Yahoo! User Interface Blog (YUIBlog) » YUI Theater http://www.yuiblog.com/blog The official blog of the YUI Project. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:41:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 YUI Theater — Satyen Desai: “A Widget Walkthrough” http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/06/video-desai-yuiconf2009/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/06/video-desai-yuiconf2009/#comments Fri, 06 Nov 2009 20:41:53 +0000 Eric Miraglia http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/?p=821 YUI engineer Satyen Desai at YUICONF 2009, held at the Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale; October 28, 2009.

Satyen Desai (@dezziness) leads development of the YUI 3 widget infrastructure, a system that is currently in beta and due for its first production-quality release in Q1 2010. At YUICONF 2009, Satyen provided a deep-dive on this emerging foundation in his session, “A Widget Walkthrough.” If you’re considering the development of YUI 3-based widgets to share on the new YUI 3 Gallery, or if you simply want to understand more deeply the inner workings of YUI 3 visual components, Satyen’s talk is a fantastic place to start. (Note: Satyen has an earlier YUI Theater session on the YUI 3 architecture that is also a must-see for serious YUI 3 developers.)

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Chad Auld (@chadauld) is a Yahoo! engineer best known for his work on MiaCMS and Sideline. Chad recently drove the open-source release of YUI’s PHP Loader (taking over from original developer Adam Moore [@admo]), and he came to YUICONF 2009 last week to talk about the project and provide an introduction to its core features. PHP Loader provides a generic, flexible loading mechanism for modular JavaScript/CSS projects, and while it ships with YUI 2 and YUI 3 metadata it can be used for any frontend project written in PHP. Chad’s talk gave the audience a unique opportunity to hear about this utility directly from its chief coder.

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Matt Snider is the lead fronted engineer (and employee #1) at Mint.com, the popular personal-finance site that was recently acquired by Intuit. Matt has been a longtime user of YUI at Mint, and he’s documented his own additions to YUI extensively over the years on his blog. This year, Matt deepened his work with the library by authoring a major new component: the YUI 2.8.0 Storage Utility. Storage provides an HTML 5-like API for client-side storage, using native HTML 5 engines where available and falling back to SWF and Gears as alternatives when a native engine isn’t available.

Matt came to YUICONF 2009 last week to share his work with attendees in a session entitled “Introducing the YUI 2.8.0 Storage Utility.” It’s a great talk, and one you’ll want to watch if you’re thinking of adding client-side storage to your project.

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]]> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/05/video-snider-yuiconf2009/feed/ 0 YUI Theater — Ron Adams: “Automated Integration Testing with YUI Test, Selenium and Hudson” http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/05/video-adams-yuiconf2009/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/05/video-adams-yuiconf2009/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:49:26 +0000 Eric Miraglia http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/?p=810 Yahoo engineer Ron Adams at YUICONF 2009, held at the Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale; October 28, 2009.

Ron Adams is a Yahoo! engineer in Southern California who has worked on a variety of Yahoo!’s media products including OMG and who now works for Yahoo! Sports. Ron has been working with colleagues in QA to automate the exercise of JavaScript unit tests, and his YUICONF 2009 session was entitled “Automated Integration Testing with YUI Test, Selenium and Hudson.” As the title suggests, he outlines the process he’s developed using YUI Test for JavaScript unit tests, Hudson as a CI/build tool for tracking and monitoring results, and Selenium as the tool to exercise the JS unit tests in the browser.

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Eric Ferraiuolo (@ericf) of Boston-area startup Oddnut Software made the trip to YUICONF 2009 last week to give a talk on the deployment of YUI 3-based applications in the real world. The talk presents a lot of wisdom Eric and his team have acquired since beginning to build on YUI 3 about a year ago, and it was one of the best-received talks at the conference.

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]]> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/05/video-ericf-yuiconf2009/feed/ 3 YUI Theater — Stephen Woods: “Creating Beautiful Documentation with YUI Doc” http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/04/video-woods-yuconf2009/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/04/video-woods-yuconf2009/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 22:52:06 +0000 Eric Miraglia http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/?p=797 Yahoo engineer Stephen Woods at YUICONF 2009, held at the Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale; October 28, 2009.

