The other night at the NY Web Performance Meetup organized by Sergey Chernyshev, I had the opportunity to hear software engineer Michael Bolin, (Google Calendar, Google Tasks, and the Closure Compiler) step a room full of speed hungry developers through build steps outlined in his book Closure: The Definitive Guide http://amzn.to/GuideClosure and then introduce his tool to further speed the process, plovr http://www.plovr.com/.
Admittedly, Sergey’s 101 intro, set it up but still. That I could follow this stuff was attributable mostly to Michael’s thoughtful, methodical delivery, but partly I think to cold immersion. You see “back in the day” at the SF convention center, I also took a seat in the front, then to absorb Java. Sometimes its useful to imagine oneself in a foreign country immersed in a new language and culture. Something always sticks.
Here’s what stuck. This web performance crowd are driven to speed your sites. Yes, the advertising model is pushing them but there’s another thing. Something observed later when free tech books were handed out. Rather than a raffle, Sergey required a brainstorm. Then you saw it, pure pleasure in thinking up better answers - the books were an excuse. We are getting our better, faster user experience but they get the real charge.
Tuesday Nov 23rd NY Web Performance meets for SPEED
RSVP bit.ly/aciIJY 7pm at Logic Works.
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