"GOTO Copenhagen 2014 is designed for software developers, IT architects, agilists, product owners and project managers who want to go into depth with one or more subject areas e.g. Java, .Net, JavaScript, Web, Mobile, Cloud, Lean/Agile, and Architecture. Each training offers a chance to develop your skills and become more effective in your work. The conference includes 8-12 daily trainings. You can choose to sign up for just one training, a two-day-training, or join one training each day– it’s completely up to you! Our trainers are authors, experts and practitioners across various areas of software development so you get a chance to learn from and network with the best".

Workshop: "Web Performance Optimization"

Track: Web Performance Optimization / Time: Tuesday 09:45 - 17:30 / Location: Room 4

In this tutorial you will learn the tricks to enhance the performance on your website, improving navigation, usability and conversion of your website. That means: more sales, more visits and more happy users. The techniques that we will see are under a web discipline known as WPO (Web Performance Optimization). Today it's as important as SEO.

You will understand how to reduce the loading and visualization time on desktop and mobile, improving the whole user experience without harming the design or content.

We'll explain the theory behind WPO, some data that supports why your website will get more conversions and more than 50 tips that you will be able to apply on your website quickly to reduce up to 80% of the loading time.

We will cover:
•    Why performace is so important
•    What to measure in terms of performance
•    Tools to measure on desktop and mobile browsers
•    Tips for your server
•    Tips for your HTML and CSS code
•    Tips for your JavaScript code
•    Tips for your server and database
•    Tips for mobile devices
Requirements: experience with web design/development; knowledge of HTML, CSS and basic JavaScript.


 

Maximiliano Firtman, Adobe Community Professional

Maximiliano Firtman

Biography: Maximiliano Firtman

Max (@firt) is a mobile+web developer, trainer, speaker and writer. He is the author of several books, including "jQuery Mobile: Up and Running" and "Programming the Mobile Web"  published by O'Reilly Media and translated to 12 languages.

He is a frequent speaker at conferences around the world talking about mobile web, HTML5, web performance and wearable computing development. He has delivered hundreds of trainings on mobile+web technologies at open trainings in Europe, USA and Latin America as well as for top companies including Intel, Cisco, Apple, Yahoo!, Google and LinkedIn.

Max blogs about mobile web development at mobilexweb.com and he maintains "HTML5 compatibility tables for mobile" at mobilehtml5.org.

He has received different recognitions, including Nokia Developer Champion, Adobe Community Professional, BlackBerry Elite Developer and IE User Agent for his work with the mobile web community.