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YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Principles of Security” (60 min.)

Ryan Grove — Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:08:51 +0000

In this talk from the March 5, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Douglas Crockford outlines the basic principles of designing secure software, with a focus on web applications. With his usual sardonic wit, he starts at the beginning (almost literally — with the invention of language itself) and makes a strong case for designing secure software based on fundamental principles rather than specific techniques, tricks, or hacks.

YUI Theater — Nicholas Zakas: “Progressive Enhancement 2.0″ (50 min.)

Ryan Grove — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 17:34:33 +0000

Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet), former Yahoo! engineer and author of several books about JavaScript, joined us at the March 5th, 2012 BayJax event to share his vision of progressive enhancement and how web pages don’t have to look the same in every browser. What does Nicholas’s mother (@slicknetsmom) have to do with this? Watch the video to find out!

YUI Theater — Scott Schiller: “Web Audio: HTML5 + Flash (in a tree)” (26 min.)

Ryan Grove — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 20:44:58 +0000

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer and SoundManager developer Scott Schiller (@schill) uncovered HTML5 audio’s dark and dirty secrets, and explained why he thinks both HTML5 audio and Flash audio have their place. Then he wowed the audience with a couple of spectacular live demos that you won’t want to miss.

YUI Theater — Stephen Woods: “Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces” (24 min.)

Ryan Grove — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 19:16:21 +0000

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Stephen Woods (@ysaw) shared his hard-won advice for building responsive touch-based interfaces using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. He also revealed how Star Trek: The Next Generation predicted the need for instant user feedback in a touch-based UI and how Tivo’s slow UI was made bearable by a simple “bloop” sound.

YUI Theater — Eric Gelinas: “Geo Interfaces for Actual Humans” (15 min.)

Ryan Grove — Wed, 22 Feb 2012 18:51:50 +0000

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Eric Gelinas (@standardpixel) spoke about the challenges involved in building interfaces for geotagging and mapping. Using examples from Flickr and other sites, he covered the dos and don’ts of building geo interfaces and shared what he learned while building Flickr’s geotagging UI.

YUI Theater — Gonzalo Cordero: “Yahoo! Local Mobile Case Study” (33 min.)

Ryan Grove — Tue, 07 Feb 2012 00:22:13 +0000

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! frontend engineer Gonzalo Cordero (@goonieiam) reveals how Yahoo! Local used YUI 3 to develop their iOS app using a native Objective-C wrapper with HTML5 and YUI running in a UIWebView. He argues that there’s no such thing as a desktop web and a mobile web — there’s just “the web”, and YUI is the perfect framework for people who want to write web apps that run everywhere.

YUI Theater — Derek Gathright: “Why YUI?” (27 min.)

Ryan Grove — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 22:00:44 +0000

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer and former jQuery user Derek Gathright (@derek) explains why you should consider using YUI to build your web apps. In particular, he stresses how YUI is designed to serve as an extensible set of building blocks (like Legos) and not just a collection of ready-to-use components (like pre-molded plastic toy cars).

YUI Theater — Ryan Cannon: “There is no off-season: NFL.com’s move to YUI” (42 min.)

Ryan Grove — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 18:57:15 +0000

NFL.com’s Ryan Cannon (@rcanine) joined us at YUIConf 2011 to share the story of why NFL.com chose YUI over jQuery, how they migrated a large codebase from Prototype to YUI 3 on a tight schedule, and how they use YUI to create websites and mobile apps for one of the world’s most popular sports leagues.

YUI Theater — Paul Donnelly: “Using Yahoo! Pipes and the YQL Module” (39 min.)

Ryan Grove — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 02:02:12 +0000

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YQL engineer Paul Donnelly demonstrates the features of the Yahoo! Pipes editor and explains how you can use Pipes and YQL to power your web apps, create mashups, and more.

YUI Theater — Jeff Burtoft: “Scaling Mobile with YUI” (49 min.)

Ryan Grove — Tue, 03 Jan 2012 18:40:27 +0000

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Jeff Burtoft (@boyofgreen), Lead Frontend Engineer at USAA, shares what he’s learned about building performant and scalable cross-platform mobile web apps using YUI. In the course of the talk, Jeff reveals some of the pitfalls of dealing with device limitations — particularly when building native-wrapped web apps that run in web views — and explains how he and his team worked around them using YUI.

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YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Principles of Security” (60 min.)

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YUI Theater — Nicholas Zakas: “Progressive Enhancement 2.0″ (50 min.)

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YUI Theater — Scott Schiller: “Web Audio: HTML5 + Flash (in a tree)” (26 min.)

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YUI Theater — Stephen Woods: “Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces” (24 min.)

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YUI Theater — Eric Gelinas: “Geo Interfaces for Actual Humans” (15 min.)

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YUI Theater — Gonzalo Cordero: “Yahoo! Local Mobile Case Study” (33 min.)

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YUI Theater — Derek Gathright: “Why YUI?” (27 min.)

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YUI Theater — Ryan Cannon: “There is no off-season: NFL.com’s move to YUI” (42 min.)

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YUI Theater — Paul Donnelly: “Using Yahoo! Pipes and the YQL Module” (39 min.)

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YUI Theater — Jeff Burtoft: “Scaling Mobile with YUI” (49 min.)

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