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From PHP Classes blog: Everybody wants to squeeze as much performance of their Web applications as possible. Usually this requires skilled professionals to achieve. Fortunately, several performance evaluation tools are now available to make Web site performance tuning a much easier task.

This post discusses tools like YSlow and other techniques to tune your Web servers performance, as well the results of using such tools and techniques in a busy site like PHPClasses. Anyway, here is the post.

Here’s the main topic will be discussed:

– The browser side also matters

– YSlow 13 optimization rules

– Too much AJAX and external Javascript may kill your page performance

– Compacting Javascript files

– Minimization versus HTTP compression

– Lighttpd: a fast HTTP server worth your attention

– So, how does the PHPClasses site perform?

– A much faster site for premium subscribers

– Free premium subscription trials

– Your performance rules

The unforeseen war (if there is one!) between Flex/Flash lovers and Ajax lovers are still flaming up. Personally, I love both! Ajax and Flash. Another article had ccme up but this time is between Flash and Gaia.
7 reasons not to consider using Adobe Flex [and how Gaia compares]

However, code zen responded to that article here.

Yes that’s it. Nothing more to say. “Adobe AIR: 10 reasons to love it, 10 reasons to hate it. “

Found this link browsing one of the blogs on the blogosphere. It shows top 15 ruby books. I can’t tell if we can trust this web site or no, but there are customers reviews which were posted on amazon.

A greate article posted in Switch Blog on how to make an advanced Data Gride and loading the data from an external XML file.