JavaScript

One of the many recommendations that Yahoo makes on optimizing your web site for high amounts of traffic, and to make the response time speedier to your user is GZip encoding all your static content. I usually do this as a standard for setting up any of my Web Servers, in addition to setting expiration headers on my static content, to ensure that I am serving as little content as possible. ...

Recently I have been diving in to the world of REST and all the great things that come along with that. If you are not familiar with REST and what it means to have a REST Web Service for your site, you can go through the Digg API, which should give you a pretty good idea. My company has been contracted to build the framework for a new Web 2.0 initiative of one of our clients. You cannot do Web 2.0 if you are not using some kind of AJAX/REST combination. ...