May 26, 2007

Grady Booch: the Beauty of Software

Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow and one of the co-creators of UML. In this talk, he discusses the complex matrix of decisions and processes, both intentional and unintentional, that lead to the software designs and architectures upon which we increasingly rely in everyday life. This is a version of a talk originally given to the British Computer Society in honor of Alan Turing.

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duration: 56 minutes

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May 24, 2007

Nicholas Zakas on Maintainable Code

Nicholas Zakas is an engineer on the team that brings you My Yahoo!, one of the most popular personalized portals on the web. In this talk, Zakas focuses on some fundamental concepts in the world of frontend engineering with an eye toward making code more maintainable.

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duration: 42 minutes

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May 17, 2007

Douglas Crockford on Coding Process

Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provided the anchoring keynote for Yahoo!'s annual internal web-development conference in March, 2007. The subject of the talk is "Quality" — the processes by which we engineer quality into our software and, of course, the processes by which we often fail to do so.

• Part 1: 31 minutes | M4V download
• Part 2: 31 minutes | M4V download


• Part 3: 29 minutes | M4V download


• Part 4: 20 minutes | M4V download
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May 16, 2007

Douglas Crockford on Code Quality

Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provided the anchoring keynote for Yahoo!'s annual internal web-development conference in March, 2007. The subject of the talk is "Quality" — the processes by which we engineer quality into our software and, of course, the processes by which we often fail to do so.

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duration: 48:23

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May 12, 2007

A Conversation with David Weinberger

Author David Weinberger speaks with Yahoo!'s Bradley Horowitz about the nature of our evolving relationship to information — a relationship that is at the heart of the growing network of web-services-dependent applications on the web.

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duration: 55 minutes

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May 4, 2007

Ryan Kennedy showcases Y! Mail API

Ryan Kennedy demonstrates the new Yahoo! Mail Web Service APIs. He shows how you can build applications to perform tasks such as listing messages, displaying folders, and composing and sending messages.

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