July 30, 2008

All The Code That's Fit To printf()

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 dbslayer —a database connection pooling server. He also blogs regularly about his open source work at open.nytimes.com. Yahoo! Developer Network evangelist Tom Hughes-Croucher talked with Derek to learn on cloud computing and the NYTimes.com efforts:

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July 29, 2008

OSCON - Zimbra

Open source and web technologies promise to dispatch older proprietary peers with the power of community and innovation that deliver superior features plus better economics. However, having the most innovative product won’t help if your application doesn’t also embrace incumbents and offer better overall performance too. In this session, Zimbra's Kevin Henrikson shares its experience, tips, tricks incorporating the mainstream (BlackBerry, iPhone 2, AD, Exchange) with new web technologies (REST, XMPP, MySQL, J2ME, AJAX and more) to gradually reshape the enterprise.

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July 29, 2008

Conference Conversations: David Recordon

David Recordon is Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart, the largest independent blogging company in the world. Recordon has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies such as OpenID. Tom Hughes-Croucher sits down with David and talks with him at OSCON:

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Recordon’s history with open source software and open standards stretches back to the beginning of his career, when as a sophomore in high school he volunteered his time to lead an open source message board project with over forty members worldwide. This interest led to his co-founding of a message board hosting provider that still services tens of thousands of users around the world, and that he has since sold. Recordon was recently recognized by Google and O’Reilly as the recipient of a 2007 Open Source Award for his efforts with OpenID and is the youngest recipient in the history of the award.

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July 29, 2008

Kevin Henrikson - Zimbra

Tom Hughes-Croucher sat down with Kevin Henrikson at OSCON just after Kevin's talk on Zimbra and its experience, tips, tricks incorporating the mainstream (BlackBerry, iPhone 2, AD, Exchange) with new web technologies (REST, XMPP, MySQL, J2ME, AJAX and more) to gradually reshape the enterprise.




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July 11, 2008

BOSS: A YDN! Screencast

BOSS (Build your Own Search Service) is Yahoo!'s open search web services platform. The BOSS goal is simple - foster innovation in the search industry. Using BOSS, developers, start-ups and even large Internet companies can build and launch web-scale search products that utilize the entire Yahoo! Search index - including investments in crawling and indexing, ranking and relevancy algorithms, and our powerful infrastructure.
In this screencast, Vik Singh walks you through two examples of BOSS:

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July 8, 2008

Yahoo! Performance Presents: After YSlow "A"

Already getting a YSlow "A"? Looking for more ways to make your pages faster and improve Roundtrip scores? This talk is for you!

The latest Exceptional Performance breakthroughs are making their Sunnyvale debut. We have not only updated the existing 14 rules, but also added 20 new recommendations to accelerate the end-user's experience.

Nicole Sullivan and Stoyan Stefanov from the Exceptional Performance team guide you through high performance servers, cookies, content, JavaScript, CSS, images, and mobile. Join us in a discussion of some of the highlights: optimizing images, to sprite or not to sprite?, JavaScript event handlers, alpha filters (eww!), taking advantage of iPhone's cache, and more. This talk is appropriate to engineers, product managers, UED, and (of course) web developers. Site-up and especially performance are important Yahoo! priorities.

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