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Very interesting video describing the events in JavaScript and how the different browsers fires them. Actually it’s very interesting the understand the different ways between handling an event in different browsers. What Peter-Paul Koch does is an extreamly deep research on js events, helping other web developers to understand the issues and advantages in that field.

YDN Lightning Talks: Sadaf Shahsahebi

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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.

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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.

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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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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.

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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.

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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.

Intended Audience

This video lecture is intended for font end, JavaScript developers who want to improve their code quality.

Overview

The author speaks about the JavaScript programming language. The features of the language, the similarity with functional languages.

Learning Objectives

  1. You’ll learn how to best use you’re JavaScript code.
  2. How to write effective programs.

Author

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