Ever wondered why your site tends to load slowly, even though you have broadband connection? Well, it might be because your site is not adhering to the 13 Rules for High Performance Web Sites. Thankfully there is now a tool out that lets you check, what is going wrong and what you can do to speed up your site. Continue…
This is not supposed to be an advertising post for the maps API of my employer. Definitely not. But after playing around with the Google Maps API a little bit and using it for my GeoLinkr plugin, I felt it was time to check out “the other API” from Yahoo! and do some comparison. Continue…
Since I have started working at Yahoo! mid of May, I got in contact with some advanced JavaScript programming techniques. I got a bit confused at first, cause e.g. using a singleton in JavaScript was kind of a new to me. So I did some testing and evaluation on the different coding techniques that I got confronted with and tried to grasp what kind of pattern actually does what. Continue…