Tag: Nicholas Zakas

  • High Performance JavaScript

    Five contributors to O’Reilly’s “High Performance JavaScript” (Nicholas Zakas, Stoyan Stefanov, Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, and Matt Sweeney) discuss advanced JavaScript and DOM scripting optimizations at the April 2010 BayJax meetup at Yahoo. Original source

  • Enough with the JavaScript Already by Nicholas Zakas

    Slides can be found here — http://www.slideshare.net/nzakas/enough-withthejavascriptalready After consulting with several companies on performance related issues, it became clear that one of the biggest performance issues facing websites today is the sheer amount of JavaScript needed to power the page. The demand for more interactive and responsive applications has driven JavaScript usage through the roof.…

  • Best of Fluent 2012: Maintainable JavaScript

    Video of Nicholas Zakas from his Fluent Conference 2012 Presentation Maintainable JavaScript tackles the difficult problem of writing code as part of a large team. When you’re writing code that only you will change, there aren’t any issues. As soon as you’re writing code that someone else is going to also be changing, you need…