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Even Faster Websites

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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.

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Ben Lisbakken

In this session, learn advanced Javascript, why App Engine is so easy to develop on, protecting from XSRF vulnerabilities, cutting the load time of your app in half, and hear about general client-side web app techniques. These lessons are taught in the context of the design and development of the AJAX API Playground (http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playgr ound/), a tool which can help developers learn about and experiment with many of Google’s APIs.

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Jon Kragh

Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the code behind Vast Rank’s “Ranking Map” that provides contextual College Rankings based on what a user has in view on his or her Map. Code examples will be shown utilizing the Google Maps API, the Google Maps Marker Manager, the Google Client Geocoder, and the Google Client Location information exposed by the AJAX API loader. The session will end by discussing future plans to incorporate additional Google API’s including the Translation API to translate international content, the Languages API to utilize jQuery, and the Google AJAX Search API to improve the user’s search experience.

Drugs.com

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Drugs.com provides free, accurate and independent advice on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines & natural products. Last week, Drugs.com launched My Medication Record, a new app on My Yahoo! powered by Drugs.com Mednotes. Special guest Alison Rhodes, the Safety Mom, provides an overview of the app

Mint.com, Part 2

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Mint.com, the leading online personal finance management website, recently developed an open app for My Yahoo!. Built on the Yahoo! Application Platform, Mint.com Personal Finance provides My Yahoo! users with a secure view into their financial essentials. Mint’s VP of Products, Aaron Forth, provides an overview of Mint and their new app on My Yahoo!

kaChing

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kaChing provides a realistic online trading environment that allows community members to manage a virtual portfolio, compete with friends, and follow some of the world’s smartest investors. Founder Dan Carroll provides an overview of the new kaChing app on My Yahoo!

Using Firebug for CSS

Using Firebug for CSS from kristarella on Vimeo.

Overview

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.

Speed Up Your JavaScript

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Web Exponents: Speed Up Your JavaScript
Presented by Nicholas C. Zakas.

As an interpreted language, JavaScript is filled with hidden performance issues that conspire to slow down your code and ruin the user experience. Learn exactly what is fast, what is slow, and what you can do to squeeze that last bit of performance out of your JavaScript code. Read the rest of this entry »

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  • Mokugift.com Green Lifestyle

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    Today is World Environment Day and we’re happy to announce the availability of Mokugift Green Lifestyle, a new open app for My Yahoo!. Founder Hans Chung explains how Green Lifestyle raises environmental awareness through its social and educational features.

    Mint.com, Part 1

    Overview

    Mint.com, the leading online personal finance management website, recently developed an open app for My Yahoo!. Built on the Yahoo! Application Platform, Mint.com Personal Finance provides My Yahoo! users with a secure view into their financial essentials. Mint’s VP of Engineering, David Michaels, provides an overview of Mint and their new app on My Yahoo!