Let's Build the Web We Want
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That’s an unwieldy title, if I ever saw (wrote?) one. Still it describes the code in question exactly, so unwieldy will have to do for this post. Anyway, for SEO purposes I’ve wanted to rename some of my files from underscore delineated (_) to hyphen delineated (-) for a couple of years now. I chose […]
Yeah, Even to You. 🙂 I suspect it’s because the people that are most vocal about the subject are from places like Google and Yahoo!, but it seems to me that a lot of people think that front end performance really only matters for extremely high traffic sites. When talking about these kind of things […]
It made quite a splash recently so I’m sure some of you are curious about Amazon’s new Content Delivery Network (CDN) service, CloudFront. I know the Amazon Web Services suite of tools can be a little intimidating for non-developers, so this article outline how pretty much any reasonably technical person can get themselves up and […]
I was reading John Resig’s Browser Page Load Performance post earlier today and followed up from there on the concept of Link prefetching. Currently supported by Firefox 2+, Link prefetching is a browser based mechanism for fetching “future” content. Considering I wrote (and ultimately scrapped*) similar functionality for my gallery pages, I was obviously intrigued.
A question was posed in the comments on my JSON Feeds For Fun and Profit Part 2 – Callbacks with Twitter post about handling Twitter search results for a #hashtag. As with the rest of Twitter’s API, dealing with search results is relatively straightforward. This post will examine how to handle a #hashtag search. If […]