O’Reilly Velocity Conference – Santa Clara Giveaway!
O'Reilly Velocity Conference in Santa Clara is right around the bend: June 20-23, 2016. Velocity is boasting an awesome lineup of speakers covering several different topics. Learn to build websites, apps, and services that are fast, scalable, resilient, and highly available!

Velocity is my favorite of the O'Reilly Conference series because speed optimization is fun, creative, and has huge payoff for users on desktop and mobile devices!
Bronze Pass Giveaway
My friends at O'Reilly are letting me give away one free Bronze Pass to Velocity Santa Clara. Want to win? In the comment section below, share your favorite performance tip. Bonus points for code samples!
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![Facebook Open Graph META Tags]()
It's no secret that Facebook has become a major traffic driver for all types of websites. Nowadays even large corporations steer consumers toward their Facebook pages instead of the corporate websites directly. And of course there are Facebook "Like" and "Recommend" widgets on every website. One...
![Convert XML to JSON with JavaScript]()
If you follow me on Twitter, you know that I've been working on a super top secret mobile application using Appcelerator Titanium. The experience has been great: using JavaScript to create easy to write, easy to test, native mobile apps has been fun. My...
![MooTools PulseFade Plugin]()
I was recently driven to create a MooTools plugin that would take an element and fade it to a min from a max for a given number of times. Here's the result of my Moo-foolery.
The MooTools JavaScript
Options of the class include:
min: (defaults to .5) the...
![Create GitHub-Style Buttons with CSS and jQuery, MooTools, or Dojo JavaScript]()
I'm what you would consider a bit of a GitHub fanboy. We all know that GitHub is the perfect place to store repositories of open source code, but I think my love of GitHub goes beyond that. GitHub seems to understand that most...
Send Link preload headers for your CSS, JS, Fonts, and other assets so that the browser can get a head start on loading them. Bonus: If you use CloudFlare, or another CDN that supports it, the assets will be pushed via HTTP2 Server Push.
Sample .htaccess code from my blog: https://gist.github.com/adamzr/0c4e14999263aa4854b91f9245e16de8