Velocity Conference Roundups

Here are some highlights from the recent Velocity Conference:

Bill Scott wrote in his article Looks Good Works Well: Velocity Conference '08 Notes that the highlights for him were:

• Building Faster Pages in Firefox and Internet Explorer - This is not the same presentation as was presented & Mozilla's is missing, hopefully they will post their slides.
• Even Faster Web Sites - This is the start of Steve's next book on Web Site performance.
• High Performance Ajax Applications - Julien's in depth look at tuning the world of DHTML.
• Hotmail's Performance Tuning Best Practices - This has some great material. Great lessons learned takeaways. A favorite for me.
• IE 8 What's Coming - Takeaway... its not Javascript engine that is slowing things down... it is rendering and layout.
• Image Optimization: How Many of These 7 Mistakes Are You Making - Crush those PNGs and more.
• Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax - Eric Shurman is a great speaker and full of experience. Great lessons here.

While over at Royal Pingdom they highlighted:

• Hotmail’s Performance Tuning Best Practices - Aladdin Nassar from Microsoft covers what Microsoft has learnt about website performance from Hotmail.


• High-performance Ajax Applications - Julien Lecomte from Yahoo! looks at different techniques and best practices for developing high-performance Ajax applications.


• Lessons Learned in Live Search Moving to and then Away from Ajax< - Eric Schurman from Microsoft presents the lessons learned from tuning the site performance of Live Search.


• Even Faster Web Sites - Steve Souders from Google (author of the book High Performance Web Sites and also the creator of Yslow) take a look at even more ways to speed up websites.


• Image Optimization: How Many of These 7 Mistakes Are You Making - Stoyan Stefanov from Yahoo! goes through image optimization tricks and tools that will help you speed up your website.


• Improving Netflix Performance - Bill Scott from Netflix gives plenty of insight into how Netflix improved their site performance in this interesting case study.