In today’s modern web application world, jQuery is an essential part to almost anything. Given the ease of use and elegant API centered around making your life easy, it’s relatively effortless to get caught writing quick code that just… works. It’s even easier to ignore things like performance and object caching or even being aware of how your code scales on a larger level.

In this talk, Carl will present a number of ways on when to use jQuery and how you can write efficient code with an emphasis on performance. He’ll cover important techniques like event delegation & lazy evaluation, the how-to’s on being cognizant of performance factors and speed gains from various code “enhancements.”

You’ll learn how to write better code that will challenge you to think in new ways.