Why Do I Like Web Performance? For One Thing, it’s Easier to Measure Success

One of the reasons I’m drawn to the performance side of the business is that it’s one of the few pieces of of your site or application where you can really know when you’re doing the right thing. There are a lot of questions that can run through your head during a site build. Is […]

Front End Performance for the Common Man: Practical Strategies to Speed Up Your Site

Front End Performance for the Common Man: Practical Strategies to Speed Up Your Site from rob larsen on Vimeo. Follow along with the presentation. (PowerPoint presentation) Here’s the sample ant build script referenced in the deck. (Zip file) And here’s the article mentioned in one of the early slides: Why Front End Performance Matters to […]

Downloads From Last Night’s Presentation

I presented at Bocoup last night. It went really well. As always great people showed up and I think I did okay with my side of the bargain. I shot some video, we’ll see how that turns out. If it’s of reasonable quality I’ll be sure to share. For anyone interested, here are a couple […]

Reminder- I’m Presenting on Front End Performance Next Week (May 19)

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 Day: Wednesday […]

How To Make a Web Site the Modern Way. Part 11: The New HTML5 Elements

I promised one last post on HTML elements. This is it. This one will be a quick tour through some of the new semantic HTML5 elements. I’ve been using them regularly for a while now and I’m still trying to wrap my head around the best way to use some of them (in this, I’m […]