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Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow. In this talk, he presents some of the best practices from his next book, including optimizing CSS selectors, flushing the document early, and discovering why 15% of users don’t get compressed responses.

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In our latest YDN Lightning Talk, we have a seat with Tom Hughes-Croucher, an evangelist for Yahoo! developer tools. Tom has worked on front-end engineering for Yahoo! and a number of Accessibility standards for recognized standards bodies such as the World Wide Web consortium and the British Standards Institute. Tom shares about some developer tools he likes to use, including YQL.

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Today’s JavaScript is a decent language for writing small scale scripts. But even for beginners, it has too many minefields between
what beginners learn and what they need to know. And JavaScript is now increasingly used for serious software engineering projects –
straining to carry a load it was not designed for.
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Scrum methodology from Soul’ on Vimeo.

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This movie was realized during a project using the scrum methodology. This was a great experience during 6 months: an experience sharing, exchange, a little bit stress but lots of good humor and with finally 2 Web Portals.
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In this talk we explore web development and debugging strategies with Firebug. An overview of new and improved features and how to use them is presented. We wrap-up with a peek at FireUnit, a new Firebug extension by John Resig and Jan Odvarko, and it’s role in unittesting Firebug itself. (more…)