Nicholas Zakas

Nicholas Zakas
Staff Software Engineer, Box

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Nicholas C. Zakas is a principal front end engineer at Yahoo!, where he works on the Yahoo! homepage, is a contributor to the YUI library, and teaches classes on JavaScript to employees and Yahoo! Juku participants. Nicholas also is the author of Professional JavaScript, co-author of High Performance JavaScript, co-author of Professional Ajax, and a contributor to the book Even Faster Web Sites in addition to over a dozen online articles. Prior to the homepage, Nicholas worked on My Yahoo!, helping to bring the world’s most popular personalized homepage into the Web 2.0 era.

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3:50pm Wednesday, 06/23/2010
Building Performance Into the New Yahoo! Homepage
Web Performance 209/210
Nicholas Zakas (Box)
Average rating: ****.
(4.57, 37 ratings)
In 2009, Yahoo! introduced an overhaul of its flagship site, www.yahoo.com. The move saw a shift from a mostly-static page to a dynamic, customizable, highly interactive page. What didn't change? Perceived performance by users. Learn the techniques that allowed a smooth transition for 100 million monthly users. Read more.

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