Day 2: SXSW Interactive 2009 « BLOG: Mitch Wilson, Austin TX

15Apr/090

Day 2: SXSW Interactive 2009

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Day two, I coverd 5 sessions. That's right. I session jumped the last three all in one hour, 20 minutes each.

Even Faster Websites

Steve Souders wrote the book, "High Performance Web sites" published by O'Reilly in 2007. He is methodical and makes extensive use of yslow and a packet sniffer. Steve demonstrated the performance hit of including inline JavaScript after a link to an external CSS stylesheet. Bascially, the browser will wait for the CSS to finish downloading before proceeding to execute the JavaScript. Other insights included no not using HTML to write script elements. Instead, dynamically add the script element. Doing so avoids inline Javascript that blocks parallel downloading.

First Year as a Freelancer

This was a session I will have to write more on later, since I took so many notes. I'll just say that I was really inspired by this session and made some contacts for possible collaboration later.

Freelance to Agency

A panel discussion with some really smart people nice enough to share their wisdom: Kristina Halvorson (Brain Traffic), Jeffrey Zeldman (Happy Cog, A List Apart, Zeldman.com) , Roger Black and Whitney Hess. If you have't guessed, I'm a full-time freelancer now. So this was a welcome follow up to the previous session about freelancing as well.

Interface Lessons Learned from Games

It's really late and I am going to stop writing very soon. More on this and the rest later.

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