videos about web development
25 Jun
Learn how appropriate ordering of scripts and styles can speed up page loads.
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
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.
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.
27 May
25 May
In our latest YDN Lightning Talk, we have a seat with Tom Hughes-Croucher, an evangelist for Yahoo! developer tools. Tom has worked on front-end engineering for Yahoo! and a number of Accessibility standards for recognized standards bodies such as the World Wide Web consortium and the British Standards Institute. Tom shares about some developer tools he likes to use, including YQL.
19 May
13 May
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.
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.