As we get ready for YUIConf 2010 and a lot more in the coming months, here are some of the other things we've taken note of in the larger YUI world:

• YUI Theater Tops NetTuts List of Must-see F2E Podcasts: Andrew Burgess writes about YUI Theater: "It seems that as often as a few times a month, Yahoo! brings in developers on the cutting edge of web technology to keep their employees up to date. For the benefit of the rest of us, these talks are recorded and published. You’ll find well-known devs like Douglas Crockford and Nicholas Zakas, and talks on everything from performance and accessibility to JavaScript and the DOM." #
  

• DigitalInsurance.com (an @apipkin Site) Powered by YUI 3: Prolific gallery contributor Anthony Pipkin has helped produce the new DigitalInsurance.com portal, powered by YUI 3. #
  

• Progressive Enhancement Using Nothing but JS (@codepo8 on @davglass): Christian Heilmann writes on Ajaxian: "Progressive enhancement is still a confusing matter for a lot of people who are very excited about the capabilities of JavaScript in modern browser environments. It can feel anachronistic to write your solutions for a non-JS environment and then once more enhances in JavaScript. I grew up like that so for me it is a simple matter of doing the right thing but with today’s world of JavaScript libraries and out-of-the-box widgets it can seem a drag. Enter Dav Glass of the YUI team. He’s been turning the concept of progressive enhancement around in his head and as a JS lover and backend code “endurer” he set out to solve this issue once and for all in a pure JavaScript way." Check out the full article for details. #
  

• More Overlay Plugins for YUI 3 from Oliver Andrich: From Oliver's GitHub page: "Overlay Plugins is a collection of five plugins I wrote in order to learn YUI 3 plugin developement in general. Three out of five plugins more or less mimic the Overlay Extras created by Eric Ferraiuolo.... The five plugins are:

  • BaseOverlayPlugin
  • ModalOverlay
  • KeepAligned
  • HideOnEscape
  • ConstrainDimensions"

  (Original source.) #

• Reid Burke's YUI Slides for HackU at Carnegie Mellon: YUI engineer (and Yeti author) Reid Burke whipped up some slides and a YUI 3-based slideshow engine for his recent talk at Carnegie Mellon. #
  

• Devcurry on Learning JS from Crockford and Other Gurus on YUI Theater: Suprotim Agarwal writes in devcurry this morning: "In this post, I will share links of some very useful JavaScript videos and lectures delivered by JavaScript Gurus, full of information, fun watching and absolutely Free! Although the internet is full of free videos, I have chosen only a couple of them, which I found the most useful. Get ready to take notes as you learn.. Crockford’s video lectures on JavaScript – Douglas Crockford is a JavaScript architect and plays and important role in designing new features of the language. His videos are a ‘must-have’ for any JavaScript developer. YUI Theater - Provides access to free programming talks by gurus on JavaScript and web development." Suprotim goes on to list some other sources of content, including other YUI Theater titles. #