Welcome
This web site will accompany a book we're writing entitled "High Performance Web Site Techniques" which will be published online in the first quarter of 2009. It will draw on our experiences working at Yahoo! and will focus on practical tips and tricks to help you write higher performance front-end code and will be of benefit to you regardless of the size and popularity of the web sites you work on. Right now the site's not much more than a holding page but we've got lots planned between now and when the book launches - stay tuned and check back often.
CSS Sprite Generator Source Code
We've just released the source code for our CSS sprite generation tool on Launchpad. It's covered by a BSD license which allows both personal and commercial use. If you've got Bazaar installed you can checkout the remote branch. Alternatively you can download a tzr.gz of the files from the same location.
Checking out the release branch
Simply run bzr branch lp:css-sprite-generator/0.1 from the command line.
CSS Sprite Generator
Our first tool is a CSS Sprite Generator. Upload a ZIP file containing individual images and it will return a combined image and all the CSS background-position rules required to display each component image. It accepts and can generate PNG, GIF and JPEGs and provides a range of options allowing you to tailor the output image and CSS to your site. We hope you find it useful and please contact us if you've got ideas about how to improve it.
Perflicious
- 9th JunePerformance Research, Part 5: iPhone Cacheability - Making it Stick ยป Yahoo! User Interface Blog
- 9th JuneHigh Performance Web Sites :: Performance Impact of CSS Selectors
- 8th JuneGoogle Code Blog: Introducing Page Speed
- 29th AprilMaatkit: A toolkit that provides advanced functionality for MySQL
- 22nd AprilFinding and fixing memory leaks in Python - amix blog
- 13th AprilMySQL UC 2007: MySQL Performance Cookbook
- 9th AprilTop 84 MySQL Performance Tips
About Us
Ed Eliot
Ed likes his coffee as foamy as possible and lovingly crafts quality PHP whilst caring about best practices in CSS, HTML and JavaScript.
Stuart Colville
Stu loves unix, shell scripting and has a deep love for Bazaar, JavaScript, Django and Python. If all else fails Stu could always get a job as a barista.