Sessions at YUIConf 2011 about Web Performance

Thursday 3rd November 2011

• There is no off-season: NFL.com's move to YUI

  by Ryan Cannon

  For its dev team, the NFL season is a breakneck-paced stream of new features, last-minute sponsorships and custom UIs. Developer Ryan Cannon describes the NFL's transition from Prototype to YUI, and demonstrates how YUI's JavaScript infrastructure has improved site performance, reduced development time and improved collaboration.

  Intended audience: Front-end developers on medium-to-large sites.

  • Case Studies
  • JavaScript
  • Prototype
  • Web Performance
  • YUI

  At 1:00pm to 2:00pm, Thursday 3rd November

  Coverage slide deck

• Automating Website Optimization

  by Pat Cavit

  An overview of some of the ways you can use tools like Ant to automate the grunt work of making your site as fast as possible.

  Intended audience: Newer developers who may not be as performance-conscious; people who hate doing manual optimization work.

  • Ant
  • JavaScript
  • Web Performance
  • YUI

  At 3:30pm to 4:30pm, Thursday 3rd November

  Coverage video