The idea of having an interactive overview of Drupal phases emerged from various Drupal workshops I did in the past months. People were looking into the materials and the workflows on the paper, but it wasn't interactive, nor it was possible to give it a different function (name) to try it out what it does instead of general function names, which are hard to understand for newbies.

On March 19th, 2011, I have attended a conference called The Big Clean here in Prague. It was organised in two cities - Prague (Czech) and Jyväskylä (Finland) - as a pre-event of a global event that will be organised later this year.

The Big Clean is a a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to access, clean, organise & re-use local Government Data.

Stumbled upon head.loader.js which drastically improves scripts loading. See the tests here http://headjs.com/test/script.html

From the documentation (http://headjs.com/#theory):
"Head JS frees the page from script loading burden. The scripts loading is separated from the page rendering and they are always loaded in paraller no matter how many of them and what the browser is. The difference on the user experience can be dramatic especially on the initial page load when the scripts are not yet in cache. It's your crucial first impression."

Experimental code for implementing head.loader.js in Drupal 7. Comments welcome

And yet again, took a job that someone else started long time ago, although I did say that I won't do this ever again. "It is almost finished, it needs only few tweaks there and there and we are done." they are saying. I am staying calm, due to time pressure (and the fact that I had to log in to a windows xp machine through vnc - actual server), throwing down some estimates without looking at the site build. Easy tasks you would say, add a border there, fix margin, login box there and mostly styling issues. Nothing I haven't done before.

They wanted to launch the site as soon as possible and of course, only these little things needed to be done. It's ok, shouldn't take me longer than half a day and surely it will help them. So they signed off the budget and we were ready to fix few simple issues and get it out. But...