23 - Nicholas Zakas

This week we sat down with Nicholas Zakas to talk about High Performance JavaScript.

Host: Ralph Whitbeck & Rey Bango.

Interview

This week Ralph and Rey sat down with Nicholas Zakas from Yahoo after his talk at the Bay Area jQuery Conference. We talk about his new book High Performance JavaScript, his talk at jQuery Conference and tips for jQuery developers to make their sites faster.

Rey and Ralph give us their tutorial and plugin of the week recommendations.

Links from interview

• YUI Theater — “High Performance JavaScript” by Nicholas Zakas, Stoyan Stefanov, Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Matt Sweeney (92 min.) (archived)

Rey Bango interviews Nicholas Zakas for his blog

Rey Bango’s video interview with Nicholas Zakas

Plugin of the week

jQuery Offline – A jQuery plugin by Yehuda Katz to facilitate conveniently working with local storage.

Tutorial of the week

Since this is Rey’s first tutorial of the week, he wanted to make sure you knew about the fantastic tutorials found at:

• http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials (archived)
• Learning jQuery