O’Reilly Master Class

March 3, 2009 12:11 pm | 2 Comments

O’Reilly, my publisher, has launched a new initiative to bring a deeper level of information and engagement around their titles and technology focus areas. I’m excited to be a part of this by leading a one day workshop on Creating Higher Performance Web Sites. The workshop (or “Master Class” as they call it) is March 30, 9am-5pm, at the Mission Bay Conference Center in SF. The cost is $600 ($550 if you register before March 15).

This is going to be an engaging and fact-filled day for developers who care about web performance. I’m going to go over the best practices from my first book, High Performance Web Sites, which are also captured in YSlow. But I’m also going to touch on the chapters from my next book including loading scripts without blocking, flushing the document early, and using iframes sparingly. I’m just wrapping up these chapters now, so these are new insights “hot off the presses”. Since it’s a workshop, O’Reilly wants a fair amount of audience involvement, so I’m working up a few exercises to give attendees experience analyzing web pages to find performance bottlenecks.

There are also workshops from Doug Crockford (JavaScript: The Good Parts), Scott Berkun (Leading and Managing Breakthrough Projects), and Jonathan Zdziarski (iPhone Forensics: Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets). These workshops come right before Web 2.0 Expo in SF, so it’s a great doubleheader. I hope to see you there.