Google I/O looks like it’s right up my alley. I was surprised to see Steve Souders is presenting there. He’s the author of YSlow and Yahoo! was printing his 14 tips for speeding up website front-end performance on cards for Blogher last year (under the unusual title of “How to be a Better Binary Babe”). I have used YSlow to improve my own sites’ performance though I definitely don’t get an A on all of them yet. I’d love to hear what else he has to say on the subject.
I also see there’s one on Caja, another attempt to make Javascript “Safe”. While my first reaction to this and Douglas Crockford’s Adsafe is to roll my eyes, I know I’m going to hear a lot more about both soon so it’s best to dive in and find out what’s what. Really, I think the whole AJAX and Javascript topic is the most interesting part to me right now.
Jeff and I started tossing around the idea of making a trip out to I/O a few days ago. It doesn’t look like a real possibility but I saw that registration is open this morning so if any generous reader wants to contribute to sending me then drop me a line and we can talk 
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