Wouldn’t it be nice if last year you knew all the stuff that you learned this year? Playing the “could’ve, would’ve, should’ve” game isn’t going to make your application any faster. But getting tips from the web performance community will! With that in mind, I asked attendees at the Velocity 2013 pre-party, “What are you [...]
On the first day of Velocity 2013, I asked Steve Souders about an article he wrote last month on creating a web performance culture. Steve is the co-chair of the conference and the Head Performance Engineer at Google. As he explains, “It’s hard to make a strong argument for performance because we’re not talking about making visible changes to the [...]
One of the more exciting announcements from Google IO this year was the Android Team’s decision to release Android Studio. Android Studio is JetBrains’ IntelliJ IDEA with a brand new, extremely rich, Android-focused plugin. (It’s similar to Eclipse with the ADT package.) If you’re feeling adventurous, give it a spin by migrating one of your [...]
Matthew Setter is a professional technical writer and passionate web application developer. He’s also the founder of Malt Blue, the community for PHP web application development professionals and PHP Cloud Development Casts – learn Cloud Development through the lens of PHP. You can connect with him on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn or Google+ anytime. Summary Whether you develop small applications or large ones, it’s safe [...]
There’s been a lot of talk about the improvements in Ruby 2.0′s Garbage Collection performance. That’s a great thing, because GC in older versions of Ruby wasn’t very performant. Most of the conversation about generational GC (or other strategies) revolves around making Ruby GC more efficient. This has a great impact on your users, because less GC [...]
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