Web Developement

Web page performance is critical to keeping customers and visitors moving along on your site. Slow responses typically result in frustrated users, unhappy customers and worse, abandoned orders. It is important to reduce the number of requests generated by a web page in order to increase its actual and perceived performance.

One critical way is to reduce the number of external files loaded by a page. Another one is to reduce their size through compression. This post aims to take this concept a step further by automating this tedious process using open-source libraries.

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Steve “Cutters” Blades’ book on Ext-JS is out.

By using a series of straightforward examples backed by screenshots, Learning Ext JS will help you create web applications that look good and perform beyond the expectations of your users. This book is written for Web Application Developers who are familiar with HTML but may have little to no experience with JavaScript application development. If you are starting to build a new web application, or are re-vamping an existing web application, then this book is for you.

Get your copy today.

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What Kind of Web Developer Are You?

In this insightful post, Brian Reindel discusses the different disciplines typically associated with “web development.”

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