A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Yahoo! Sports has reached 36 million unique visitors per month and dominates the online Sports and Fantasy Sports industry worldwide. The site’s recipe for success: high quality content presented via rich and standard-compliant interfaces. The Y!...
Congratulations to Andrew Bialecki ( @abialecki on Twitter ), whose Scriptaculous-inspired Effects module won the YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010 . Andrew, who lives in the D.C. area, will be attending JSConf 2010 next month with a complimentary ticket...
Growing up in the heart of Silicon Valley, one could argue that Sadaf Shahsahebi was always destined to work with technology. Her father brought home her first computer when she was 7 and by middle school she was already programming in Pascal at...
The women of the Yahoo! Finance frontend engineering team are some of the most talented engineers I have ever had the privilege to work with. Their passion for best practices, accessibility and the end user make building the world's biggest and best...
Forms have been a staple on web sites for a very long time. In the early days, they were quite simple: the user entered values and then waited while the server processed the values or spit back errors. The rise of Web 2.0 has significantly improved...
Some of the most interesting YUI community work to date has been done recently as part of the YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010 ; I surveyed some of the entrants on Friday and a few more have come in this weekend, including a Gallery version of Matt...
Every March, users all around the world flock to Yahoo! Fantasy Sports to play our NCAA Tournament bracket game, " Tourney Pick'Em ." It's one of our most popular games. In many ways, it's also one of our simplest. Just fill out your bracket by...
The YUI 3 Gallery Contest 2010 is well underway, and with a full weekend left for submissions I wanted to share with you what's come in so far. These are all the brand new modules submitted by what I believe are eligible contest participants since...
As usual, it is developers on the YUI forums who come up with the most interesting questions (tip: this makes the forums a good place to hang around). Recently, someone asked the following: Using YUI 2 DataTable , could you nest a child table to...
Nate Cavanaugh and Eduardo Lundgren of Liferay have spent the last six months building out a new widget library, AlloyUI , based on YUI 3 . Nate wrote about the project recently on his Liferay blog . AlloyUI is available as a preview release today...