Addy Osmani's Blog, page 9

Improving Web App Performance With the Chrome DevTools Timeline and Profiles

  We all want to create high performance web applications. As our apps get more complex, we may want to support rich animations and that ideal 60 frames a second that keep our apps responsive and snappy.   Being aware of … Continue reading →

A Few New Things Coming To JavaScript

I believe the day-to-day practice of writing JavaScript is going to change dramatically for the better when ECMAScript.next arrives. The coming year is going to be an exciting time for developers as features proposed or finalised for the next versions … Continue reading →

The Breakpoint – Tooling Tips And Tricks (Playlist)

In case you've missed it, Paul Irish and I have been doing a regular show on tooling - helping developers improve their workflow using the Chrome DevTools, Yeoman and more. The last five episodes are now up on YouTube and … Continue reading →

Writing Fast, Memory-Efficient JavaScript

JavaScript engines such as Google’s V8 (Chrome, Node) are specifically designed for the fast execution of large JavaScript applications. As you develop, if you care about memory usage and performance, you should be aware of some of what’s going on … Continue reading →

The New And Improved Developer Toolbelt – Video From Fronteers

The recording of my talk from Fronteers is now up: http://vimeo.com/52450814. In it I discuss the front-end developer tooling landscape spanning the command-line, your editor, real-time feedback, build process and a few other (hopefully) helpful pieces. Slides are also available.

The Breakpoint: Episode 3 – DevTools Source Maps, Shortcut Secrets And JSRun

Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte.   In this episode, we take Coffeescript to JavaScript to Minified and all the way back with source maps. In addition to a new Coffeescript source map workflow, we cover … Continue reading →

The Breakpoint: Episode 2 – SASS Source Maps, Feature Inspection And More.

Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte. I and the (real) Paul Irish return for the second live episode of the Breakpoint – a new show focusing on developer tooling and workflow. In this episode we show … Continue reading →

The Breakpoint with Paul Irish and Addy Osmani: Episode 1

Watch this video on YouTube Embedded with WP YouTube Lyte. In this first episode of the The Breakpoint – a new show dedicated to developer tools and time-saving techniques—Paul Irish and I talk about Yeoman and new experimental features in … Continue reading →

HNpod 11: HTML5, Apps, Yeoman and Web Audio

I was fortunate to be on the HackerNews podcast, discussing Yeoman, HTML5, the state of apps and Web Audio. It was a fun show and we talked through a number of issue around native apps vs. web apps as well … Continue reading →

Yeoman, At Your Service.

When kicking off a new application, we always seem to have libraries we need to manually find and add, boilerplate code that needs to be written and a thorough build and testing process we need to get setup. Today we’re … Continue reading →