart! Fabulous well-rounded geeks. I know, I know, it sounds like I’ve been drinking…

  • Améliore la vitesse de vos sites web avec le YSlow extension pour Firefox.

    Yahoo a sorti l’extension Firebug, YSlow, qui teste la vitesse des téléchargements et qui donne des recommandations basé sur les 14 Règles primordial pour des sites rapide.

  • Improve download speed with YSlow Firefox extension

    Yahoo has released the much awaited (by me at least!) YSlow firebug extension which tests download speed and gives recommendations based on the famous 14 rules for fast web pages.