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Javascript Loading Speed
A great post by John Resig, the lead developer of jQuery. The pbWiki guys did an excellent analysis of many different Javascript libraries and there are a few takeaways that web developers should note. On the subject of compressing your Javascript files: Looking at the speed of loading jQuery in three forms: normal, minified (using Yahoo Min), and packed (using Packer). By order of file size, packed is the smallest, then minifed, then normal. However, the packed version has an overhead: It must be uncompressed, on the client-side, using a JavaScript decompression algorithm. This unpacking has a tangible cost in ...
Posted on: 2008 February 05
Filed under: Internet, Programming, Technology
Stale web developers
Jeremiah Owyan, an analyst at Forrester Research has a post titled "What to do when web developers get stale?" A seasoned web developer that knows Jeremiah expressed his frustration at the seemingly quickening pace of the web development eco-sphere. This web developer had been programming and developing websites for nearly 10 years, but admitted he was having a very hard time keeping up with the younger faster developers that knew the new languages. Jeremiah suggested that the individual in question try and move into a more business / production role. That was probably a good suggestion, but it's not the ...
Posted on: 2008 January 22
Filed under: Programming
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