YUI Weekly for April 5th, 2013
Welcome to YUI Weekly, the weekly roundup of news and announcements from the YUI team and community. If you have any interesting demos or links you’d like to share, feel free to leave a comment below.
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Announcing YUI After Hours! Come on over to Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale, CA next Thursday evening where we'll be hosting an event featuring short presentations, and conversations about the latest development going on in the world of YUI. Doors open at 5pm, talks begin at 6. Head over to eventbrite.com for registration and additional details.
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In this week's release news, finishing touches are being put on the first 3.10 preview release. If you are curious what to expect, check out the dev-3.x compare view. Most notably at this point will be performance improvements in Base (PR #574), and you can get a glimpse of those effects on downstream components on this gist. YUI 3.10 is currently scheduled for release on April 16th.
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This week's Open Roundtable discussion (YouTube) featured discussion on Eventx, YUI 3.10 PR1, Y.promise and the A+ spec, next week's YUI After Hours event, DOM Futures, and pull requests.
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Discussion about memory management continued this week on yui-contrib. Thanks to Marco Asbreuk for his detailed write-up on the subject, and be sure to check out Eric Frigot's explanation between
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New and updated Gallery modules include: formmgr, layout-datatable, quickedit, treeble, and yqlmock
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In devtool news, Shifter was updated to 0.3.0 and now defaults --istanbul to true. Yogi was updated to 0.1.0 to include the latest shifter. yUglify was updated to 0.1.4 to fix colors for non-terminal environments. Upgrade with
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Links of the Week (thanks to JavaScript Weekly)