The Suburban Chicago PHP & Web Development Meetup

Here are the slides from my presentation at this month’s meetup. If they don’t make a lot of sense, don’t worry. I’ll be updating them with narration in the next few days.

UPDATE: I added narration this evening. Sorry I sound so out of it. This is the sixth or seventh take.

Yeah, we’re a PHP group. But most of the PHP code out there is on the web, and modern web sites rely heavily on Javascript for AJAX & DHTML effects.

This talk from last year’s OSCONconference talks about ways to improve Javascript performance. Some of these techniques are pretty sneaky, and aren’t immediately obvious. But I’ve tried some of them out, and they made a big difference in the how performance was perceived, even if they didn’t make big actual improvements.

Here’s my presentation for tonight, in case you don’t feel like going out in the snow…

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