October 29, 2008

SNAP Summit - Yahoo! Launch Announcement

Yahoo!'s "Open Strategy" (Y!OS) provides developers, publishers and advertisers with unprecedented access to Yahoo!'s global audience and traffic. Cody Simms, will introduce you to Y!OS and the next generation of tools that help developers engage with Yahoo!'s massive audience like never before. Watch it here:

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October 28, 2008

Yahoo! Open Strategy: Overview

Neal Sample & Cody Simms walk you through the entire Y!OS platform. This presentation was given as part of Open Hack Day 2008.

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October 28, 2008

Yahoo! Application Platform

Xavier Legros gave a presentation at Open Hack Day 2008 on the Y! Application Platform:

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October 27, 2008

Yahoo! Query Language

During Open Hack Day 2008, Jonathan Trevor gave an overview presentation on Y!QL – the Yahoo! Query Language:

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Raph de Rooij - Standards compliance - why bother? 2/2

Following web standards can sometimes appear to be an annoying overhead when you're developing. Raph de Rooij, who created the Dutch government web guidelines explains in this talk why we need standard compliance and what the benefits are. This is part two of two.

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Raph de Rooij - Standards compliance - why bother? 1/2

Following web standards can sometimes appear to be an annoying overhead when you're developing. Raph de Rooij, who created the Dutch government web guidelines explains in this talk why we need standard compliance and what the benefits are. This is part one of two.

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Pete LePage on Internet Explorer 8 2/2

Pete LePage is product manager of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and explains in this talk the features of IE8 developers can look forward to. This is part two of two.

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Pete LePage on Internet Explorer 8 1/2

Pete LePage is product manager of Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 and explains in this talk the features of IE8 developers can look forward to. This is part one of two.

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Stuart Langridge on Secrets of JavaScript closures 2/2

In this talk Stuart Langridge took on one of JavaScript's most powerful feature, closures and tried to make them understandable for non-JavaScript enthusiasts. This is part two of two.

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Stuart Langridge on Secrets of JavaScript closures 1/2

In this talk Stuart Langridge took on one of JavaScript's most powerful feature, closures and tried to make them understandable for non-JavaScript enthusiasts. This is part one of two.

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Christian Heilmann on Maintainable JavaScript 1/2

In this talk Christian Heilmann explains what you need to take into consideration when building JavaScript for larger and distributed teams. This is part one of two:

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 20, 2008

Fronteers 2008 - Christian Heilmann on Maintainable JavaScript 2/2

In this talk Christian Heilmann explains what you need to take into consideration when building JavaScript for larger and distributed teams. This is part two of two:

The Fronteers Conference in Amsterdam, The Netherlands in September 2008 had several world-class speakers "deep dive" on expert subjects. The conference organizers try very hard to make web development a recognized profession and asked experts to come and give hands-on, expert advice.
The videos were filmed by Bachelor ICT and YDN agreed to give them some extra exposure by hosting them here.

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October 15, 2008

I Can Has Cheezburger

LOL Cats! Eric Wu sits down with Eric Nakagawa and Kari Unebasami and talks about everything from burgers to books:

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October 14, 2008

OHD: Javascript, the Good Parts

Douglas Crockford talks to hack day attendees on the programming language we all love to hate:

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October 14, 2008

Open Hack Day: YUI 3.0

Eric Miraglia and Matt Sweeney gave an Open Hack Day talk on YUI 3.0. Watch it here:

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October 7, 2008

Open Hack Day - the hackumentary

On Sept. 12th. Yahoo! opened it's doors to over 300 hackers and gave them access to it's existing API's and some previews of new Y! Open Strategy technologies.

The "hackumentary" follows hackers throughout the Open Hack Day at Yahoo!. We chronicle the entire event and it's attendees as they race to hack on Yahoo's API's for the ultimate hack challenge, all in less than 24hrs.

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October 5, 2008

Journey to the West: A Developer's Tale

We were sent this video by some developers who were invited to Open Hack Day, meet Gavin, Andrei and Harish. They made a video chronicling their first Open Hack Day experience. Watch their video here:

Gavin Bong Chun Jin is a 38-year old Malaysian software consultant that resides in Petaling Jaya, a Malaysian city at the edge of the country’s capital, Kuala Lumpur. This graduate from Australia’s Monash University is currently employed at Jayway Malaysia Sdn Bhd, a software consulting firm.

Andrei Marinduque Navarro hails from the Philippines where he is currently residing at Antipolo City. This 23-year old senior technology developer/software engineer graduated from Ateneo de Manila University. Since then, he has worked in several other Philippines-based technology companies such as FBM Software/Wablet, Expitrans Phil Inc and Halo Nine software.

Harish Venkata Mallipeddi is a 22-year old software engineer from Singapore. This National University of Singapore graduate is currently attached to a social search organization called Circos.com.

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October 5, 2008

Taiwan Open Hack Day

Taiwan hacks open style.

From the opening band to the enthusiastic prize-giving, Taiwan Open Hack Day 2008 was full of energy. The hacking began even before the opening ceremony was underway, and co-founder David Filo and Rose Tsou, Managing Director of our Asia Region, kicked off the event by throwing a big yellow ball into the audience. Watch the highlights here:

Held in the Taipei Youth Recreation Center on September 20 -21, 41 teams participated to create a total of 180 hacks.

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