During the jQuery conference in Mountain View, I got a chance to video interview a number of people. First up are Steve Souders, Google's Performance Evangelist. Apart from Steve's great comments on performance and mobile, what I truly appreciated was that I caught him just before sessions were about to start and without hesitation he took the time to speak with me. It's a true testament to how great a guy Steve is and a lesson to all those that may be intimidated about approaching some of the stars of web development; just do it because they're very approachable and cool!

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Then I spoke with Gonzalo Cordero of Yahoo! (who is also a contributor to YUI) about BayJax, the monthly meetup sponsored by Yahoo! which tackles some great front-end development discussions. Gonzalo coordinates the meetings and has made BayJax the envy of many developers with it's great sessions. <a href="http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2010/04/21/video-hpjs/">The most recent event</a> included presentations from the authors of the new book <a href="http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/059680279X?ie=UTF8&tag=rebasbl-20&linkCode=as2&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=059680279X">High Performance JavaScript</a><img src="http://www.assoc-amazon.com/e/ir?t=rebasbl-20&l=as2&o=1&a=059680279X" width="1" height="1" border="0" alt="" style="border:none !important; margin:0px !important;" />
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