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I’m currently attending the O’Reilly Conference, Velocity Web Performance and Operations. It’s the first of its kind, focusing on building web applications that scale. My focus for the conference is to build on top of what I already know and dive deeper into performance best practice, database tuning, achieving more with less, launching […]

Jeff Atwood made an interesting comment on his blog, Coding Horror, about how to take advantage of AJAX to send sort-of heartbeat back to the server to keep the session from expiring. I think this is a great idea. Getting automatically logged out is extremely annoying (unless of course it’s my bank in […]

The Presentation
Without presentation a web page is just text. In the early days of building web sites styles and colors were mixed with JavaScript and large animated gifs. Yes, during those days they were referred to as “web sites,” no one called them “web apps” yet. And to be frank, with all […]