YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “Principles of Security” (60 min.)

April 9, 2012 at 3:08 pm by Ryan Grove | In Development, YUI Theater | 2 Comments

In this talk from the March 5, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Douglas Crockford outlines the basic principles of designing secure software, with a focus on web applications. With his usual sardonic wit, he starts at the beginning (almost literally — with the invention of language itself) and makes a strong case for designing secure software based on fundamental principles rather than specific techniques, tricks, or hacks.

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YUI Theater — Nicholas Zakas: “Progressive Enhancement 2.0″ (50 min.)

March 19, 2012 at 10:34 am by Ryan Grove | In Development, YUI Theater | No Comments

Nicholas Zakas (@slicknet), former Yahoo! engineer and author of several books about JavaScript, joined us at the March 5th, 2012 BayJax event to share his vision of progressive enhancement and how web pages don’t have to look the same in every browser. What does Nicholas’s mother (@slicknetsmom) have to do with this? Watch the video to find out!

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YUI Theater — Scott Schiller: “Web Audio: HTML5 + Flash (in a tree)” (26 min.)

February 24, 2012 at 12:44 pm by Ryan Grove | In Development, YUI Theater | No Comments

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer and SoundManager developer Scott Schiller (@schill) uncovered HTML5 audio’s dark and dirty secrets, and explained why he thinks both HTML5 audio and Flash audio have their place. Then he wowed the audience with a couple of spectacular live demos that you won’t want to miss.

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YUI Theater — Stephen Woods: “Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces” (24 min.)

February 23, 2012 at 11:16 am by Ryan Grove | In Development, YUI Theater | 10 Comments

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Stephen Woods (@ysaw) shared his hard-won advice for building responsive touch-based interfaces using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. He also revealed how Star Trek: The Next Generation predicted the need for instant user feedback in a touch-based UI and how Tivo’s slow UI was made bearable by a simple “bloop” sound.

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YUI Theater — Eric Gelinas: “Geo Interfaces for Actual Humans” (15 min.)

February 22, 2012 at 10:51 am by Ryan Grove | In Development, YUI Theater | No Comments

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Eric Gelinas (@standardpixel) spoke about the challenges involved in building interfaces for geotagging and mapping. Using examples from Flickr and other sites, he covered the dos and don’ts of building geo interfaces and shared what he learned while building Flickr’s geotagging UI.

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YUI Theater — Gonzalo Cordero: “Yahoo! Local Mobile Case Study” (33 min.)

February 6, 2012 at 4:22 pm by Ryan Grove | In Development, YUI Theater | 2 Comments

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Yahoo! frontend engineer Gonzalo Cordero (@goonieiam) reveals how Yahoo! Local used YUI 3 to develop their iOS app using a native Objective-C wrapper with HTML5 and YUI running in a UIWebView. He argues that there’s no such thing as a desktop web and a mobile web — there’s just “the web”, and YUI is the perfect framework for people who want to write web apps that run everywhere.

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YUI Theater — Derek Gathright: “Why YUI?” (27 min.)

January 30, 2012 at 2:00 pm by Ryan Grove | In Development, YUI Theater | No Comments

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer and former jQuery user Derek Gathright (@derek) explains why you should consider using YUI to build your web apps. In particular, he stresses how YUI is designed to serve as an extensible set of building blocks (like Legos) and not just a collection of ready-to-use components (like pre-molded plastic toy cars).

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