videos about web development
29 Apr
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In this session PPK will discuss some aspects of mobile browser compatibility as well as W3C Widgets, which promise to be the first open, universal standard for creating small and large applications on mobile phone.
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29 Apr
Web developers now have the ability to store large amounts of persistent data on the client-side, way beyond the 4K limit of cookies. Options include HTML 5 Storage, Gears, Dojo Storage, and more. Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps.
26 Apr
23 Apr
Sadaf Shahsahebi is a front end developer at Yahoo! working on the Yahoo! Application Platform. Sadaf uses tools like YUI, YSlow, YML, and Caja to design secure, high-performance web products. In this lightning talk, Sadaf shares about her path to engineering and her technical work as a front end engineer.
23 Apr
Website performance is a growing challenge for web developers and designers. The net effect of features like rounded corners and rich Ajax integration is slower performance. At Web Directions North, performance guru and former Yahoo! engineer, Nicole Sullivan, shared some of the tools and techniques she developed and used to maximize performance for Yahoo! sites and applications.
Whether you are a designer, developer, product or project manager, this session will help you improve the performance of your sites and applications.
21 Apr
Mashups are the most interesting innovation in software development in decades. Unfortunately, the browser’s security model did not anticipate this development, so mashups are not safe if there is any confidential information in the page. Since virtually every page has at least some confidential information in it, this is a big problem. Google Gears may lead to the solution.
Speaker: Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford is the world’s foremost living authority on JavaScript. He is an architect with Yahoo’s Ajax Strike Force. He is the founder of two startups, and was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd., Director of New Media at
Paramount.
20 Apr
Matt Sweeney, Senior Engineer on the YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) team at Yahoo!, delivers a talk on best practices in frontend engineering at Yahoo!’s Developer Day/Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006. Matt explores the concepts of semantic markup and separation of content, presentation and behavior for modern web browsers, showing examples of best practices.
17 Apr
Steve Souders is Yahoo’s chief guru in the art and science of web performance and the author of the YSlow plugin for Firebug; he is the author of High Performance Web Sites, a forthcoming title from O’Reilly (bonus points if you can guess which animal O’Reilly’s editors chose for the cover of this one…). For the past three years, Steve has led a team investigating the root causes of poor page performance and applying the lessons learned to Yahoo!’s high-traffic, media-rich properties.
16 Apr
John Resig, creator of the JQuery JavaScript library and author of Pro JavaScript Techniques, is a Mozilla technologist focused on the relationship between Mozilla and the world of JavaScript libraries.
16 Apr
John Resig, creator of the JQuery JavaScript library and author of Pro JavaScript Techniques, is a Mozilla technologist focused on the relationship between Mozilla and the world of JavaScript libraries.