How to organize minification and packaging of css and js files to speed up website?

Question

I am doing speed optimization for my website application. And I found some practises to do that. For example Best Practices for Speeding Up Your Web Site from Yahoo. Among t

Answer 1

I do ASP.NET, so I use CruiseControl.NET with NAnt for my build process. A part of this build process is compressing with YUICompressor which in my experience is the best compressor out there.

If you don't do ASP.NET, theres still the original CruiseControl with Ant that you can use in the same capacity.

The reason I find this a superior set up is because a) all the tedious stuff is automated and b) if you're testing on your own machine you dont have to debug a single super long string of JS :)