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 […]
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I love living here in Silicon Valley. I’m surrounded by smart, passionate people who don’t feel they need permission to make a difference. Case in point was BarCampBlock this weekend–a spontaneous un-conference-style gathering of 900+ hackers and other valleyites sprawled across the streets of Palo Alto, as well as inside the offices of several host […]
High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong O’Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) 2007 Portland, OR July 25, 2007 Download PPT (7.3MB) 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 […]
The 7-Eleven in Mountain View (near the old Plaxo office) has been transformed into a Kwik-E-Mart in support up the upcoming Simpsons movie. There are lot of hardcore Simpsons fans at Plaxo (myself included), so we had to check this out for ourselves. When we got there, there was a line out the door. So […]
We just discovered at Plaxo that redirecting using meta-refresh tags has a surprising performance penalty as a side-effect: it causes all cached resources on the redirected-to page to be re-requested (as if the user had hit the “refresh” button). Even though most of them should return 304s (if you’re caching them properly), this still results […]
I’ll be attending the Internet Identity Workshop (IIW2007a, to be precise) this Mon-Wed at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. I went to IIW2006b last year and was immediately excited to be a part of this community. The people involved are not only very smart, they’re pragmatic, hands-on, accessible, and motivated by all […]
Now that the OSCON 07 site is up, I guess it’s official–for the second year in a row, I’ve been selected to give a talk at O’Reilly’s annual Open Source Convention (OSCON) in Portland, OR from July 23-27. The title of my talk this year is “High-Performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught is Wrong“. […]
In honor of the first officially-sanctioned Lunch 2.0 at Yahoo today, I thought I would finally write something on how and why we started this valley phenomenon: Living in Silicon Valley is expensive, and the traffic on 101 sucks. So why not telecommute from, say, somewhere in the Midwest? What does living out here get […]
Smarten Up Your Address Book with a Plaxo Mashup Mashup University (part of Mashup Camp 2) Mountain View, CA (Computer History Museum) July 12, 2006 Download PPT (1.7MB) Watch the complete video of my talk (QT, 78MB) Plaxo sponsored me to give a talk at the beginning of MashupCamp2 (alongside speakers from Microsoft, AOL, and […]
You know, I used to care about my presence on the web. Or, rather, I used to do actually something about it. In fact, I’ve had a personal web page since 1993, when I was a subfreshman at Uni High in Urbana, IL (the page was called mosaic.home.html, which kinda dates it). Sadly, I can’t […]