Tag: Performance
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Twitter polls for developer sentiment
Yesterday, I wrote about how I reason about developer needs and the kinds of data I take into account. Unsurprisingly, many of you wondered what kind of twitter polls I was talking about. Between 100 and 2000 developers answered most of these questions. BIG CAVEAT: twitter polls have issues like no demographics info, audience bias,…
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Reflows & Repaints: CSS Performance making your JavaScript slow?
I’ve been tweeting and posting to delicious about reflows and repaints, and it seemed time for a blog post. Opera lists repaint and reflow as one of the three main contributors to sluggish JavaScript, so it definitely seems worth a look. Reflows are very expensive in terms of performance, and is one of the main…
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Object Oriented CSS video on YDN
Yahoo! Developer Network has released a video of my Object Oriented CSS talk at Web Directions North just in time for Ada Lovelace day. I’ve also been included in a feature on Women in Technology. I’m absolutely flattered to be included among these fantastic technical women. Wow. Object Oriented CSS: for high performance websites and…
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Design Fast Websites – Don’t blame the rounded corners! on YUI Theater
I visited Yahoo! last week to record a talk I had given at the Front End Summit in October. If you are a designer or an F2E it is essential that you understand the ways in which design choices impact overall site performance. This talk establishes guidelines for High Performance Design including 9 Best Practices.…
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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.
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High Performance Ajax Applications
Julien Lecomte presented his research into High Performance Ajax Applications. If you prefer there is also a video on YDN.