Author Bobby Pearson

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Bobby Pearson is a web programmer for The Ivy Group in Charlottesville, Virginia. He began his professional life as a .NET application developer for his alma mater, the University of Virginia, and pivoted into open-source web technologies for a more dynamic and varied work experience. Bobby has been the lead programmer on dozens of websites and loves it when a plan comes together. Valid HTML, clever JavaScript, clean CSS, and neatly refactored PHP give him a cosmic sense of satisfaction.

Bobby lives with his wife Audrey and their two children Luke and Lydia just down the street from Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello. In season, he brings the fury as a linebacker on the Blue Ridge Church of Christ flag football team. Out of season, he makes a mean spicy chili.

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Don’t Get Crushed By The Load: Optimization Techniques And Strategies

August 16, 2013 — The proliferation of mobile devices, increased user expectations, and the very real risks of losing customers and dropping in search result rankings have laid a heavy burden on developers to optimize loading time at all costs. The Web development community previously didn’t spend much time concerning itself with load issues and for that reason and more, Web developers aren’t conditioned to think very hard about the unique load requirements of their clients’ websites. We need to include a specification for load requirements as a regular checklist item when bidding and planning Web work. Read more…