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Hi
We're looking for a few user group members who can participate in one or
two of our tutorials that we're live streaming from our Velocity
conference next Tuesday in Santa Clara. This is a test run and we're
hoping people can offer feedback and help troubleshoot.
If you're interested in participating, send an email to me,
marsee@oreilly.com, and let me know which one you can watch or if you're
available for both.
There are some best practices for a good experience. Streaming video and
audio requires a strong Internet connection; you'll want to be on a
hard-wired connection if possible. You'll also want to close other apps
that will compete for bandwidth.
Here are the two tutorials we'll be live streaming along with the time:
I Made a Map of the Internet - And What It Can Teach Us About Speeding
Up Websites
Tom Hughes-Croucher (Yahoo!)
1:45pm Tuesday, 06/22/2010
http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2010/public/schedule/detail/13096
How do we choose which part of our system to optimize? Stanford
algorithms legend Donald Knuth is famously quoted as saying “Premature
Optimization is the root of all evil”. And yet where is the research
showing where we should optimize our sites? Steve Souders made a
groundbreaking discovery at Yahoo! when he realized that the most
critical, and under-examined, part of web site optimization was the
front-end. However while there is lots of great performance research, we
still make plenty of assumption about what to optimize.
I have made a map of everything involved in getting from your computer,
via your ISP, to a web site and back to your eye balls. It’s exhaustive,
but that’s the point. Where the heck should we optimize?
The Browser Performance Toolkit
Matt Sweeney (Yahoo!)
3:45pm Tuesday, 06/22/2010
http://en.oreilly.com/velocity2010/public/schedule/detail/14350
For many developers, the modern web site has evolved into something more
like an application, requiring more specialized tools to measure
performance. This workshop will provide an overview of some of these
tools. You will learn how to profile the loading and running of a web
page in various browsers, identify performance bottlenecks, and examine
ways to optimize the overall user experience. Vendor supported tools
such as Firebug, Web Inspector, and IE Developer Tools will be covered
as well 3rd party software such as YSlow, PageSpeed, dynaTrace, and
more.
Thanks for your help and please pass along to anyone you think will be
interested.
Marsee
Marsee Henon
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
1005 Gravenstein Hwy North
Sebastopol, CA 95472
marsee@oreilly.com
707-827-7103
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