The jQuery Virtual Summit to be held November 19th

The Summit Series lets you build your skill set without having to leave your computer. Each Summit is a virtual conference—all you need is a computer and internet connection to attend. A new presentation begins at the top of every hour, and attendees can chat with each other and ask questions of the presenters throughout the day.

This Summit is for those who want to incorporate more JavaScript into their designs, whether it’s to create more dynamic user experiences or just to add more functionality and aesthetic appeal. The jQuery Summit is ideal for those who want to deepen their understanding of this powerful JavaScript framework.

Paul Irish, Consultant, Emering Interactions at Molecular, will present:

jQuery Anti-Patters for Performance & Compression
jQuery makes it quite easy for you to write some pretty inefficient code, so we'll discuss how to develop in a terse style but with the best possible performance.

We'll cover:

• Why everything you've learned about the context argument is wrong.
• Optimal code architecture approaches, e.g. Module Pattern, Constructors, Object Literal
• Why jQuery 1.3 flipped most selector optimization advice on its head
• Where Sizzle doesn't optimize where you'd think it would
• How to write jQuery plugins that are blazingly fast

In this session we'll also touch on how to prepare your code for a run through the YUI Compressor. Using real-world examples, we'll reduce the minified size of scripts by 50% using techniques that retain readability and maintainability.

For more information , please visit the jQuery Summit web site.