Archive for 'Web development'
Using Netflix’s New API: A step-by-step guide
As a longtime avid Netflix fan, I was excited to see that they finally released an official API today. As an avid fan of the Open Web, I was even more excited to see that this API gives users full access to their ratings, reviews, and queue, and it does so using a familiar REST […]
Posted: October 1st, 2008 under Web development, Open Social Web.
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Performance Challenges for the Open Web (Stanford CS193H)
Performance Challenges for the Open Web
Stanford CS193H: High Performance Web Sites
Stanford, CA
September 29, 2008
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Web site performance guru Steve Souders is teaching a class at Stanford this fall on High Performance Web Sites (CS193H). He invited me to give a guest lecture to his class on the new performance challenges emerging from our […]
Posted: September 30th, 2008 under Papers and Talks, Web development, Open Social Web.
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The Future of Social Networks (Future of Web Apps Miami)
The Future of Social Networks
Future of Web Apps Miami (with Tantek Çelik and Brian Oberkirch)
Miami, FL
February 29, 2008
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In addition to the half-day workshop I presented at FOWA Miami, I also gave a talk as part of the main event with Tantek and Brian Orberkirch (who also has a great write-up of our talk) on […]
Posted: March 14th, 2008 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development, Open Social Web.
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Implementing Open Social Web support on your site (Future of Web Apps Miami)
Implementing Open Social Web support on your site
Future of Web Apps Miami (workshop)
Miami, FL
February 28, 2008
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I was invited to give a workshop and be on a panel at the Future of Web Apps in Miami. I attended the first FOWA in SF in 2006, and I really enjoyed it, so it was fun […]
Posted: March 2nd, 2008 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development, Open Social Web.
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OpenIDDevCamp was hack-tastic!
I spent the weekend in SF at OpenIDDevCamp, hosted at SixApart’s offices. In the style of BarCamp and iPhoneDevCamp, the idea was just to get a lot of people together who were interested in OpenID, provide the space and amenities for them to work together, and let them loose. About 30-40 people showed up, including […]
Posted: January 14th, 2008 under Personal, Plaxo, Web development, Open Social Web.
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OpenSocial and Plaxo: What a week!
Wow, I’m exhausted, but incredibly happy! I’ve been working insane hours all week to get Google’s just-announced OpenSocial APIs implemented in Plaxo Pulse and launched live by the time of their announcement. And we did it! We released full support Thursday night, making Plaxo the first site to publicly implement OpenSocial. Yay!
I only found […]
Posted: November 4th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development, Open Social Web.
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Advanced JavaScript (Widget Summit 2007)
Advanced JavaScript
Widget Summit 2007
San Francisco, CA
October 16, 2007
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Niall Kennedy asked me to speak at his second annual Widget Summit about “Advanced JavaScript” to a audience with a mix of business, product manager, and engineer types. Since I wasn’t sure how to target the talk, I decided to keep my prepared slides light and did […]
Posted: October 16th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development.
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My Ajax talk is now on YUI theater
When I gave my talk on High-Performance JavaScript at OSCON in July, I found out that I was speaking right before “Chief Performance Yahoo!” Steve Souders. To be honest, I was a bit nervous–we read everything Steve writes at Plaxo, and he runs a whole group at Yahoo that does nothing but focus on web […]
Posted: August 29th, 2007 under Personal, Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development.
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My quiet twitter friends are getting lost
I like twitter, and I use it a lot (I even a twitter widget on my web site). A lot of my friends use it too, some more regularly than others. I use Bloglines to keep up with the stream of status updates from my twitter friends so I can check in periodically and pick […]
Posted: August 26th, 2007 under Personal, Web development.
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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 […]
Posted: July 25th, 2007 under Papers and Talks, Plaxo, Web development.
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