The speaker lineup boasts a number of heavy hitters. I’m guessing those of you in the Web design profession will know the following name: Molly Holzschlag. If you don’t, crawl out from whatever rock you’ve been hiding under!

My own session at this conference will be on the topic of Web front-end performance. I’ve dubbed it High-Performance Web Interface Design, and I’ll focus on a practical approach to performance. Nothing I’ll show you is revolutionary. The problem is, even though it’s not revolutionary to get good client-side performance, people don’t do it, and users suffer terrible interfaces that don’t download, render, or interact in a snappy fashion.

This will be a relatively fast-paced overview of Web front-end performance, and I’ll show you a demo of a badly performing website (such as the type I see often), make some changes to it, and let you see the performance difference.

If you register, I would appreciate you entering my name in the “how did you hear about this” text box. That will give me a chance to win a laptop. *grin*

Further Reading:

• Speaking at CPOSC 2009
• Speaking at Enterprise LAMP Summit 2009
• PostgreSQL Conference East 2009, Day Three
• Sessions of interest at MySQL Conference and Expo 2009
• PostgreSQL Conference East 2009, Day Two