Packt Author to Present at Ajax Experience

Stoyan Stefanov, performance engineer at Yahoo! and author of two phpBB books, PHP Programming with PEAR and new title Object-Oriented JavaScript will be presenting two sessions at the upcoming Ajax Experience.

His first presentation is a 60 minute session titled The 7 Habits for Exceptional Performance, with his second a five minute lightning round called Image Optimization - How Many of These 7 Mistakes Are You Making?

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"Improvements in Web site performance are similar to improvements in energy or fuel efficiency: We make great progress, yet we end up consuming more. Learn how to balance design and features with the need for speed.

This session highlights Yahoo!'s latest research results and performance breakthroughs. Apple's iPhone has changed the game for Web browsing on mobile devices. While the iPhone presents new and exciting opportunities for Web developers, it also provides a unique set of performance challenges. Solutions that reduce the number of components improve the user experience greatly by making pages load faster.

In this session, we explore case studies that demonstrate how these solutions have accelerated the user experience on Yahoo!'s most prominent Web pages." In this session attendees will learn:

• Performance optimizations that give you the biggest bang for your buck;
• Latest research results and performance breakthroughs discovered at Yahoo!
• Apple iPhone's cache characteristics.
• How to balance features with speed.

His second session is a brief foray into image optimization, covering 7 mistakes regularly made by developers. Again, over to Stoyan:

"Do you want to speed up your Web pages and lower you hosting bills? Do you want to do this with little or no code changes while keeping the same beautiful UI? Come learn about 7 simple steps to put your Web images on a diet. Take off (and keep off) all the bytes you put on under the stress of chasing that next killer feature.

You start your new Web site with a blank page. And it's fast! Then you start adding stuff to the page only to make it slower. Optimizing the size of the images you put on the page and send over the network sounds like a no-brainer. Yet, you'd be surprised how many of the world's most visited sites and not following this simple advice and sent way over than they need to. Are you making the same mistakes?"

In this session attendees will learn how to:

• Speed up your Web pages and lower hosting bills
• Optimize the size of your images
• Make your pages much leaner with no code changes and no human intervention, automatically

A full agenda for the Ajax Experience is available and there's still a week left to save $100 on the registration fee with the special early bird rate.

For more information, please visit the conference website at: http://ajaxexperience.techtarget.com