About the author: Stefan Klopp is the Director of Development for ExpressITech , the parent company of Car Rental Express . Stefan has been developing highly usable web solutions for the car rental industry in various roles over the last 6 years. He...

What is Lamplight? Lamplight is a database for charities and voluntary groups (that's non-profits) in the UK. It helps our customers keep their data efficiently, demonstrate the impact they have on the people they work with, and streamline...

DuckDuckGo is a search engine that uses YUI extensively. Here's what it uses in particular: ImageLoader . Matt Mlinac's YUI 2 ImageLoader was the first thing I implemented and what originally hooked me on YUI for this project. DuckDuckGo has...

Fast and fun – that was the user requirement for the new Assembla.com Agile Planner – an AJAX interface for adding development tasks, building story/feature outlines, and scheduling them into releases. We were lucky to have YUI 3 to make it fast and...

Cory Mintz from Phanfare wrote in last week to tell us about their recent product launch, which is heavily based on YUI 2.8.0. We just released our new web organizer yesterday... It is a full photo and video organizer built as a web application,...

Here at Edmunds ( Edmunds.com ) we just launched a redesign of Inside Line (InsideLine.com) , our automotive enthusiast web site, and we are using the YUI JavaScript library extensively. Some of the YUI utilities & widgets used on Inside Line:...

About Pattern Insight Pattern Insight provides powerful solutions to index, search, and analyze semi-structured data. By "semi-structured" we mean any type of system data — code, logs, scripts, and more. Currently we have two major software suites:...

Here at OCLC — a worldwide non-profit library cooperative that provides web visibility for library catalogues around the world — we initially came across YUI while discussing grid frameworks early in 2008. Later that year the subject of JavaScript...

Tell us about your product. timr is a very easy to use time-tracking application which offers a web application as well as native clients for mobile phones. This combination allows our users to easily track their times in the office and on the go....

Please tell us a little about your project. http://shortreckonings.com is a free YUI-based Web tool that helps tracking and evening out group expenses. Its light user interface is ideal for coworkers, roommates, travel buddies or family members....

Members of the Squarespace team: (From left to right) Paolo DeDios, Erica Reitman, Dane Atkinson, Jonathan Snook, Anthony Casalena, Tyler Thompson, Davin Chew, Rolando Berrios. Can you provide a background of projects where you've used YUI? What...

Special invite to Lunch's private beta for YUIBlog readers: Go to http://www.lunch.com . On the right-hand side of the screen in the Get an Invite! box is a "Have an invite code?" message. Click on the click here link. Enter the Invite Code YUIBlog...

What is Confirmit? Tell us a little bit about the company. Confirmit has been around since 1996, and we are now over 250 employees globally, with offices in Guildford, London, Oslo, New York, San Francisco, Moscow and Yaroslavl. Confirmit targets...

Tell us a little bit about DocLanding — what are the central problems you solve for your users? DocLanding is an on-demand document management solution that delivers enterprise class document management functionality for a fraction of the costs of...

What got you interested in building a web interface to iTunes? Or is that a dumb question? (No, not a dumb question :)) I've got a sizable song collection in my iTunes. An app for providing myself with web access seemed like a nice thing to have,...

Notifu is a "group messaging service." How does Notifu go beyond traditional messaging services like email, IM, and SMS? There are four key differences from traditional email, IM, and SMS... Integration : Notifu allows you to send the same message...

Tell us a little bit about SDL. What are your core lines of business? SDL is the world leader in Global Information Management. We provide desktop and enterprise software and localization services to help corporations create and maintain all...

1. What is Ylastic, and what interested you in creating a unified interface into Amazon's cloud computing services? Ylastic is a single unified user interface to the the AWS cloud computing environment — S3, EC2, SQS and SimpleDB. We were initially...

Jim Morris, VP for the Buzillions Platform at PowerReviews, wrote in to tell us that Buzillions launched a major redesign recently, including a comprehensive update to YUI 2.6.0. A dozen YUI components are exercised throughout the site. We first...

Tell us a little bit about your site redesign for Pulte Homes . The new Pulte Homes, Inc. web redesign was launched in May 2008 to help consumers find homes using a rich and interactive map-based search tool, learn about available homes using...

How does MiaCMS differentiate itself from other CMS projects out there? Why would someone choose MiaCMS over Drupal or Joomla or other well-known apps in this space? Yes, there are quite a few content management systems to compete with. Luckily we...

Matt, tell us a little bit about Mint's history and the problem space you're addressing with your product. Mint was founded in 2006 by Aaron Patzer, after he realized that software could do far more than had been previously achieved to help people...

Q: Please tell us a bit about your company, TripIt A: Over the past year or so I have been working on building TripIt, after a six-year hiatus from web application development. TripIt is a personal travel assistant that helps you organize your...

Tell us a little bit about Nestoria's product — what problems are you solving for your users? We're a search engine for property in Spain and the UK ( http://www.nestoria.es , http://www.nestoria.co.uk ). We focus on one thing and one thing only —...

From a frontend engineering perspective, what are the core challenges you face in your work on Gaia Online? Gaia is very graphically oriented by comparison to the typical web site, with a focus on avatars and a virtual world experience. As a result,...

Tell us a little bit about your background in frontend engineering. When did you get started? What kinds of projects have you been involved with? My Dad brought home a Commodore 128D when I was about 9 years old. He showed me how to write BASIC...

Tell us a little bit about Wikia. What point are you at in the evolution of your product and your company? What is its relationship to Wikipedia? We like to say that Wikia and Wikipedia have the same parents, but that otherwise we're not related. We...

How has the nature of your web-development work for clients changed over the past couple of years, with the move toward more richness and client-side complexity? One of AA|RF's greatest strengths as an agency is in creating compelling user...

What is your background in frontend engineering? I started programming when I was 10, writing a few games in BASIC on my Commodore 64k. When I bought my first PC I started learning Pascal, C/C++ and assembly language. I was on the Polish demo scene,...

At what point did you begin evolving your application to use a rich interface? What were the original tools/libraries you used? The company from day one started as a Web 2.0-focused project, but we didn't have the engineering resources to create...

SmugMug is a four-year-old service that provides online photosharing to high-end, high-touch customers — professional and avocational photographers who care deeply about the presentation of their photographic assets. Headquartered in Mountain View,...