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Javascript Boot Camp Tutorial

Filed under: Conferences,Front Page,JavaScript,Web 2.0 News — Chris Cornutt at 7:59 am on Thursday, July 27, 2006

Whether you’re a “back to basics” kind of person or are just starting out and want to catch up quick on your Javascript skills, you might want to check out this great resource from a talk/tutuorial given by Amy Hoy at this year’s OSCON - a Javascript Boot Camp.

Even though AJAX wouldn’t ever have become so popular if the Javascript world hadn’t suddenly exploded with mature development and testing tools, there’s little information on how to be a really good Javascript programmer. This talk is for everyone who feels their Javascript skills just aren’t up to snuff.

She’s provided all of the materials in the post on her website, including:

  • Downloads - the source code and the slides (PDF)
  • Links to specific libraries mentioned
  • Web site reference links
  • Del.icio.us tagged items for Javascript and this tutorial

Ajax Optimization Techniques Talk (OSCON 2006)

Filed under: Conferences,Front Page,Presentation,Web 2.0 News — Chris Cornutt at 7:46 am on Thursday, July 27, 2006

On the SitePoint Blogs today, “live” from this year’s OSCON, there’s a new post covering the talk from Kevin Henrikson concerning how to squeeze the most out of your Ajax connections - a few handy optimization techniques.

Kevin Henrikson of Zimbra gave a brisk presentation covering some of the lessons his organization has learned and the “dirty tricks” it has implemented to improve the performance of web applications that rely on large JavaScript/CSS codebases. Here’s a quick run-down of the items he covered. The slides of the talk are up on the Zimbra blog.

Among the tips mentioned are:

  • using a web page analyzer to find the trouble spots in your pages
  • Javascript compression tools to reduce the size even more
  • properly structured HTML to make for faster rendering times

The post also mentions two of the case studies Kevin did - one centered around a blog post he did on optimization and the other on lala.com. Check out the slides for the full story…