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Not everyone is blessed with a high-speed Internet connection. Even if everyone were, there can be hundreds of reasons why your Web application seems slow and sluggish. In this age of ever-increasing broadband speed, don't think that you shouldn't pay attention to page load times. Learn how to Shave off valuable seconds of your page load times and even more valuable milliseconds of your request and response times. This article provides over twenty tips that will help you create a faster and better experience for your visitors.

Today's Web designer has to face a pretty scary fact: they can't design for themselves, or even someone that's mostly like themselves. Instead, applications must be built based on the consumer, who comes loaded with expectation and pre-disposition. This article helps you Understand what your apps are competing against, how do you build applications that feel usable, intuitive, and satisfying to today's typical Internet user, and how to take the upper hand.

Flapjax, an improved way to build Asynchronous JavaScript and XML (Ajax) applications, offers more than just a library of conveniences. This tutorial emphasizes simple, self-contained steps to successfully apply Flapjax to real-world problems. Learn how to write and run simple Flapjax programs in several modes, including a compiled form suitable for deployment.

XML has become pervasive in the computing world and is buried more and more deeply into modern applications and operating systems. It's imperative for the Perl programmer to develop a good understanding of how to use it. In a surprisingly large number of cases, you only need one tool to integrate XML into a Perl application, XML::Simple. This article tells you where to get it, how to use it, and where to go next.

PHP 5 introduced XMLReader, a new class for reading Extensible Markup Language (XML). Unlike SimpleXML or the Document Object Model (DOM), XMLReader operates in streaming mode, which enables PHP pages to process XML documents in an efficient streaming mode. That is, it reads the document from start to finish. This makes it very fast, and very efficient.

Learn how the power of IBM Lotus Domino and Ajax can add awareness to your Domino Web applications. One reason we love this technique is that it doesn’t load Microsoft ActiveX controls, instantiate a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) instance, or require a flash animation player. It is a lightweight, low-tech solution for most clients.

This article explains, with easy to understand examples, just how to get coding quickly.