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High Performance Web Sites: The Importance of Front-End Performance In 2004, I started the Exceptional Performance group at Yahoo!. We're a small team chartered to measure and improve the performance of Yahoo!'s products. Having worked as a back-end engineer most of my career, I approached this as I would a code optimization project - I profiled web performance to identify where there was the greatest opportunity for improvement. Since our goal is to improve the end-user experience, I measured response times in a browser over various bandwidth speeds. What I saw is illustrated in the following chart showing HTTP traffic for http://www.yahoo.com.

Dans les (gué)guerres informatiques, ce qui fait en général la différence c’est le social engineering (ou “ingénierie sociale”), qui consiste en gros à travailler l’humain plutôt que la machine. Par exemple, pourquoi passer des heures à essayer toutes les combinaisons d’un mot de passe, alors qu’il est si facile d’appeler son propriétaire en se faisant passer pour le support technique, et le lui demander directement par téléphone. Forcément, en général c’est plus compliqué, mais en fait pas tant que ça, comme le prouve les nombreux emails de phishing (ou “hameçonnage“) à la mode en ce moment.

The world of Widgets has changed a lot since Konfabulator came along back in 2003, when it was the only option of its kind for developers. Since then, similar offerings have emerged from several places, including Apple, and tomorrow, Microsoft as part of Vista. It has grown to such a point that Newsweek is proclaiming 2007 as the Year of the Widget.

After spending a few hours getting comfortable with Yahoo!’s new Event utility that was recently released along with many other sweet tools via YUIBlog, I became convinced that it is the dopest, sweetest, most tight, most sexiest event utility on the planet.

Welcome to the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. We are very happy to be sharing our library with the design and development community. This is our first drop of what we hope to be a monthly release cycle for the publication of patterns.