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Ever since I started moving on from just developing websites to more complex web applications, I’ve learned different ways of optimizing your web application for speed and efficiency. It’s important to keep your web application running snappy, because as LinkedIn has found out: the likeliness at which visitors bounce is directly related to the performance of your web application. Inside you will read about six optimization tips that I commonly apply to my websites and web applications. These tips involve saving on HTTP requests as well as techniques on optimizing code.

Did you ever wonder how Google specified an iPhone specific icon for their mobile Gmail Tasks application to your iPhone home screen? It turns out it’s about as simple as applying any regular favicon.

Just yesterday, news surfaced that Google was going to release a browser which was being used internally. Now that it’s been released as a beta for Windows as of this moment, how did it do?

Just yesterday, I found everystockphoto which is a search engine for free photos. This is a brilliant idea for a search engine as there are free photos on flickr too but searching the photos with those specific creative commons attributes isn’t as easily accessible as everystockphoto provides.

In this post, I will follow up on some of the comments and requests that generated around my newly popular post, How to Create Your Very Own “Archive Navigator”. I’ll cover graceful degradation (for non-javascript), and how to achieve tabs like I did.

Developing a Facebook application is a great starting point in learning to develop database driven web applications. Prior to developing the Wii Friend Number app, I was mostly a front end developer. After releasing it, I felt I was a more well-rounded developer now that I understood the basics of back end development.