Tech Presentations

Very thorough overview of techniques to improve real and perceived performance of front-end heavy web applications by Julien Lecomte. Not only browser-server communication, but page rendering, JavaScript parsing, DOM manipulations, memory leaking and so on. He also mentions whole lot of tools for development and profiling.

See on TechPresentations.org: High Performance Ajax Applications

Video presentation by Douglas Crockford about history of networked computer interfaces and AJAX being the latest development but still far from being state of the art.

See it on TechPresentations.org: The State of Ajax

Another presentation by Douglas Crockford about JavaScript being a good language - despite the title of presentations, he looks at both good and bad parts of the language and describes how to go about using it.

See on TechPresentations.org: JavaScript: The Good Parts

A couple of good presentations from AJAX Experience conference - JavaScript Library Overview by John Resig, creator of jQuery for those who wants to pick a good JS framework and Learning to Love Forms by Aaron Gustafson for those who struggle with formatting forms using CSS (I never could do that properly).

One more LJ Scaling Storytime by Brad Fitzpatrick with more slides about memcached and Perlbal.

See it on TechPresentations.org: Behind the Scenes at LiveJournal: Scaling Storytime