JavaScript in Browser Performance
Published February 1st, 2010 Under General, Javascript | Leave a Comment
Web 2.0 is adding more and more content to our pages, especially features that are implemented in Ajax. But our web applications are evolving faster than the browsers that they run in. We don’t have to rely on or wait for the release of new browsers to make our web applications faster. In this session, Steve Souders discusses web performance best practices from his second book, Even Faster Web Sites. These time-saving techniques are used by the world’s most popular web sites to create a faster user experience, increase revenue, and reduce operating costs. Steve provides technical details about reducing the pain of JavaScript, as well as secrets for making your page load faster in emerging markets where network connectivity is a challenge.
RIA Problems You Never Expected: Too Many Screens
Published January 6th, 2010 Under Flex, General | Leave a Comment
Multiple screens in a rich internet application can exceed the abilities of the client machine. Kevin Hoyt shows how to achieve swift and seamless response time with creation queuing techniques.
Effective GWT: Developing a complex, high-performance app with Google Web Toolkit
Published December 31st, 2009 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
In this session we’ll show how you can get the most out of GWT in development, testing and deployment. It’s based on our two and half years of experience building Lombardi Blueprint, a SaaS application for collaborative business process documentation. We’ll cover how you can effectively integrate GWT into your development process and how to structure your code and application to take advantage of GWT’s unique features in order to provide the best possible user experience. Focus: Achieving high performance, sharing code between client and server, building and testing your application, multi-page application architecture, tips and tricks.
Measure in Milliseconds: Performance Tips for Google Web Toolkit
Published December 14th, 2009 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) allows developers to build highly optimized, fast AJAX applications. GWT allows developers to code in the Java programming language using their favorite IDE tools, then cross-compile that source into plain JavaScript to be served just like any other webpage script. We’ll take a look at some performance techniques you can use in GWT to build even faster web apps.
RIA Problems You Never Expected: Wasted Resources
Published December 7th, 2009 Under General | Leave a Comment
Kevin Hoyt launches a series about the challenges of rich internet applications. In this episode he explains how virtual lists improve application performance by reducing rendering time.
Additional resources
* Managing Rich Internet Applications
* Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
* 10 Tips for Flex Application Performance
* Ajax Performance Tuning and Best Practices