May 2008


26 May 2008 09:33 pm

Web performance has been a topic I have been working on for quite some time now. While building Nexaweb’s Ajax library we ran into and solved many challenges that developers will face while developing their own Ajax applications. Most of my effort has been around JavaScript performance and Ajax’s impact on a websites performance.
Ajax’s Impact on site performance

  • Increased Number of Requests
  • Increased Download Size
  • Increased JavaScript Code

Upcoming Webinar

On Thursday at 2:00pm myself and Ryan Breen from Gomez and Ajax Performance.com will be giving a free 2 hour webinar covering all things performance. Usually, I do this webinar by myself, so I am excited to get another person on board to give their perspective on Website performance. Ryan will be talking about:

  • Survey tools available for performance analysis
  • Establish and follow a site optimization workflow
  • Explore real world examples of how to improve the end user experience

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Go to Webex.com and sign up, its free, you can ask questions and we will be handing out information on how you can optimize the performance of your Website / Web application.

Sign up for the Webinar now!

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13 May 2008 07:51 am

The other day on TechCrunch was an article about Microsoft’s Popfly Mashup builder getting a game creator interface. Previously, I looked at Popfly for building Mashups but didn’t get past the Wack-a-mole Mashup, so this time I figured I would get the only person I know who has created games.

It is a tough road getting kids who have an interest in software, started in a structured way. Game software offers many of the skills that developers will need in the long run. Products GameMaker, Popfly and even flash give kids a nice tools that keep them interested and allow them to explore software until they are capable using structured languages. Read more…

05 May 2008 03:32 pm

I am sitting in a hotel room in Ireland waiting to get on a conference call. Why am I in Ireland? On Wednesday, I will giving a presentation at the XTech 2008 conference.

While I am sitting here, I figured I would create a Blog of these screen shots of various web pages. Mostly of things I couldn’t figure out or that were really badly designed. Read more…