Overview

This video lecture, transcripted by, Eric Miraglia helps web developers to understand the meaning of frontend development.

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Another way to think about it is that frontend engineers tell browsers what to do. We’d all love it if that were easier, but there’s such a diversity of browsers, and browser capabilities, that figuring out how to instruct them to do what we want, is our job. An even simpler answer might be to say we’re responsible for “view source”. So, regardless of how your organization or your team is structured, the frontend engineer is responsible for everything that gets sent over the wire to the user’s browser. So if you “view source” on any page, everything you see there is the result of decisions made by frontend engineers.

About the author

Eric Miraglia, learn more about the author here.

About the lector

Nate Koechley, or see more in LinkedIn.

Very good and pretty short tutorial about how to use on it’s basics the Zend_Db module. For everyone starting with Zend Framework it will be interesting to know how to connect and use a database in his application.

This kind of short tutorials are very usefull and sometimes are more usefull than a long detailed tutorials or documentation pages. This gives a very quick start with Zend_Db, than anyone can make it’s own researches into the docs.

Highly recommended!

Overview

As mentioned in YDN Theater:

Andy Hunt from Pragmatic Programmers tells us about his next experiments in becoming a better programmer. His latest work isn’t about installing a better IDE or using a new programming language. Instead, Andy is tuning his brain. Andy has some great advice to improve your Wetware, and suggests that it’s the most important thing of all to tweak.

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John Resig speaks about the new coming browsers on the market, Google Chrome, Opera 10, Firefox 3.1, Safari 4 and of course Internet Explorer 8. What’s new there, what is process per tab and shared memory in browsers. What’s a private browsing, and much more …

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Intended Audience

This video helps to advanced and begginers to understand the AJAX principles, not only using a copy/paste chunks of code. How to estimate performance of an AJAX applications, as well as design the performance from the very beggining of application’s development.

Overview

Douglas Crockford speaks about the differences between browsers, the DOM problem. How to design the performance, and how to test it. It’s better to test on different (slow) machines, which will help to estimate the application better.

Definitions

1. YSlow – YSlow analyzes web pages and tells you why they’re slow based on the rules for high performance web sites. YSlow is a Firefox add-on integrated with the popular Firebug web development tool.
2. Code convention – as Douglas Crockford recommends, and I completely agree there is a JS convention and you can find it here.

About the author

Douglas Crockford is a JavaScript architect in Yahoo!. See more on wikipedia.

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As mentioned in YDN Theater:

Derek Gottfrid is a Senior Software Architect at The New York Times. He has been involved in building many key parts of the nytimes.com infrastructure, including search, web serving, e-mail distribution, and platform development. Derek has led efforts to improve the use of open source software within the Times and is responsible for the open source project dbslayeropen.nytimes.com. Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist Tom Hughes-Croucher talked with Derek to learn on cloud computing and the NYTimes.com efforts: —a database connection pooling server. He also blogs regularly about his open source work at

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Gopal Venkatesan was the first frontend engineer hired by Yahoo! India, and he remains at the core of the f2e community in Yahoo!’s Bangalore office