O’Reilly Velocity Conference – New York

My favorite front-end conference has always been O'Reilly's Velocity Conference because the conference series has focused on one of the most undervalued parts of client side coding: speed. So often we're so excited that our JavaScript works that we forget that speed, efficiency, and performance are just as important.
The next Velocity event is coming up in New York, October 12-14. The best code speed conference is coming to one of the best cities in the world. Exciting stuff but what's better than an early registration and David Walsh Blog discount?!
20% Discount with 20DWalsh
Registration for Velocity New York is open! Register early for the best price on tickets and reserve your spot to learn all about web performance, DevOps, continuous delivery and more. Use code 20DWALSH to save 20% in addition to best price!
![CSS 3D Folding Animation]()
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...
![An Interview with Eric Meyer]()
Your early CSS books were instrumental in pushing my love for front end technologies. What was it about CSS that you fell in love with and drove you to write about it?
At first blush, it was the simplicity of it as compared to the table-and-spacer...
![Create a Quick MooTools Slideshow with Preloading Images]()
I've been creating a lot of slideshow posts lately. Why, you ask? Because they help me get chicks. A quick formula for you:
The following code snippet will show you how to create a simple slideshow with MooTools; the script will also...
![HTML5 Placeholder Styling with CSS]()
Last week I showed you how you could style selected text with CSS. I've searched for more interesting CSS style properties and found another: INPUT placeholder styling. Let me show you how to style placeholder text within INPUTelements with some unique CSS code.
The CSS
Firefox...