A Historical Archive (2006-2014)
The friendly folks at Konfabulator (the engine behind Yahoo! Widgets) are hosting their first ever Konfabulator Developer Day on Thursday, June 7, in Sunnyvale. See the Developer Day blog post on the Yahoo! Widgets Blog for more on this event and...
Software development has been, is, and I believe will remain fundamentally very hard. We have been able to build things we could not have conceived of some years ago because we have improved in our practices and our processes and our tools and in...
We were fortunate in 2006 to convince Nicholas Zakas to come to Yahoo to be part of the My Yahoo! team (which with Nicholas's help has rolled out several important releases recently). We knew Nicholas from his work on Professional Ajax and...
Based on positive feedback to last week's post (thanks!), I'm going to keep writing these In the Wild columns. There's tons of great YUI content created by the community but it can be time consuming to find, and so I hope this roundup continues to...
"I'm going to cover the whole range of human emotion, from the heights of creative ecstasy all the way down to the depths of technical despair. And, as you'd expect, we're going to start with the latter." That's how Douglas Crockford began his talk...
On his Muffin Research Labs site Stuart Colville shows how to re-write HTTP request so you can quickly toggle between localhost and online resources . He uses the "fantastically useful cross-platform http debugging proxy" Charles to do the magic:...
YUI Theater 's newest video is a 27 minute Introduction to Screen Readers by Victor Tsaran , an engineer here at Yahoo! and our Program Manager for Accessibility. He begins by showing us the core functionality of screen readers and how they interact...
In case you haven't heard yet, Yahoo!'s Hack Day is coming to Europe. I can hardly do more justice to this event than Tom Coates has done on his blog , but here are some important details: Are you invited? Naturally. Where is it **?** Alexandra...
This is a little bit off our usual beat here on YUIBlog, but when David Weinberger (author of Small Pieces Loosely Joined and one of the most consistently engaging voices in the technosphere) stops by Yahoo! to talk about the world, its people, and...
One core advantage of the YUI Fonts foundation ( Reset , Fonts , Grids ) created by YUI engineer Nate Koechley is that it allows you to define fonts in relative terms. That means (even in IE) that fonts zoom or shrink in size as the user...