YUI Theater – Nate Koechley: “Professional Frontend Engineering”

March 18, 2009 at 9:35 am by Eric Miraglia | In Development, YUI Theater | 7 Comments

Nate Koechley, one of Yahoo's original frontend engineers

Nate Koechley, one of the first frontened engineers hired at Yahoo, has spent the last eight years studying the discipline and curating some of the best ideas and practices to emerge from it here at Yahoo. As a member of the YUI team since its early days in 2005, he also helped shape the YUI library and authored its CSS components.

This YUI Theater entry captures one of the courses Nate has taught at Yahoo, “Professional Frontend Engineering.” It covers the foundations of the discipline, some of its core ideas, and some of of its best practices. If you are looking to reset your own assumptions about “web development” or “frontend work”, I know of no better place to start. If you have friends who are new to the discipline, or backend engineers transitioning to the frontend, this is also a fantastic resource to which you can point them.

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  1. Are these slides available anywhere?

    Comment by Pat Cavit — March 18, 2009 #

  2. This is an awesome video! I learned a lot — thanks!

    Comment by Patrick Daly — March 18, 2009 #

  3. Greate presentation!
    Thanks a lot

    Comment by Maurice Perry — March 19, 2009 #

  4. Very nice. Thanks

    Comment by Sorin Stefan — March 20, 2009 #

  5. Reducing the CSS filters to *width, _width to target IE7&6 or just IE6 is neat.

    Slides ppt would be a nice resource to have; the one with the underused HTML elements was my favorite, which I’d like to drill myself to reduce divitis and use some of the useful and specific HTML tags like CITE.

    Comment by Monty Dickerson — March 22, 2009 #

  6. Thanks alot!!

    Great presentation!

    Comment by Automated Material Handling Dude — July 20, 2009 #

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