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Minify v2 is coming along, but it’s time to start getting some real-world testing, so last night I started serving this site’s Javascript and CSS (at least the 6 files in my WordPress templates) via a recent Minify snapshot.
As you can see below, I was serving 67K over 6 requests and was using some [...]

Back in August I came across Ryan Grove’s great Minify project, which is essentially a PHP client-optimizing file server for Javascript and CSS. I was in the design stage of a project with similar goals so I decided to try merging the two projects. Ryan thought the result had potential to be the base of [...]

I didn’t go, of course (next year hopefully), but I can live vicariously through slides!
Ilia Alshanetsky had my favorites:

Securing PHP Applications (.pdf) - Comprehensive with good examples. If you read Chris Shiflett, there won’t be a lot new covered, but still a good read.
PHP & Performance (.pdf) - Again, covering all the bases with some [...]

Phalanger is a .NET compiler for PHP5. Yes, PHP code compiled into CLR running on .NET (or Mono), with access to .NET classes as PHP objects (!), and apparently running almost twice as fast as on the PHP CGI. And they’ve implemented enough native PHP functions identically enough to run fairly extensive apps (MediaWiki, WordPress, [...]

Bookmarklet authors have it tough. On top of the usual challenges of cross-browser Javascript testing, we’ve traditionally also had to workaround IE’s character limit and jump through hoops to embed code inside of javascript: links.
Bookmarklet Server (source) eases testing and deployment by allowing you to keep code where it should be—in .js files. A single [...]