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In this talk we explore web development and debugging strategies with Firebug. An overview of new and improved features and how to use them is presented. We wrap-up with a peek at FireUnit, a new Firebug extension by John Resig and Jan Odvarko, and it’s role in unittesting Firebug itself. Read the rest of this entry »

YQL Execute: Screencast

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The Yahoo! Query Language lets you query, filter, and join data across any web data source or service on the web. YQL treats the entire web as a source of table data, enabling developers to select * from Internet.
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All of us know how painful it is to wait – waiting in a line, waiting for a table, or waiting for a web page to load… If a business makes its customers wait too long, the customers will often leave and take their business elsewhere.

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In this session PPK will discuss some aspects of mobile browser compatibility as well as W3C Widgets, which promise to be the first open, universal standard for creating small and large applications on mobile phone.
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Web developers now have the ability to store large amounts of persistent data on the client-side, way beyond the 4K limit of cookies. Options include HTML 5 Storage, Gears, Dojo Storage, and more. Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps.

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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.