http://www.stevesouders.com/blog Essential knowledge for making your web pages faster. Tue, 22 Jul 2008 06:44:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'll be up at OSCON in Portland this week. I'm speaking Thursday 2:35pm on Even Faster Web Sites, the next set of performance best practices I'm working on. I'm signing books Thursday 12:20pm at the Powells table, and I'll be in the Google booth Thursday 4pm. At the Google booth ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/07/18/see-you-at-oscon/ Eric Miraglia wrote a post yesterday called Combo Handler Service Available for Yahoo-hosted JS. One of the advantages of YUI over other JavaScript frameworks is its à la carte capabilities. Developers can choose just the parts they want, rather than being saddled with the whole kit and caboodle. It's great ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/07/17/yuis-combo-handler-cdn-service/ As a father of three girls I watch for indicators of the level to which women are represented in the tech community. I decided to write a blog post about this while sitting at the ACM Awards Banquet a week ago. My experience coming from tech companies, including Yahoo! and ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/07/12/women-are-geeks-too/ This week I co-chaired Velocity, the web performance and operations conference from O'Reilly. It was great! Jesse and I told the story about how the conference came about. When we proposed the conference we believed there was a community of performance and operations engineers that needed a forum to share ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/06/26/velocity-wrap-up/ A few product launches are being announced at Velocity. I was able to get an early look at KITE 2.0 from Keynote. I've worked with Keynote for years. They have a strong platform of services for measuring web site availability and performance. KITE, Keynote's Internet Testing Environment, is the customer ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/06/21/velocity-product-launch-kite-20/ I recently hosted Andy Hopper (University of Cambridge) at Google to deliver his talk on Computing for the Future of the Planet (YouTube video). He covered a variety of areas that ranged from practical deployment issues that should be addressed today to futuristic concepts. The beginning of the talk, the ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/30/andy-hopper-computing-for-the-future-of-the-planet/ Today Dion Almaer announced the Google AJAX Libraries API. This is a great resource for developers using any of the popular JavaScript frameworks including Prototype, Script.aculo.us, jQuery, Dojo, and MooTools. Rather than downloading it to your own server and hosting it from there, you can request your preferred JavaScript library ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/27/google-ajax-libraries-api/ [This post is based on a chapter from my next book, a follow-up to High Performance Web Sites containing more best practices for faster web sites.] The growing adoption of Ajax and DHTML means today's web pages have more JavaScript than ever before. The average top ten U.S. web site[1] ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/05/14/split-the-initial-payload/ In my first book, High Performance Web Sites, I presented 14 rules for making web pages faster. I've got some good news and some bad news. Bad news first: there are more than 14 things you have to do to speed up your pages. The good news is I've started ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/04/30/high-performance-web-sites-part-2/ At Web 2.0 Expo today I announce the release of Cuzillion. The tag line is 'cuz there are zillion pages to check. It's indispensable for people like me who are always pushing browsers to their limit trying to figure out how to squeeze out a little more performance. I'm constantly ... http://www.stevesouders.com/blog/2008/04/25/cuzillion/