videos about web development
21 Apr
Mashups are the most interesting innovation in software development in decades. Unfortunately, the browser’s security model did not anticipate this development, so mashups are not safe if there is any confidential information in the page. Since virtually every page has at least some confidential information in it, this is a big problem. Google Gears may lead to the solution.
Speaker: Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford is the world’s foremost living authority on JavaScript. He is an architect with Yahoo’s Ajax Strike Force. He is the founder of two startups, and was Director of Technology at Lucasfilm Ltd., Director of New Media at
Paramount.
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.
17 Apr
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.
16 Apr
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.
16 Apr
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.
15 Apr
Taskfox Prototype from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
Taskfox Mouse: Iteration 0 from Aza Raskin on Vimeo.
15 Apr
Iain Lamb, one of the co-founders of the iconic Web 2.0 startup Oddpost (acquired in 2004 by Yahoo), presents at Yahoo’s Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006.
15 Apr
14 Apr
In order to reach the most people on the web, it is a good idea to distribute your information. That way you can reach all kind of specialized audiences. On the flipside you also spread yourself thin and people will miss some of the goodies you put out on the web.
… is actualy solved with YQL
14 Apr
Etsy is an online marketplace for buying & selling all things handmade. Their mission is to enable people to make a living making things, and to reconnect makers with buyers. Etsy also has a strong community of developers who can tap into their vibrant, global marketplace with the Etsy API. The Etsy API provides a range of API methods for developers to start building their own applications on top of the Etsy platform.
The conversation with Justin Sheckler and Chad Dickerson helps understand the importance of developing a good social oriented (community if you like) site with web 2.0 techniques.