videos about web development
14 Jun
Maile Ohye
Learn techniques to help bring your site more users through search engine traffic. This session focuses on how to maximize your site, your content, and your application’s exposure to search engines.
12 Jun
Mads Ager
V8 is Google’s high-performance JavaScript engine used in Google Chrome. V8 is optimized for well-designed object-oriented applications that make heavy use of objects, function calls, and property access. This talk will provide an overview of the internals of V8 and dive into the advanced virtual-machine technology used. Specifically, details of the use of hidden classes, inline caching, precise generational garbage collection, and snapshotting will be presented. The final part of the talk will discuss initiatives that will propel V8 to the next performance level.
12 Jun
Steve Souders
Steve is the author of High Performance Web Sites and the creator of YSlow. In this talk, he presents some of the best practices from his next book, including optimizing CSS selectors, flushing the document early, and discovering why 15% of users don’t get compressed responses.
12 Jun
Overview
Ben Lisbakken
In this session, learn advanced Javascript, why App Engine is so easy to develop on, protecting from XSRF vulnerabilities, cutting the load time of your app in half, and hear about general client-side web app techniques. These lessons are taught in the context of the design and development of the AJAX API Playground (http://code.google.com/apis/ajax/playgr ound/), a tool which can help developers learn about and experiment with many of Google’s APIs.
12 Jun
Jon Kragh
Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the code behind Vast Rank’s “Ranking Map” that provides contextual College Rankings based on what a user has in view on his or her Map. Code examples will be shown utilizing the Google Maps API, the Google Maps Marker Manager, the Google Client Geocoder, and the Google Client Location information exposed by the AJAX API loader. The session will end by discussing future plans to incorporate additional Google API’s including the Translation API to translate international content, the Languages API to utilize jQuery, and the Google AJAX Search API to improve the user’s search experience.
12 Jun
Drugs.com provides free, accurate and independent advice on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines & natural products. Last week, Drugs.com launched My Medication Record, a new app on My Yahoo! powered by Drugs.com Mednotes. Special guest Alison Rhodes, the Safety Mom, provides an overview of the app
12 Jun
Mint.com, the leading online personal finance management website, recently developed an open app for My Yahoo!. Built on the Yahoo! Application Platform, Mint.com Personal Finance provides My Yahoo! users with a secure view into their financial essentials. Mint’s VP of Products, Aaron Forth, provides an overview of Mint and their new app on My Yahoo!
12 Jun
kaChing provides a realistic online trading environment that allows community members to manage a virtual portfolio, compete with friends, and follow some of the world’s smartest investors. Founder Dan Carroll provides an overview of the new kaChing app on My Yahoo!
7 Jun
Using Firebug for CSS from kristarella on Vimeo.
This is a demonstration of how to use Firebug, a Firefox addon, to investigate CSS.
It was done using Firefox 3.0.5 and Firebug 1.3.
7 Jun
Web Exponents: Speed Up Your JavaScript
Presented by Nicholas C. Zakas.
As an interpreted language, JavaScript is filled with hidden performance issues that conspire to slow down your code and ruin the user experience. Learn exactly what is fast, what is slow, and what you can do to squeeze that last bit of performance out of your JavaScript code. (more…)