High Performance Ajax Applications

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Presenter(s):	Julien Lecomte, Yahoo!
Where:	Yahoo! Talk (description)
When:	December 20, 2007
Video:	iPod (m4v) Video
Download:	PowerPoint

[edit] Tools mentioned

• Asset compression
  • YUI Compressor for CSS and JavaScript (developed by Julien)
  • PngCrush and PngOptimizer for PNGs
• Performance monitoring
  • YSlow - Yahoo! performance testing plugin for Firebug
  • Roundtrip - some Yahoo!'s internal tool
• Memory management
  • Windows task manager
  • IE Leak Detector a.k.a Drip
• Stopwatch profiling
  • AjaxView
  • JsLex
  • YUI profiler
• JavaScript profiling
  • Venkman (Mozilla)
  • Firebug Profiler (Mozilla)
  • Apatana IDE (has JavaScript profiler for IE?)