Woo! The last five episodes of The Breakpoint (our show on tooling) are now up and you can keep track of them by subscribing to this playlist. We're hoping to cover finding and nailing memory leak issues soon, so watch this space, maybe <3zz.

jQuery Proven Performance Tips & Tricks (Slides) from jQuery London

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Understanding the factors that impact performance is essential for the development of memory and data-intensive apps, especially those relying on JavaScript and DOM-manipulation libraries like jQuery. In this talk, I present ten useful tips and tricks that can help you … Continue reading →

jQuery Performance Tips And Tricks – A Free 30 Minute Talk

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Hey guys. Today we’re going to take a look at best practices, tips and tricks for improving the performance of your jQuery code. Performance optimization is a crucial aspect of building ‘snappy’ client-side applications and something which all developers … Continue reading →

Designer Days #1 – How To Create An Effective Logo With Help From The Experts

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For those of you that follow my work, you’ll know that I’m passionate about two things: JavaScript and powerful Design. In this latest series, I’ve invited some of the best professionals in the graphics, logo and web design industries … Continue reading →

About

I'm on the Chrome team at Google, working on tools to help improve developer productivity and satisfaction.

My personal projects include TodoMVC, which helps developers compare JavaScript MVC frameworks and AuraJS. I've also written 'Developing Backbone.js Applications' and 'Learning JavaScript Design Patterns'.

Fundamentals

First do it, then do it right, then do it better. This is one fundamental I always keep in mind when developing anything.

If you're a developer wishing to learn something new, regardless of skill-level, remember that as important as it is to read, it's equally as important to get out there and *do*.

Create a new gist or fiddle, pop open the console and experiment. It's effing fun.

Friends

I feel honored to have quite a few friends involved in OSS, many of who are spread across the world but remain active and passionate at what they do. Thanks to my wife, family and the OT-crew for being ah-mazing.