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've integrated minification to my deployment process. I do it in perl with packages JavaScript::Minifier and CSS::Minifier.

During my development, I want to keep the script expanded. I put some comments in my HTML so that my script knows which files to put togetheer and minify:

A couple of regular expression, and I quickly get a "production" version with minified files.