Steve Souders is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow, the Firebug extension gave a presentation at SXSW09 about how to speed up website performance.
Steve, now working at Google, discussed the next set of best practices he’s developed, including advanced techniques for loading JavaScript, where not to place inline scripts, and the importance of using multiple domains to improve web performance.
Here are his presentation notes (.pdf) as well.
In a recent Boagworld podcast, Paul Boag interviews John Resig, creator of jQuery. Boagworld is a weekly podcast show that talks about topics for people who design, develop and run websites.
In this snipet of the full weekly podcast, Paul asks John questions such as: when is it appropriate to use a JavaScript library; do people need to learn JavaScript before using a library, do libraries hide too much, what are some pros and cons of choosing a library, and much more.
Feel free to listen to all Boagworld’s podcasts or learn and talk to other fellow designers in their forum.
John Resig, creator of jQuery and author of Pro JavaScript Techniques, spoke at @Media 2008 in London about the different types of JavaScript libraries such as Prototype, jQuery, Yahoo! UI, and Dojo and why should one be used. John compares how each library can help the developer with DOM, Events, Animations, Ajax as well as interface widgets.
Here are the presentation slides (.pdf) he used for his talk.
Jeremy Keith and Derek Featherstone talked about how Ajax and Accessibility can live in harmony with each other at SXSW07. Topics covered include: progressive enhancement, the 3 layers of the web (content, presentation and behavior), thin vs. rich clients, XMLHttpRequest object, patterns, screen readers, and much more.
Here are their presentation notes (.pdf) as well.
Cameron Adams, web developer and author of Simply JavaScript gave a presentation at Web Directions North 08 about how JavaScript has affected the design and development of web interfaces.
Here are the presentation (.pdf) slides he used as well.
Author and developer Aaron Gustafson and Sarah Nelson of Adaptive Path gave a talk at @SXSW07 about how JavaScript can be used to ruin and improve the user experience of a website.
Here are the slides (.pdf) that were used during the presentation.
Jeremy Keith author of DOM Scripting: Web Design with JavaScript and Bulletproof Ajax and JavaScript guru along with Aaron Gustafson gave a talk about JavaScript and the DOM at SXSW06.
Here are the online slides that were given during the presentation.
Christian Heilmann author of Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax, member of the DOM Scripting Task Force and well-known blogger of many JavaScript articles gave a talk on Maintainable JavaScript.
Here is the web post with code examples for his presentation.
