London HTML5 User Group:Peter Lubbers on Modern Web Apps

Event Info

Thu 7 Jul, 2011 from 6:30pm - 8:00pm

Skills Matter

116 - 120 Goswell Road

London, EC1V 7DP, UK (Map)

Cost: FREE -- registration required

Modern Web Apps should be focused, rich, and gorgeous, but they also need to be FAST. After all, being rich and beautiful isn't always enough! With web apps, faster is always better; nobody will ever complain that your site is too fast! HTML5 provides a lot of cool new features, but if you're not careful, you could end up with a slow app and that's not cool.

In this fast-paced, practical session, HTML5 expert @peterlubbers (author of Pro HTML5 Programming and founder of the San Francisco HTML5 User Group) will show you how to:

Take advantage of HTML5 Web Workers to significantly improve the responsiveness of your pages
Use HTML5 AppCache to preload resources
Install and use free performance analysis tools like YSlow, Page Speed, and Speed tracer to instantly see where you can improve your web pages
Optimize your web apps' JavaScript, CSS, Images and HTML
Minify your JavaScript, CSS, and HTML using free tools like Uglify and Closure compiler
Use the build tools that are part of the awesome (free) HTML5 Boilerplate templates
Use Image Data URIs to dramatically cut down the number of image requests you make
Configure your web server to speed up your web apps' performance
"Minify" how much you spend on the Pro HTML5 Programming e-book (all attendees will receive a 50% discount coupon)

Get more info and sign up here.