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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CSS filter support recently landed within WebKit nightlies. CSS filters provide a method for modifying the rendering of a basic DOM element, image, or video. CSS filters allow for blurring, warping, and modifying the color intensity of elements. Let's have...
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Google Plus provides loads of inspiration for front-end developers, especially when it comes to the CSS and JavaScript wonders they create. Last year I duplicated their incredible PhotoStack effect with both MooTools and pure CSS; this time I'm going to duplicate...
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I wouldn't say that I'm addicted to checking Google Analytics but I do check my statistics often. I guess hoping for a huge burst of traffic from some unknown source. Anyway, I have multiple sites set up within my account. The way to...
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One of the little known HTML5 APIs is the window.postMessage API. window.postMessage allows for sending data messages between two windows/frames across domains. Essentially window.postMessage acts as cross-domain AJAX without the server shims. Let's take a look at how window.postMessage works and how you...
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