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YDN YDN Theater January 2007 Archive

YDN Theater Archive: January 2007

January 28, 2007

Renkoo visits Yahoo! Developer Network (Part II)

Joyce Park and Adam Rifkin talk to us about the technologies that power the Renkoo service. Joyce also shares her insights on the web services landscape for online consumer products and Yahoo!'s role in enabling startups to build cool tools.

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January 28, 2007

Renkoo visits Yahoo! Developer Network (Part I)

Joyce Park and Adam Rifkin show us how they used several Yahoo! technologies to build Renkoo.com

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January 28, 2007

Yahoo!'s Browser Based Authentication

Browser-Based Authentication makes it possible for web applications to use Yahoo! login data (with user permission). Dan Theurer explains what it does and how it does it in this low-fi 5 minute screencast.

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January 27, 2007

Ross Harmes on YUI for TextMate

Ross Harmes of Yahoo! Small Business demos his YUI bundle for the popular Mac OS X code editor TextMate. See the YUIBlog post on the screencast for full details.

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duration: 9 minutes

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January 27, 2007

Paul Colton — Screencast: YUI Support in the Aptana IDE

Aptana founder Paul Colton provides an overview of the Aptana IDE and its built-in support for the YUI Library; more Aptana screencasts are available on Aptana TV.

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duration: 7 minutes

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January 27, 2007

Jon Chambers — Screencast: Thinkature Co-founder on Developing with YUI

Thinkature co-founder Jon Chambers discusses the Thinkature collaborative ideation interface and how he used YUI in creating it.

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duration: 10 minutes

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January 27, 2007

Lars Knoll and George Staikos: From KHTML to Webkit

Lars Knoll and George Staikos from the KHTML project visited Yahoo! to give a talk on the history of KHTML and Konqueror and the connection between those projects and Apple’s open-source WebKit (which was built upon KHTML and announced in January of 2003 as the foundation of Apple’s Safari browser). See the accompanying YUIBlog article for more details.

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January 27, 2007

Joe Hewitt — Welcome to Firebug 1.0

Joe Hewitt is a Mozilla developer who has written software dear to the heart of all web developers, including the original Mozilla DOM Inspector. Joe's newest Mozilla tool is Firebug, an integral logging and debugging extension for Firefox that sets a new standard for its category. Joe provided a power-user tour while announcing Firebug 1.0's release on January 25, 2007, at Yahoo!. Joe is a co-founder of Parakey, Inc.

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duration: 48 minutes

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January 27, 2007

Iain Lamb — The New Hacker's Toolkit

Iain Lamb, cofounder of the Oddpost webmail startup that was acquired by Yahoo! and eventually became the basis for the all-new Yahoo! Mail, speaks at Yahoo!'s Open Hack Day on the skills needed by hackers in the new network ecosystem of mashups and web services.

Duration: 28 minutes

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January 27, 2007

Matt Sweeney — Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time

Matt Sweeney, author of YUI's Animation Utility, Dom Collection and TabView Control, spoke to hackers gathered for Yahoo!s first Open Hack Day September 29, 2006. In this talk, Matt argues for the strict separation of presentation, content and behavior, providing a historical perspective on the evolution of available tools for engineering stable, scalable, applications using semantic approaches.

Duration: 34 minutes

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January 27, 2007

Todd Kloots — The YUI Menu Control

The YUI Menu Control comprises three rich, powerful UI tools. In this 25 minute video, YUI Menu developer Todd Kloots orients you to the Menu Control's structure, design, and implementation.

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duration: 25 minutes

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January 27, 2007

Douglas Crockford — An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM

Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford discusses the nexus between JavaScript and the browser, exploring the history of the BOM and DOM APIs and their impact on frontend engineering today. This presentation is archived in three parts: