I think it’s safe to say that we are smack-dab in the middle of a bloated Internet. Web sites are increasing in size and with that comes the extra waiting time for the page to load it’s content, graphics, CSS, JavaScript, Flash movies, etc., etc. It leads me to believe that designing a fast and [...]

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This morning I checked out a screencast by Nate Koechley called Professional Frontend Engineering, provided by YUI Theater. It’s quite lengthy (1:30), but well worth your time. Although nothing ground breaking or exciting is covered, I found it to be a good kick in the pants. Nate goes over the main technologies that we as [...]

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• Tags: JSLint, Nate Koechley, sprite, YUI, YUI Theater

Watched an interesting screencast yesterday on AJAX Performance, by Doug Crockford. This was one of a series of videos that he has produced on the subject and from what I’ve seen so far, I plan on watching the rest of them. 
Doug is a fantastic presenter; moving through the subject matter at a good pace – [...]

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• Tags: AJAX, Doug Crockford, JSLint, performance

This afternoon I came across a good set of screencasts that were captured from a recent Web Developer’s conference in September of last year.
The first one I took a look at was one by John Resig, creator of jQuery. Although he does not have very good presentational skills (to be honest, his voice almost drove [...]

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• Tags: chaining, Deep Profile, John Resig, jQuery, QUnit