videos about web development
14 Apr
This video lecture is intended for font end, JavaScript developers who want to improve their code quality.
The author speaks about the JavaScript programming language. The features of the language, the similarity with functional languages.
Douglas Crockford is a JavaScript architect in Yahoo!. See more on wikipedia.
14 Apr
This video lecture is intended for font end, JavaScript developers who want to improve their code quality.
The author speaks about the JavaScript programming language. The features of the language, the similarity with functional languages.
Douglas Crockford is a JavaScript architect in Yahoo!. See more on wikipedia.
12 Apr
This video lecture, transcripted by, Eric Miraglia helps web developers to understand the meaning of frontend development.
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.
Eric Miraglia, learn more about the author here.
Nate Koechley, or see more in LinkedIn.
12 Apr
12 Apr
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 …
12 Apr
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.
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.
Douglas Crockford is a JavaScript architect in Yahoo!. See more on wikipedia.
12 Apr
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
12 Apr
12 Apr
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
12 Apr
A very interesting video lecture describing the main techniques to improve your site load time, with advices how to find a workaround for the script loading process as well as many other priceless notes.
The Google Tech Talks are really an interesting place to find any kind of tech guru advice, be sure I’m gonna check on this.
You can find all the slides on http://stevesouders.com/docs/sxsw-20090314.ppt
Steve Souders – a Google web performance guru – http://stevesouders.com/