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 them are:

• Minify JavaScript and CSS.
• Minimize number of HTTP Requests by combining several files (css, js) into one.

My question is what infrastructure, tools and building process you use or can recommend to perform that?

Answer 1

According to the JavaScript Compression Rater, the most efficient tool is the YUI Compressor or JSMin.