Dietrich Kappe

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. JavaScript Profiling In some cases you may not know precisely where a performance bottleneck lies. Using our technique of surrounding suspected bottlenecks with timestamps won't work in these cases. We need a way to get a broader overview of application performance. Fortunately there are a number of profiling tools. Unfortunately, they're not standard across browsers. One of the best tools is the Venkman JavaScript Debugger from Mozilla. It's available at www.moz... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Code Optimization

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AJAXWorld Report: GWT & Java EE – Where Are All of the Alligators?

Just a quick update from the latest AJAXWorld conference (which is now over). I gave my talk at AJAXWorld East 2008 and got some interesting reactions. Met a lot of cool folks, put some faces to names, got to sit on a panel with Douglas Crockford. Cool beans. More next week. The talk really had three parts.What is GWT and how do you use it? How do I resurface an existing J2EE app? Where are all of the alligators? There is always a risk that someone or other feels that too little or too much time is spent in one part or the other. In fact, while converting a JSP to produce JSON so i... (more)

Tuning AJAX Applications for Performance

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Tuning AJAX Applications for Performance Performance can have different meanings, depending on your perspective. If you're the end user of an application, performance means tha... (more)

Real-World AJAX Book Preview: Web Server-Based Compression

This content is reprinted from Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters published by SYS-CON Books. To order the entire book now along with companion DVDs for the special pre-order price, click here for more information. Aimed at everyone from enterprise developers to self-taught scripters, Real-World AJAX: Secrets of the Masters is the perfect book for anyone who wants to start developing AJAX applications. Web Server-Based Compression One way of speeding up transfer times of resources between the server and the browser is to reduce the size of the resource being transferred. Prac... (more)