Nicole Sullivan

Category: General

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Cake for breakfast

    And why not? I spent years eating french pastry, but I still love cake. This comic rocks, I finally found it again. And at the same time discovered that the artist drew from personal experience.

  • 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…

  • 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.

  • Immigrant meta-culture

    Anyone that has lived abroad for more than a few years, understands fundamentally not fitting. When I moved to Paris, I expected it to be a culture shock, to really change my ideas. It’s natural, I had to learn the language, and more than that, figure out how to make my way in a culture…