Nicole Sullivan

Category: Server

  • Visual Semantics in HTML and CSS

    Each layer in the web stack has its own architecture. You wouldn’t expect the DB schema to be used to architect the PHP middleware, and yet people expect that of the HTML and CSS. HTML needs to be written with a sense of the meaning of the data or content, something I call code semantics.…

  • ParisWeb Performance Web Videos et slides disponible

    80% des problèmes de performance Web se situe au niveau des échanges avec le navigateur et sur le navigateur lui-même : échanges réseau, rendu dans le navigateur, organisation des composants dans une page etc. Nous aborderons les principales problématiques et les solutions à mettre en Å“uvre. Forts de l’expérience de l’équipe performance de Yahoo!, à…

  • Video, Yahoo!s latest performance breakthroughs, or — I’m famous!

    Well, not quite. 😉 But I am pleased with the results. Who would have thought that the shy girl who almost failed a public speaking course at university would turn out to really enjoy presenting. Turns out I only like speaking about geeky things, preferably to geeks. A limitation perhaps, but far less limiting than…

  • 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…