Category: Geek
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New tool: Easy image optimization with Smush it
I’m at Ajax Experience this week with my teammate, Stoyan Stefanov. This morning we did a demo of our new tool SmushIt.com. Smush it allows you to automate image optimization by using the best of open source algorithms to achieve the smallest, high performance images possible. Smush it comes in different flavors: You can upload…
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Optimisation des Images : Les 7 erreurs à éviter at ParisWeb
Je vais parler (en francais! eek!) avec Eric Daspet de la performance des images pour le web a ParisWeb. Les inscriptions pour Paris Web 2008 sont officiellement ouvertes. Jusqu’au 15 octobre au soir, vous bénéficierez de tarifs réduits. Le conference sera lieu a Paris le 13-15 Novembre. J’attend vous voir bientot alors. 😉 Voila le…
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So you wanna be a web dev?
The Web Standards Curriculum published by Opera is a great place to start. It will give you the basics of Front-end Engineering from the ground up. The second wave of articles was recently published including a background image and sprites how-to by yours truly. Time to board a plane, so I can’t tell you more…
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Vote for me at SXSW! – performance panel
Website performance is still very much in it’s infancy. Most performance experts come from a traditional engineering background and yet, as Steve Souders showed in his book, the front end is responsible for more than 80% of end user response time. I was excited when Ed Eliot asked me to be a part of a…
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iPhone, the morning after
My Treo stopped syncing in January and I immediately started missing all my meetings. I need the device to ring every few seconds to remind me to blink and breathe, so life without a properly synced agenda was awful — just ask my colleagues. Guppy brain. A Palm user for the past eight years, I…
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YUI 3 Sneak Peek
The YUI team released YUI3 for a sneak peek preview. The goals make me happy… especially goal 2. lighter (less K-weight on the wire and on the page for most uses) faster (fewer http requests, less code to write and compile, more efficient code) more consistent (common naming, event signatures, and widget APIs throughout the…
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I love glue.
Glue is a cool thing from Yahoo. Now I’d be the first to admit that Yahoo has a geek-cred-gap. Given that cred-gap, it is really nice to be able to point to something well done and say, hey, I use that. Doug thinks the tools and rules put out by my team are one of…
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Website Performance Bootcamps in Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore
I spoke to audiences in four countries and got a little sick from eating street food along the way. I just got back from a whirlwind 13 day performance tour of four countries. With only two days to present in each country I had to maximize impact as much as possible. I was supposed to…
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F2Es, Take the survey!
I believe this kind of survey will help us better understand our own industry. Though I do wish they has asked if people are focusing on performance as a strategic skill in their work. F2Es are absolutely vital to making fast websites.