YUI Theater

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• 2012-01-19

In this YUI Open Hours session from January 19, 2012, YUI engineer Luke Smith outlines the development priorities for the rewritten DataTable component that will be released with YUI 3.5.0 and steps through some of the code in detail.

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• 2011-11-04

NFL.com's Ryan Cannon joined us at YUIConf 2011 to share the story of why NFL.com chose YUI over jQuery, how they migrated a large codebase from Prototype to YUI 3 on a tight schedule, and how they use YUI to create websites and mobile apps for one of the world's most popular sports leagues.

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• 2011-11-04

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YQL engineer Paul Donnelly demonstrates the features of the Yahoo! Pipes editor and explains how you can use Pipes and YQL to power your web apps, create mashups, and more.

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• 2011-11-04

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Jeff Burtoft, Lead Frontend Engineer at USAA, shares what he's learned about building performant and scalable cross-platform mobile web apps using YUI. In the course of the talk, Jeff reveals some of the pitfalls of dealing with device limitations -- particularly when building native-wrapped web apps that run in web views -- and explains how he and his team worked around them using YUI.

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• 2011-12-15

In this YUI Open Hours session from December 15, 2011, YUI engineers Luke Smith, Eric Ferraiuolo, and Ryan Grove discuss the changes and new features that landed in the first preview release of YUI 3.5.0. Among them: major performance improvements for Get and Loader, the new Y.App component, and laying the foundation for the new DataTable widget.

Links mentioned:
Paul Hummer's YUI 3 Nightlies (with combo server): http://iamtherockstar.com/blog/2011/12/13/announcement-yui-3-nightlies/

Loader issue in PR1:
(discussion) http://yuilibrary.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=92&t=9116
(patch) https://gist.github.com/1478138

Staging site yuilibrary.com (docs that correspond to the dev master branch):
http://stage.yuilibrary.com

DataTable gallery module:
http://yuilibrary.com/gallery/show/datatable-350-preview

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• 2011-11-03

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, Meebo engineer and YUI contributor Jeff Craig reveals everything you've always wanted to know about the YUI Loader but were afraid to ask. This is a must-see for anyone doing performance-critical work with YUI 3.

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• 2011-11-04

In this talk from YUIConf 2011, YUI engineer Allen Rabinovich shares the process he used to architect and build the new Calendar widget in YUI 3, and explains how you can use a similar process to build your own widgets. He also shows off the new component and reveals a clever performance trick used to speed up the rendering of multiple calendars.

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• 2011-11-03

Pat Cavit, a frontend engineer at ArenaNet and an active YUI contributor and community member, joined us at YUIConf 2011 to give this talk on automating build-time website optimizations such as file concatenation, minification, renaming, and more using the Ant build tool.

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• 2011-12-01

In this YUI Open Hours session from December 1, 2011, YUI engineers Luke Smith and Eric Ferraiuolo discuss the plans for YUI 3.5.0 and describe how the YUI team is working to make the development process more transparent and invite more community involvement by posting design proposals as GitHub gists, and by using GitHub pull requests to solicit community code reviews for work-in-progress code.

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• 2011-11-15

In this talk given at Yahoo!, Steve Peha, the president of Teaching That Makes Sense, makes a case for applying the processes and culture of the technology world to the world of education.