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Great tips from Robert Nyman on improving your website performance for a better rating in YSlow.

How to effectively use JavaScript Event Delegation to reduce code and increase efficiency.

Chris Heilmann has a rave about the problems with using Ajax the wrong way and the sudden surprise in some quarters about this well trodden truth. I, for one, get a bit of a laugh about the return of good old DHTML (once a dirty word) under a new flag. Used well Ajax can enhance a product but for some reason there’s a human tendency out there to over-use good things and make them bad things. OK Chris says it better.

New Relic BETA offers the ability to drill down and measure your Ruby on Rails performance.

If you’ve been following the industry gossip about those for and against Ruby on Rails you might have already heard that Twitter, after all its problems scaling, are ditching Ruby on Rails. There appears to be a strong for and against Rails debate about whether or not it is easily scalable.

A List Apart’s two most recent articles, issue 257, includes Creating More Using Less Effort with Ruby on Rails by Michael Slater and Getting Started with Ruby on Rails by Dan Benjamin.

Paul Smith on A List Apart has an inspiring article called Take Control of your Maps where he describes what it takes to make a mapping application adn shows you how to be more creative with it.

Mathew Gertner, currently working on Mozilla’s Prism project, has an informative comparison of single site browser applications that covers Bubbles, Fluid, Prism and the higher end Adobe Air API.