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YSlow, which was created by the developers at Yahoo!, is a firefox plugin that analyzes web pages and tells you why they're slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool. Below is a google tech talk session explaining all about it:

A great lesson to be learned by this video comes at the 20 minute mark with the discussion on "CSS Sprites". This is a brilliant idea, and extremely simple to implement.

I can't believe I wrote only one post in October. What a shame. There are quite a few good reasons for this, however:

• My wife and I are expecting our first!!!
• We're selling our home, so we spent a majority of October painting, cleaning, minor fixing.
• I'm busy at work (this one rarely changes).
• I'm extremely busy on the side.

I'll try to post more often, but the way things are going now, and continue to proceed, don't hold your breath. I hate to cut this short, but now it's time to learn some Object Oriented JavaScript.