YUI Theater

Satyen Desai, creator of the YUI 3 component and widget subsystems, discusses YUI's approach to supporting the new set of web enabled devices on the market today, and how we'd like to think of them in terms of features and constraints as opposed to an isolated problem space.

Luke Smith, a YUI team engineer, delivers one of the most highly rated talks at YUIConf 2010, looking inside some of the core patterns and infrastructure pieces that lie at the heart of YUI 3.

When developing widgets, it's not how to use YQL data that comes up as a question, but rather how to access it. In this YUIConf 2010 session, YQL engineers Paul Donnelly and Nagesh Susarla review starting your query out in the YQL console, accessing YQL data via the various endpoints, and going through YQL's various authentication layers.

In this session from YUIConf 2010, TipTheWeb cofounder and YUI contributor Eric Ferraiuolo discusses the creation of a project-scale codebase using YUI 3, YUI 3 Gallery, and YQL.

Testing cross-browser web applications has been too difficult for too long: You're either manually reloading browsers or struggling with complicated automation software. In this session from YUIConf 2010, YUI engineer Reid Burke talks about how YUI's Yeti project helps to address these problems. Reid discusses when you should use automated testing for your frontend code, how Yeti works with YUI Test, how to setup cross-browser testing in minutes and how the YUI team uses Yeti to ship a better product.

Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford reflects on the life of Walt Disney, who dreamed of creating a 'City of the Future' in Florida as part of the project that became Disney World. (This is not a technical session, but rather one about big dreams and the life lessons we can draw from them.)

In this session from YUIConf 2010, Yahoo! engineer Tom Hughes-Croucher explores different coding styles for event-driven, non-blocking server-side JavaScript and which styles are most successful.

On the web as in the real world, every language is a minority language. To reach a majority of users, your software will need to support multiple languages and be adapted to the needs and expectations of different cultures. In this session from YUIConf 2010, Yahoo! internationalization architect Norbert Lindenberg discusses how to do this building on YUI 3.

Yahoo! engineering intern Tilo Mitra introduces the YUI 3 data-lifecycle toolkit, including facilities for data sources, schemas, and the new-for-3.3.0 YUI DataTable widget.

Most web application frameworks have some type of templating engine that accepts two things: (1) data, (2) template, and returns HTML to be assembled into an HTTPResponse. The promise of Node.js and YUI 3 running server-side is that a new era of frameworks is possible in which view rendering on the client and server is implemented with the same JavaScript-based code.

Node.js creator Ryan Dahl delivers one of the most technical (and amusing) talks at YUIConf 2010, diving into the details of Node.js's present state and future roadmap.

Yahoo! frontend engineer and YUI contributor Gonzalo Cordero discusses his TreeView implementation which was recently posted to the YUI 3 Gallery. This lighter incarnation of Treeview is built upon YUI 3's Parent-Child module and already boasts a feature-rich and easy-to-implement API and a robust set of events.

Anthony Pipkin (Interactive Director at The Jones Group), a prolific YUI contributor, presents the first part of a two-part series on how to move from implementing simple functionality in YUI 3 to producing modular, reusable components that leverage YUI 3's component infrastructure (including widgets and plugins).

ArenaNet engineer and YUI contributor Pat Cavit presents the second part of a two-part series on how to move from implementing simple functionality in YUI 3 to producing modular, reusable components that leverage YUI 3's component infrastructure (including widgets and plugins).

A robust loading strategy is one of the most important elements of optimization for high traffic websites. YUI 3's Loader is both powerful and elegant, and learning how to leverage it is a must for YUI developers. In this YUIConf 2010 session, Yahoo! frontend engineer and YUI contributor Caridy Patiño Mayea provides a technical overview of loading strategies employed on Yahoo! Search.