Sep 12


I came across this article on the Yahoo Developer Network. Its from the book “High Performance Web Sites” by Steve Souders. Here is a brief list of what Steve is suggesting and link to the original:

  1. Make Fewer HTTP Requests
  2. Use a Content Delivery Network
  3. Add an Expires Header
  4. Gzip Components
  5. Put Stylesheets at the Top
  6. Put Scripts at the Bottom
  7. Avoid CSS Expressions
  8. Make JavaScript and CSS External
  9. Reduce DNS Lookups
  10. Minify JavaScript
  11. Avoid Redirects
  12. Remove Duplicate Scripts
  13. Configure ETags
Aug 28

Recently Adobe released new version of Coldfusion in which they put a lot of Ajax features. For example user interface controls, proxy for data exchange and Ajax logging and debugging.
View demos here.
View Coldfusion web page

Aug 23

DevReach 2007, the premier event for professional developers in South Eastern Europe, is coming your way! Held in Sofia, Bulgaria, DevReach brings together the development community and acclaimed international speakers for a practical talk on the latest Microsoft technologies. The event is organized by Telerik and Kulov.net and supported by Microsoft Bulgaria.

Following last year’s success, DevReach 2007 will try to raise the bar even further - more speakers, more sessions and more expert-level content. Several of last year’s lectors such as Richard Campbell, Carl Franklin, Stephen Forte and Goksin Bakir will be joined by other renown community figures such as Tim Huckaby, who will be making the keynote, Miguel Castro, Dino Esposito, Joel Semeniuk, Lino Tadros and others.

The conference will offer 4 simultaneous tracks with more than 40 practical sessions in 2 days. All sessions will be recorded and will be available to attendees for viewing after the end of the conference.
more for the event

Jul 31
Yahoo! released an excellent performance utility on YDN called YSlow, to help you understand why your pages are slow. YSlow is a Firebug addon. It provides different views to analyze your pages : yslow-perfview.png
  • Performance View: YSlow analyzes any web page and generates a grade for each rule and an overall grade. If a page can be improved, YSlow lists the specific changes to be made.
  • Stats View: YSlow calculates the total size of the web page for both empty cache and primed cache scenarios, as well as information about cookies.
  • Components View : YSlow lists all the components in the page including their type, URL, Expires date, gzip status, load time, size, and ETag. You can also view the HTTP response headers for any component.

Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team have a great reference with best practices for improving web performance, including rules and research papers. Be sure to check it out.

Feb 22

Hi there, welcome to my new blog.
Here I will try to share info on some tricks that impressed me over the net.

Basically thats going to be some new .net control, Java script or just anything related to web 2.0 and AJAX.

Feel free to post comments and suggestions!

Best