YUI Theater
Summary: YUI Theater publishes video from events taking place at Yahoo! that center around the discipline of web development and frontend engineering. These events run the gamut from technical explorations of specific techniques or programming languages to broader philosophical pieces on the nature of the web as a medium for deploying interactive applications. With offices located throughout the world, and with thousands of engineers, Yahoo! is a center for innovation and exploration in the world of web design and development. YUI Theater aims to share with you the rich conversations taking place within Yahoo! and beyond as the Web evolves through its second decade.
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- Artist: ericmiraglia@yahoo.com
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Podcasts:
Matt Snider, the lead frontend engineer for Mint.com (recently acquired by Intuit), contributed the YUI Storage Utility in the 2.8.0 release. In this session, he provides an overview of the Storage Utility's features and the nuances of the various storage backends.
Brendan Eich, the creator of the world's most popular programming language, talks about the struggle over the ES4 proposal and how it resulted in a specific set of proposals for ES5.
YUI engineer Dav Glass introduces you to the YUI Gallery and steps through the process of making contributions to the YUI project.
YUI engineer Luke Smith provides a deep introduction to the YUI 3 event system including its support for DOM events, event delegation, synthetic events, and custom events.
Brad Neuberg of Google provides a wide-ranging introduction to HTML5 as it's being implemented in modern browsers, including features such as SVG/Canvas, the video tag, database storage, app-cache, and more.
Andreas Bovens and David Storey from browsermaker Opera Software talk about the Opera browser, reviewing key points that developers should be aware of as they work to support Opera on their sites.
Yahoo! home page engineer Nicholas Zakas, author of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers, discusses frontend architecture for complex, modular web applications with significant JavaScript elements.
Isaac Schlueter and Matt Hackett show a proof-of-concept in which a multi-player, web-based tic-tac-toe game is created using server-side JavaScript.
Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath and Scott Chacon of GitHub discuss the distinguishing characteristics of Git as a source control tool and how GitHub empowers social coding in compelling new ways.
Yahoo! JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford tells the story of how JSON was discovered and how it became a major standard for describing data.
Yahoo! Developer Network technologist Jonathan LeBlanc provides an introduction to the Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) and demonstrates its use with YUI.
YUI Engineer Todd Kloots discusses the development of accessibility features in the YUI 3 codeline.
YUI Sr. Engineer Satyen Desai talks about the design goals and architecture of the forthcoming YUI 3 release.
PPK of Quirksmode talks about his recent research on browser events across both desktop and mobile browsers.
Senior YUI engineer Jenny Donnelly provides an overview of how to use YUI in rapid prototyping situations.
