Velocity Conference Videos and Slides
Date : 2008 06 27 Category : Tech & DevelopmentSteve Souders has a wrap up on the Velocity conference that he co-chaired. He links to his favourite content from the show, which contains a lot of Ajax related work. It was really good to hear snippets form the show such as Eric Lawrence of Microsoft saying "we hope to make Steve's book out of date" as we see browser vendors look more and more on performance.
back-to-back demos of HTTPWatch, Fiddler, AOL PageTest, and Firebug Several talks about Firefox from Mike Connor and Internet Explorer from Eric Lawrence and Christian Stockwell (slides) Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax by Eric Schurman, Microsoft (slides) Jiffy: Open Source Performance Measurement and Instrumentation by Scott Ruthfield (great speaker), WhitePages.com (slides, video) Improving Netflix Performance by Bill Scott, Netflix (slides) Hotmail’s Performance Tuning Best Practices by Aladdin Nassar, Microsoft (slides) High-performance Ajax Applications by Julien Lecomte, Yahoo (slides) Image Optimization: How Many of These 7 Mistakes Are You Making by Stoyan Stefanov, Yahoo (slides)