Stephen Woods (@ysaw) introduced YUICONF 2009 attendees last week to the inner workings of YUI’s documentation tool, YUI Doc, written by YUI architect Adam Moore. If you’re interested in how YUI Doc can help you generate thorough, always-up-to-date API docs for your projects, this is a session you’ll want to watch. Stephen is a platform engineer at Yahoo! working on systems that are integral to the new Yahoo! home page. Thanks to Stephen for the fantastic talk and for letting us share it with you here.

Note: About 18 minutes into Stephen’s session, someone wearing a bear costume walked into the presentation room — off camera, but clear to everyone in the room (see picture at right). Stephen rightly notes that his reaction was more justified than it will seem from just watching the video.

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]]> http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/04/video-woods-yuconf2009/feed/ 2 YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: “The State and Future of ECMAScript” http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/04/video-crockford-state/ http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/2009/11/04/video-crockford-state/#comments Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:38:20 +0000 Eric Miraglia http://www.yuiblog.com/blog/?p=729 Douglas Crockford of Yahoo! at YUICONF 2009, held at the Yahoo! HQ in Sunnyvale; October 28, 2009.

Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford gave the closing keynote at YUICONF 2009 last week. His talk, “The State and Future of ECMAScript,” was a detailed take on the events that Brendan Eich discussed the night before. Douglas addresses the current ECMAScript 5 proposals (coming up for vote at ECMA in December), details some of the remaining sticking points, and then goes on to distill some of the lessons learned in the course of the ECMA 4/3.1/5 process and what they tell us about the process of creating standards. As Brendan did the night before, Douglas looks ahead to the version of ECMAScript that will follow the current proposal.

Where Brendan compared the recent ECMA journey to Peter Jackson’s The Lord of the Rings (specifically, the fellowship of the ring), Douglas turns to Sidney Lumet’s 12 Angry Men for his metaphor. If you’re keeping track, Douglas is Gandalf in the first analogy and Peter Fonda in the second; Brendan is Frodo in the first and Juror #3 in the second.

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Dav Glass (@davglass) is well known to the YUI community as the creator of the YUI Rich Text Editor, Layout Manager, Resize Utility, ImageCropper, and much more. His trove of YUI examples has helped thousands of developers fine tune their own YUI implementations.

Dav’s focus lately has been on YUILibrary.com, our community platform. YUILibrary.com includes our project tracking, bug repositories, and forums (documentation and examples are still hosted by our friends at the Yahoo! Developer Network). Last week, we debuted another facet of YUILibrary.com: the YUI 3 Gallery. Dav covers a wide range of developer/community issues in his YUICONF 2009 session, “Contributing to YUI,” charting the progress we’ve made in the past year opening the project up to contributions and in making YUI 3 as extensible as possible.

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Brendan Eich, JavaScript’s creator, gave the opening-night keynote at last week’s YUICONF 2009. His talk, “ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript,” related some of the technical, corporate and social processes that have marked the recent history of the language. It’s a fascinating story. As the next release of ECMAScript (now ECMAScript 5.0) comes up for a vote in December, there remains some dissent, with IBM still indicating discomfort. But the prospect of ECMAScript moving ahead to a new version looks increasingly plausible. Brendan’s perspective on this is both strikingly open and deeply committed. Our thanks to him for the talk and for allowing us to share it here.

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We wrapped up YUICONF 2009 last night, and I wanted to share with you the first video coming out of the sessions. This is from YUI engineer Luke Smith’s (@ls_n’s) presentation yesterday, “Events Evolved,” in which he dives deeply into the YUI 3 Event system (created by Adam Moore, one of YUI’s architects). YUI 3’s Event module is one of the strengths of the library, and Luke’s talk is the best job we’ve done so far of talking about its best qualities. This is must-see-tv for YUIers.

More video from YUICONF will be on YUI Theater in the coming weeks; I hope you enjoy this first installment.

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