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YUI Theater — Todd Kloots: “Building Accessible Widgets with YUI 3″
We wrap up YUI Theater coverage of YUICONF 2009 with a talk from Todd Kloots (@toddkloots) on the accessibility features of YUI 3: “Building Accessible Widgets with YUI 3.” Todd covers YUI’s support for keyboard handling, focus styling ...
YUI Theater — Isaac Schlueter: “Solving Problems with YUI 3″
Isaac Schlueter (@izs) is developing the YUI 3 version of AutoComplete. In this YUICONF 2009 session, “Solving Problems with YUI 3,” he shows you how he’s working with the core YUI 3 toolkit to address the various challenges inherent in ...
YUI Theater — Reid Burke: “Building YAP Applications with YUI”
The Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) allows you to write programs that run on the Yahoo! network — on the Yahoo! home page, My Yahoo!, and beyond. Reid Burke (@reid) of the YAP team came to YUICONF 2009 to talk not only about YAP but about how you ...
YUI Theater — Todd Kloots: “YUI 3 Sugar”
Todd Kloots (@toddkloots) gave two talks at YUICONF 2009. In this session, he explores what he regards as the hidden gems of YUI 3 — the useful methods and properties found throughout the library’s core modules that help your write fast, ...
YUI Theater — Allen Rabinovich: “YUI 3 Infographics”
Allen Rabinovich spoke at YUICONF 2009 last month about the future of the YUI Charts project. He and colleague Tripp Bridges are hard at work on the next generation of the product, and in this session Allen talks through the thinking behind the new ...
YUI Theater — Luke Smith: “Debugging in YUI 3″
In Luke’s (@ls_n’s) session at YUICONF 2009 (the first, “Events Evolved,” is also available on video), he addressed common challenges in debugging JavaScript — and some of the tools and techniques unique to doing so in YUI ...
YUI Theater — Matt Sweeney: “YUI 3 Performance”
YUI architect Matt Sweeney’s (@msweeney) talk at YUICONF 2009 focused on extracting maximum performance from YUI 3. He drilled into the seed file options, lazy-loading strategies, and YUI 3 techniques for DOM and Event interaction that keep ...
YUI Theater — Satyen Desai: “A Widget Walkthrough”
Satyen Desai (@dezziness) leads development of the YUI 3 widget infrastructure, a system that is currently in beta and due for its first production-quality release in Q1 2010. At YUICONF 2009, Satyen provided a deep-dive on this emerging foundation in ...
YUI Theater — Chad Auld: “Introducing PHP Loader”
Chad Auld (@chadauld) is a Yahoo! engineer best known for his work on MiaCMS and Sideline. Chad recently drove the open-source release of YUI’s PHP Loader (taking over from original developer Adam Moore [@admo]), and he came to YUICONF 2009 last ...
YUI Theater — Matt Snider: “Introducing the YUI 2.8.0 Storage Utility”
Matt Snider is the lead fronted engineer (and employee #1) at Mint.com, the popular personal-finance site that was recently acquired by Intuit. Matt has been a longtime user of YUI at Mint, and he’s documented his own additions to YUI extensively ...
YUI Theater — Ron Adams: “Automated Integration Testing with YUI Test, Selenium and Hudson”
Ron Adams is a Yahoo! engineer in Southern California who has worked on a variety of Yahoo!’s media products including OMG and who now works for Yahoo! Sports. Ron has been working with colleagues in QA to automate the exercise of JavaScript unit ...
YUI Theater — Eric Ferraiuolo: “Web App Development with YUI 3″
Eric Ferraiuolo (@ericf) of Boston-area startup Oddnut Software made the trip to YUICONF 2009 last week to give a talk on the deployment of YUI 3-based applications in the real world. The talk presents a lot of wisdom Eric and his team have acquired ...
YUI Theater — Stephen Woods: “Creating Beautiful Documentation with YUI Doc”
Stephen Woods (@ysaw) introduced YUICONF 2009 attendees last week to the inner workings of YUI’s documentation tool, YUI Doc, written by YUI architect Adam Moore. If you’re interested in how YUI Doc can help you generate thorough, ...
YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “The State and Future of ECMAScript”
Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford gave the closing keynote at YUICONF 2009 last week. His talk, “The State and Future of ECMAScript,” was a detailed take on the events that Brendan Eich discussed the night before. Douglas ...
YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “The State and Future of ECMAScript”
Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford gave the closing keynote at YUICONF 2009 last week. His talk, “The State and Future of ECMAScript,” was a detailed take on the events that Brendan Eich discussed the night before. Douglas ...
Introducing the YUI 3 Gallery
Last week at YUICONF 2009, we introduced the YUI 3 Gallery, a new way to contribute to YUI 3. Within a few hours, Greg Hinch had posted the first community contribution to the Gallery. Today, less than a week later, there are 18 modules in the gallery ...
YUI Theater — Dav Glass: “Contributing to YUI”
Dav Glass (@davglass) is well known to the YUI community as the creator of the YUI Rich Text Editor, Layout Manager, Resize Utility, ImageCropper, and much more. His trove of YUI examples has helped thousands of developers fine tune their own YUI ...
YUI Theater — Brendan Eich: “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript”
Brendan Eich, JavaScript’s creator, gave the opening-night keynote at last week’s YUICONF 2009. His talk, “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript,” related some of the technical, corporate and social processes that have marked ...
YUI Theater — Luke Smith: “Events Evolved”
We wrapped up YUICONF 2009 last night, and I wanted to share with you the first video coming out of the sessions. This is from YUI engineer Luke Smith’s (@ls_n’s) presentation yesterday, “Events Evolved,” in which he dives deeply ...