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High Performance Websites

By Dan | Published: May 26, 2011

This was a great read. Certainly learned a lot of useful lessons on front-end optimizations. Written by Steve Souders (previously lead Optimization efforts at Yahoo!), who also developed YSlow! – a Firefox add-on (actually an add-on to the Firefox add-on called Firebug) that gives your web pages a grade from A through F and tells [...]

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Requirement Analysis: Asking the Right Questions

By Dan | Published: January 17, 2011

Many times when you’re eliciting requirements, you may be asked the question: “We need to add a textbox on this page. How long will it take?” That’s when your brain starts firing off neurons and begins synthesizing questions so you’ll be able to best meet the demands of the task. To aid your requirements analysis [...]

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Recursion vs For-Loop

By Dan | Published: October 29, 2010

So I’m currently in process of reading the infamous “Code Complete” by Steve McConnell. So far it’s been an amazing book and I definitely guarantee it to any programmer out there. I’ve just read the section on recursion and it mentioned how doing recursion for a factorial (or Fibonacci) function is not as efficient as [...]

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Podcasts for the Web Developer and Designer

By Dan | Published: October 13, 2010

There are several ways to stay up-to-date with tech related news. Whether it’s via RSS feeds, newsletters, forums, user-groups—you name it—tons! What do all these have in common? You have to use your eyes and can’t consume them while driving! So, if you want a more passive way to stay in touch with what’s going [...]

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