Yesterday I listened to Scott Hanselman and Jeff Atwood discussing Website Optimization on Hanselminutes and Scott asked Jeff why external JavaScript files should be compressed for speed and performance of web sites and web applications.  One thing that Jeff didn’t answer with that I think is worth noting is that the YUI compressor that Jeff [...]

I’m a huge fan of learning new things (and I like to think that you are, too):
My buddy Dave O’Hara sent me this link: 7 Rules of Unobtusive JavaScript. A good overview of why you should be coding unobtrusively (which I do in as many cases as possible) and also explains some good things about [...]

It wasn’t until the recent flurry of the guardfather of web standards, Jeffrey Zeldman, and his posts about HTML 5 (see: In Defense of Web Developers, HTML 5 Nav Ambiguity, HTML 5 Is A Mess, and so forth) that I began looking into HTML 5.  I’m busy being pragmatic with my code today and making [...]

In the world of browser performance you can find yourself looking for the little things to make big differences, or even a lot of little things to make a bigger difference together.  I’ve been researching one particular change that is coming down the pike: native JSON handling.  John Resig wrote about the need for native [...]

I’m a huge fan of Douglas Crockford, this video is well worth your time to watch or listen to in the background: Quality. This is a great story about software development history as well as problems that you might be able to avoid.