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		<title>5 Asset Management Tricks for Faster Websites</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 11 May 2010 17:04:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to front-end performance, good asset management is just as important as good code.  Simply put: downloading assets takes time.

Computers and browsers now render pages and execute Javascript faster than ever.  Although <strong>user bandwidth</strong> is increasing, the filesize of assets has been growing in turn.

These factors, combined with the rise of the <strong>mobile web</strong>, have made bandwidth the primary bottleneck in website performance.

Here are <strong>5 simple steps</strong> to reduce download times with better asset management on your sites. <a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/5-asset-management-tricks-for-faster-websites">Read more...</a>]]></description>
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		<title>10 Things Every Good Web Developer Should Know (A Checklist)</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 12 Aug 2009 15:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My favorite thing about web development is the wide variety of skills it uses.  Being a good developer means staying on your toes and always learning, because there are so many important skills and these are constantly changing.

Here's a checklist of 10 skills that are some of the most important for good web developers to have.  These focus a bit on front-end skills, but they apply to all developers:

<span class="more-link"><a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/10-things-every-web-developer-should-know-2#more-299" title="Continue reading this post" rel="nofollow">(more&#8230;)</a></span>]]></description>
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		<title>normalurl.com: Free URL Redirection</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 30 Sep 2008 15:43:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Jon Raasch</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[general web]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[There's nothing worse than those long, ugly URLs with twenty variables in the query string.  In recent years there have been a number of websites offering a free service where users can create shorter links to these complex URLs.  While a short URL is great, the links provided by most of these sites are computer generated and impossible to remember.  

This weekend I programmed a simple tool to allow users to create their own links and normalize ugly URLs called <a href="http://normalurl.com">normalurl.com</a>.  Just like other URL rewriting services, this website is completely free and allows anonymous users to easily create new URL redirects.  However this ... <a href="http://jonraasch.com/blog/normalurl-free-url-redirection-service" title="Continue reading this entry" rel="nofollow">(more...)</a>]]></description>
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