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
High Performance Kick Ass Web Apps
Published October 14th, 2009 Under Uncategorized | Leave a Comment
Got a slow web application? Dr. Stefanov is writing a prescription for you on how to put your application on a web diet using a wide array of techniques, tricks, and magic. Stoyan takes a deep dive into web technology and how to optimize it at levels that rarely get touched upon, even at tech conferences. His experience in pipelining, cacheing, image inlining, and smushing at Yahoo! Developer Network is shared with you to take advantage of every possible performance improvement ever known. He demonstrates how to use smush.it, minifiers, and other ninja techniques to make the web faster than ever before. This is a must see for any and every web developer.
Even Faster Websites
Published October 7th, 2009 Under General, Javascript | Leave a Comment
Steve Souders is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow. In this talk, he presents some of the best practices from his next book, including optimizing CSS selectors, flushing the document early, and discovering why 15% of users don’t get compressed responses.
Earning an “A” in YSlow
Published July 16th, 2009 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Nick Zadrozny takes us on a tour of basic website performance optimization, covering 13 optimizations you shouldn’t deploy your site without. He’ll also go over some sample implementations for a typical Rails app, including a demo of how to serve your public assets from Amazon’s new CloudFront CDN.
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