If you’ve ever wanted web application programming to be a little more like desktop application programming then have a look at Sun’s experimental Lively Kernel project.
YUI Compressor version 2.2.1 has been released. Go forth and minify!
I added a very simple mod today that you might have noticed - there is now some text added dynamically to the search box that should give a better indication as to what that area is for.
Stylesheets and script files can often get quite large. Although they will be cached by the browser there is still the time delay (and bandwidth hit) of the first loading, which according to Yahoo! is more often than you think. Here’s a quick and dirty method of using PHP with gzip compression to send your CSS, Javascript and whatever else compressed to browsers.