I’m in the middle of finishing up my presentation, so I figured I might as well make an effort to get some people to show up to see the results of my hard work
Here’s the write up:
Front End Performance for the Common Man: Practical Strategies to Speed Up Your Site
Rob Larsen will examine the core concepts and techniques behind the performance of the web’s fastest sites and will translate them into practical examples. This talk will cut across several technologies (JavaScript, CSS, Ant, Apache and more) to present a suite of tools any developer can use to speed up their site- no matter the size or budget. RSVP to The Event Page.
It’s going to be a really good talk- full of practical examples and advice for every flavor and level of web developer. You should totally go.
There’s always a slide about performance in my presentations. This time? Every slide will be about performance. I’m chomping at the bit to get started on this one.
The Bocoup guys were crazy enough to invite me down to talk about my favorite topic- front end performance. Here’s the write up:
Front End Performance for the Common Man: Practical Strategies to Speed Up Your Site
Rob Larsen will examine the core concepts and techniques behind the performance of the web’s fastest sites and will translate them into practical examples. This talk will cut across several technologies (JavaScript, CSS, Ant, Apache and more) to present a suite of tools any developer can use to speed up their site- no matter the size or budget. RSVP to The Event Page.
It’s going to be a really good talk- full of practical examples and advice for every flavor and level of web developer. You should totally go.
Actually, you should just go to all the Bocoup talks. Smart people talking about killer technology = fun times. I’ll be a regular there.
You’ve all seen this, but now here it is from the official channel.
Speaking of WordPress and HTML5, I’m knee deep in the process of getting DrunkenFist.com relaunched and I’ve been doing the WordPress component for the past few days. It’s super complicated. Which means, of course, I’m having a blast with it
Just in time for me to do it all over again tonight at the Boston JavaScript Meetup. Well, not completely all over again as it’s a new presentation tonight, but it’ll still be two times at NERD this week.
Rob Larsen will lead an interactive session outlining the basic steps to getting started with using JavaScript using modern techniques. For the beginner it will serve as a road map to using JavaScript with confidence. For the more advanced user it will serve and a forum to discuss fundamental best practices as Rob will be soliciting feedback and discussion throughout.
It’ll be basically a step by step on getting JavaScript onto a page, in a modern, “best practices” way. Starting with attaching the script to the page using the script tag all the way through writing a function and attaching it to an element. Each step will be split into three levels of discussion:
For the beginners each will simply be presented as “this is how you do it”
For the intermediate user it will be “this is why we do it this way”
For the advanced user it will be a question- “where does this fall apart and how can we make it better”
WordCamp Boston is less than a week away, and as part of my presentation I wanted to show the new elements in an environment that basically everyone that works on WordPress sites will recognize- the default theme. To that end, I mocked up a functioning HTML5ized version of the home page to use as an example. That was both easy and fun. Read the rest of this entry »
