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As of late I have been writing a lot of jQuery scripts for our Advisor Invest framework. jQuery has been a very powerful technique for making our web application faster, cleaner and slicker for the user experience. We are continuously looking at ways to improve performance in all arenas of our Advisor Invest framework. From minifying script and style sheet files to optimizing our server side code. Read more
This week I found myself researching methods to optimize site performance. While I usually get more in depth to particular technologies, such as techniques for faster Jquery calls to the DOM (Document Object Model), this article proved to be a good stepping stone for those that may not know where to start. There are some 35 suggestions for areas which a developer could dig into to optimize their web site or web application. Most of these techniques are very basic and easy to implement. For example minimizing Javascript and css saves file size and speeds up browser request time for those files. Check out the following article, you might find an idea that you had not thought of previously. http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/rules.html
Here is an interesting article I came across on Adobe’s blog. I often find myself browsing on how to increase the performance of our framework and have been looking at HTML5 for some time. While this article will show that performance for web video playback really depends on hardware, and the software’s access to that hardware, it was an informative read pitting the two technologies against each other. Read more
