Fronteers 2009
I’m psyched to be speaking at Fronteers in November – and not just because it’s one of the best conference names ever. And not just because it’s in Amsterdam – although that is a huge plus. The main reason I’m psyched is because I missed last year’s conference and regretted it. The feedback I got was that the speakers were great and so were the attendees. PPK is active in his advocacy for frontend engineering, and (from what I heard) that was apparent in the level of knowledge and participation shown throughout the talks.
Last year’s speakers included Stuart Langridge, Christian Heilmann, and Pete LePage (check out the links to their talks on YDN). PPK has announced myself and Nate Koechley as speakers for 2009, and some other web gurus I know have said they’re speaking there as well. It’s going to be another great set of speakers and sessions. I’m so glad that I’ll be there to experience it, and I hope you can make it, too.
John Resig: Drop-in JavaScript Performance
I wrote a post on the Google Code Blog about John Resig’s tech talk “Drop-in JavaScript Performance.” The video and slides are now available.
In this talk, John starts off highlighting why performance will improve in the next generation of browsers, thanks to advances in JavaScript engines and new features such as process per tab and parallel script loading. He digs deeper into JavaScript performance, touching on shaping, tracing, just-in-time compilation, and the various benchmarks (SunSpider, Dromaeo, and V8 benchmark). John plugs my UA Profiler, with its tests for simultaneous connections, parallel script loading, and link prefetching. He wraps up with a collection of many other advanced features in the areas of communiction, DOM, styling, data, and measurements.