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Optimizing the order of scripts and styles

stoimen — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 07:24:30 +0000

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Learn how appropriate ordering of scripts and styles can speed up page loads.

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Even Faster Websites

stoimen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:49:42 +0000

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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.

AJAX APIs to Navigate User-Generated Content

stoimen — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 07:42:35 +0000

Overview

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.

Using Firebug for CSS

stoimen — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 06:44:05 +0000

Using Firebug for CSS from kristarella on Vimeo.

Overview

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.

Debugging and Testing the Web with Firebug

Charles McCaffieNevile: “Opera Dragonfly”

stoimen — Wed, 27 May 2009 13:35:55 +0000

Charles McCaffieNevile: "Opera Dragonfly" @ Yahoo! Video

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YDN Lightning Talks: Tom Hughes-Croucher

stoimen — Mon, 25 May 2009 14:31:30 +0000

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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.

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Todd Kloots: “Developing an Accessible Web 2.0 Widget Framework”

stoimen — Tue, 19 May 2009 06:37:05 +0000

Todd Kloots: "Developing an Accessible Web 2.0 Widget Framework" @ Yahoo! Video

Yet another talk from Todd Kloots: Accessible widgets with YUI 3

Satyen Desai: “YUI 3: Design Goals and Architecture”

stoimen — Wed, 13 May 2009 13:21:40 +0000

Satyen Desai: “YUI 3: Design Goals and Architecture” @ Yahoo! Video

High Performance Websites: Nicole Sullivan

stoimen — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 11:34:59 +0000

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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.

Matt Sweeney: “Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time”

stoimen — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 17:40:35 +0000

Matt Sweeney: “Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time” @ Yahoo! Video

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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.

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