A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
Dragos Manolescu from Microsoft Live Labs and Joe Yoder from The Refactory are organizing a pattern-mining workshop at TOOLS 2008 Europe , July 5-6 (dates still to be confirmed) in Zurich, Switzerland. I've agreed to be on the program committee to...
For the past year and a half, I've been working on the My Yahoo! team to create the next generation of the most popular personalized homepage on the Web. There have been a lot of challenges along the way. We created complex interactions using...
Frequent YUIBlog contributor Douglas Crockford gave a keynote at the AjaxWorld East 2008 conference in New York City last week. As ever, Douglas was pulling no punches — his title: "Can We Fix the Web?" The browser, Douglas says, was behind the...
The YUI team released version 2.5.1 today and it's available for download from SourceForge . This is a general patch release with 67 issues addressed throughout the library. 2.5.1 improves support for developers running YUI in Adobe's AIR...
Just a brief in the wild update this morning as we work on an upcoming bug fix release to follow up on YUI 2.5.0. Some fun and interesting links to share: More support for YUI on .Net : We wrote in our last "In the Wild" about Luke Foust looking for...
YUI is designed to be flexible so it can work in all sorts of environments. Sometimes we start from scratch, both on the client side and the server side, and we might get a little disoriented with so many possibilities. PHP or Rails? JSON or XML? In...
It's been an active several weeks in the YUI world, both here at Yahoo! and in the wild — most prominently, YUI 2.5.0 is out , and we've seen a lot of activity around the new components . Here is some of the news that's caught our eye of late: Dan...
At the YUI 2nd Birthday Party last night in Sunnyvale, we acknowledged several members of the YUI Community who, through their work on the community forums or elsewhere, have made outsized contributions to the YUI project by assisting fellow...
Yahoo UK technical evangelist Christian Heilmann made his way to Leeds last week to give a talk on YUI for the GeekUp folks. The Northcast web podcast team has video of that talk online if you'd like to take a look. They did a fantastic job with...
Adobe released AIR 1.0 today — great news for web application authors everywhere who now have one more compelling platform on which to deliver their products, and a platform that extends their reach into desktop space. As you'd expect from AIR,...