Julien Lecomte, author of the YUI Compressor gave a talk on High Performance Ajax Applications. He refers to some of the tricks we learnt from Steve Souders' research on the 14 rules for faster-loading web sites but also gives us more insight specifically on fine tuning JavaScript to perform up a gear. I hope you learn a few neat tricks from this video, I know I did.

[source: YUIBlog]

I have been doing Ajax in minute proportions over the months but haven't really got down to mastering the art. I don't consider myself an Ajax expert but I get dis-heartened with often seeing the spaghetti code of supposedly AJAX professionals, making it virtually impossible to update their code without breaking something.At the moment I'm reading Ajax in Action by Dave Crane et al. I'd recommend it to all spiring Ajaxians as it demonstrates how to code in a non-spaghetti style by employing Design Patterns. I'm only on Chapter 3 but it's looking good so far.

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