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This week Ralph and Rey sat down with Nicholas Zakas from Yahoo after his talk at the Bay Area jQuery Conference. We talk about his new book High Performance JavaScript, his talk at jQuery Conference and tips for jQuery developers to make their sites faster.

Rey and Ralph give us their tutorial and plugin of the week recommendations.

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Permanent Sponsors

Guest

• Nicholas Zakas – principal front end engineer for the Yahoo! homepage.

Links from interview

YUI Theater — Nicholas Zakas, Stoyan Stefanov, Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Matt Sweeney: “High Performance JavaScript” (92 min.)

Rey Bango’s video interview with Nicholas Zakas

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Plugin of the week

jQuery Offline – A jQuery plugin to facilitate conveniently working with local storage.

Tutorial of the week

Since this is Rey’s first tutorial of the week, he wanted to make sure you knew about the fantastic tutorials found at:

• http://docs.jquery.com/Tutorials
• Learning jQuery

Wrap Up

Nicholas Zakas

• Blog: http://www.nczonline.net/
• Twitter: http://twitter.com/slicknet/

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