Comments on: Screencast: Ross Harmes’s YUI Bundle for Textmate

By: Screencast: Ross Harmes’s YUI Bundle for Textmate :: Tech Videos, Screencasts, Tutorials, Webinars

Tue, 05 Dec 2006 08:15:35 +0000

[…] Ross Harmes is a frontend engineer who works in the Yahoo! Small Business group. Ross recently released a YUI “bundle” for the Mac OS X code editor TextMate; the bundle provides syntax highlighting, code completion, and integrated documentation retrieval within TextMate. He stopped by the YUI team offices today to show us how it works, and he was kind enough to let us capture that information in the form of a short (~9 minute) screencast. Video is here. Tags: AJAX, Companies, Development, IDE, Javascript, MacOS, OS, Screencasts, Technologies, Textmate, Web 2.0, Web Services, Yahoo! […]

By: Art and Mary

Art and Mary — Mon, 04 Dec 2006 00:17:41 +0000

You are amazing! We are very proud.

By: Eric Miraglia

Eric Miraglia — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 17:29:07 +0000

@fly: The YUI Library is licensed under a BSD license; check out the terms of the license for guidance about how you can use it. But the bottom line is that as long as you follow the terms of the license, you can use the library freely for business or any other purpose. -Eric

By: kuniform » Blog Archive » Textmate, Bundles and the YUI Pattern Library

Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:14:03 +0000

[…] What’s more, is that Ross Harmes released a Yahoo! User Interface bundle that cuts down on all the typing needed to implement the YUI library. He has installation instructions and an overview, and the YUI blog has a screencast of it. […]

By: Jason Kunesh

Jason Kunesh — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 14:11:45 +0000

Thanks, Ross! I began using the YUI library in earnest in TextMate this week, integrating it with Rails. I was hitting the wall in terms of typing and was thinking of creating those very shortcuts. Thanks for saving me the trouble!

By: fly

fly — Sun, 03 Dec 2006 08:06:03 +0000

can i use yui in my Business project?

By: Dustin Diaz

Dustin Diaz — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 08:22:33 +0000

Way to go Ross… but you know I can’t install your bundle because I’ve already created way too many of my own YUI shortcuts. ;)

By: Ben Long

Ben Long — Sat, 02 Dec 2006 07:49:14 +0000

@Shannon

There are a couple of shorcuts that can be created to help with the typing:

yuidom -> tab = “$D = YAHOO.util.Dom;”
yuiget -> tab = “$ = $D.get”
yuievent -> tab = etc

You’re right about a lot of typing though. I use the above shortcuts exclusivly (prior to this bundle) to make YUI easier on the fingers.

It would be nice to see the bundle as ’smart’ in some fashion so it recognizes whether I have the $D defined, and then instead of dom > tab > 1 == “YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementsByClassName(’class-name’, ‘tag’, rootElement)”, it would do this: dom > tab > 1 == “$D.getElementsByClassName….”

wishful thinking, I know :D

@Ross
Thanks for the super bundle! I look forward to the updates!

By: Shannon -jj Behrens

Shannon -jj Behrens — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 22:23:04 +0000

What you did is really cool. However, I can’t help but think that the savings in typing are really caused by the fact that you have to type too much. It would be so much nicer if you could do something like Python’s:

from Yahoo.util import dom
dom.get()

and so forth. This would be a benefit to the typer as well as the reader, and remember that it’s really the reader we care about most.

Nonetheless, nice work.

By: Reza

Reza — Fri, 01 Dec 2006 19:20:42 +0000

Windows/Linux users; don’t be sad.

The (Aptana) has the almost same functionality. and even more good news is it has plugin for Eclipse. :)

See the screen casts too.