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HTTPWatch from Simon Perkins (Simtec Limited); Fiddler from Eric Lawrence (Microsoft); AOL PageTest from Eric Goldsmith (AOL, LLC); Profiling Dynamic Web Applications with Firebug from John J. Barton (IBM); moderated by Velocity co-chair Steve Souders of Google.

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Web developers are asking more from today’s browsers — more speed, more functionality, and more ability to make web applications that make users happy. To talk about how browser development happens with respect to new standards, such as what influences decisions around which new APIs to implement first and how to implement new features in the face of still-changing standards proposals, we have a series of representatives from Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, and Opera taking part in a panel discussion moderated by Mike Schroepfer, VP of Engineering at Facebook.

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Mads Ager

V8 is Google’s high-performance JavaScript engine used in Google Chrome. V8 is optimized for well-designed object-oriented applications that make heavy use of objects, function calls, and property access. This talk will provide an overview of the internals of V8 and dive into the advanced virtual-machine technology used. Specifically, details of the use of hidden classes, inline caching, precise generational garbage collection, and snapshotting will be presented. The final part of the talk will discuss initiatives that will propel V8 to the next performance level.

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Steve Souders

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.

Using Firebug for CSS from kristarella on Vimeo.

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This is a demonstration of how to use Firebug, a Firefox addon, to investigate CSS.
It was done using Firefox 3.0.5 and Firebug 1.3.

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Glenn Jones is the creative director of Madgex, a company that delivers sites and web-based applications for the publishing and recruitment sectors. We had a chance to talk to Glenn about Identify, a Firefox extension that combines identities across various social network/media sites and provides you with a profile about an individual.

Identify makes extensive use of Google’s Social Graph API to find out about which sites an individual has profiles on, and then uses YQL to collect the information. In this video, Glenn provides more details about Identify

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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.