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BitCoin seems to be latest rage with wild value fluctuations. The past few days have seen a very wild roller coaster for the online currency. Most of the world's BitCoins are exchanged at MtGox.com , which has had some issues either with a denial of service
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I love a good cheeseburger, always have. My all time favorite was a local grease pit in my hometown of Cleburne Texas that sadly is no more. Nonetheless I have many other options, especially when I go home to Texas, like this weekend! Today I came across
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When I released the panorama.js library earlier this month I mentioned it was written to NOT depend on jQuery. Eliminating my need to depend on jQuery is an overall goal of mine. The primary reason is the pursuit of better app performance and a shift
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A few months ago Mark Zuckerberg made headlines all over the place when he said HTML5 wasn't there yet and announced Facebook would be going all native with their mobile applications. As someone who believes whole heartedly in the ability of HTML5 this
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A few years ago I had to painfully admit I was really lost when it came to what today I call modern web development. I decided I had to change, I had to get myself up to speed and I had to relearn things. Working with ASP.NET WebForms since Beta 1 really
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I love jQuery and like most modern web developers it was the gateway that got me into heavy AJAX development. But like all things that make life easy it comes with a cost and that cost is performance. I find myself caught between using jQuery and just
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There are so many problems caused by images when it comes to web performance, or even native apps for that matter. There is a balance that must be met when it comes to considering images and modern web applications. We want beautiful and engaging applications
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I have decided to write posts on Web Performance Optimization (WPO) starting today with some resources to help you get started. What is WPO? I consider it the practice of not just making web pages serve faster but utilizing client-side techniques to make
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It's hard to believe we are entering the last quarter of 2012 already and I have had a very busy year. I have been able to present in at least 7 states and a few online presentations. To finish the year I will visit at least 2 more states and the
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If you know me you know I am a fanatic about application performance and that I am a big fan of Steve Souders and the practice of web performance optimization (WPO). In the past I have recommended both High Performance Web Sites and Even Faster Web Sites
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Yesterday I posted about including a favicon for every website or web application to increase performance. Another common oversight is not setting a far-future expires header expiration date. I think the Yahoo performance page says it really well why
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This week we, my Tellago co-workers, had a background discussion about Instagram experiences scaling to 35 million users . Jesus sent around a PDF from a presentation Mike Krieger, one of the Instagram founders, gave recently. The 'first culprit'
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As I have immersed myself into modern web and mobile architectures I have come to one conclusion, multipage web sites are dead men walking. Constant request, retrieve, react is not a competitive application design going forward. The combination of high
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Last week Amazon announced its tablet, called the Kindle Fire . But what was probably the bigger news of course is the Fire’s browser, Silk. By now you have heard Amazon is taking a new approach to make the web faster by leveraging their EC2 server infrastructure
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Last week Google released a new web page speed analysis tool called Page Speed . Page speed is one of the primary factors that weighs into visitor satisfaction. If you were not aware Google and the other search engines actually measure this as part of
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