High-Performance JavaScript (OSCON 2007)
High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong
O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2007
Portland, OR
July 25, 2007
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This talk describes many of the counterintuitive lessons we learned at Plaxo while building Plaxo Online 3.0 and trying to make it fast.
In addition to sharing technical tricks and gotchas, I try to talk at a higher level about how to approach building fast web apps and how to change your normal assumptions as an engineer or designer when working inside a web browser. When I first practiced giving this talk, it took me about an hour, so I had to cut it down quite a bit. If you’re hungry for more, you can check out the “director’s cut” with all the extra slides still in. 
This is my second year it OSCON, and like last year I am really impressed by the quality and the attitude of the people here. Hearing smart people talk passionately about topics they’re experts in is inspiring to me, even–or perhaps especially–when I don’t know much about the topic. It’s also nice to catch up with friends and colleagues (many of whom actually live in the bay area, but somehow we only meet up at events like OSCON!)
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development.
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