A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
In Luke 's ( @ls_n 's)second session at YUICONF 2009 ( the first, "Events Evolved," is also available on video ), he addressed common challenges in debugging JavaScript — and some of the tools and techniques unique to doing so in YUI 3 -based...
Thank you to everyone who joined us for YUICONF 2009 ! We hosted over 200 YUI developers, held 18 outstanding technical sessions, and featured three unforgettable keynotes over two short days. Some of our favorite highlights include: Eric Miraglia...
Satyen Desai ( @dezziness ) leads development of the YUI 3 widget infrastructure , a system that is currently in beta and due for its first production-quality release in Q1 2010. At YUICONF 2009 , Satyen provided a deep-dive on this emerging...
Chad Auld ( @chadauld ) is a Yahoo! engineer best known for his work on MiaCMS and Sideline . Chad recently drove the open-source release of YUI's PHP Loader (taking over from original developer Adam Moore [ @admo ]), and he came to YUICONF 2009...
Matt Snider is the lead fronted engineer (and employee #1) at Mint.com, the popular personal-finance site that was recently acquired by Intuit. Matt has been a longtime user of YUI at Mint, and he's documented his own additions to YUI extensively...
Eric Ferraiuolo ( @ericf ) of Boston-area startup Oddnut Software made the trip to YUICONF 2009 last week to give a talk on the deployment of YUI 3-based applications in the real world. The talk presents a lot of wisdom Eric and his team have...
Ron Adams is a Yahoo! engineer in Southern California who has worked on a variety of Yahoo!'s media products including OMG and who now works for Yahoo! Sports . Ron has been working with colleagues in QA to automate the exercise of JavaScript unit...
Accordion is a visual widget that allows the expansion/collapse of grouped items containing arbitrary data. Accordion items can be added or removed dynamically, reordered via drag-and-drop, closed and set as always visible. Originally, I built the...
Stephen Woods ( @ysaw ) introduced YUICONF 2009 attendees last week to the inner workings of YUI's documentation tool, YUI Doc , written by YUI architect Adam Moore. If you're interested in how YUI Doc can help you generate thorough,...
Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford gave the closing keynote at YUICONF 2009 last week. His talk, " The State and Future of ECMAScript ," was a detailed take on the events that Brendan Eich discussed the night before . Douglas addresses...