Friday, September 17th, 2010
Progressive enhancement is still a confusing matter for a lot of people who are very excited about the capabilities of JavaScript in modern browser environments. It can feel anachronistic to write your solutions for a non-JS environment and then once more enhances in JavaScript. I grew up like that so for me it is a Read the rest…
Wednesday, August 11th, 2010
Category: Presentation, Yahoo!
Yahoo invites to their campus in Sunnyvale, California on the 27th of August to hear Douglas Crockford talk about “Loopage”. In his own words: Software development is hampered by a specific set of design mistakes that were made in the first programming languages and repeated in everything that has been done since. And, somewhat miraculously, Read the rest…
Friday, January 29th, 2010
Category: Examples, Geo
, Google
, JavaScript
, Mapping
, Yahoo!
As part of an upcoming article on geo location I am putting together a few Geo Toys for myself and here is the first one. Addmap.js is a JavaScript that analyses an elements text content, finds geographical locations and links them to Google Maps. It also adds a map preview and a list of the Read the rest…
Monday, January 11th, 2010
Category: JavaScript, jQuery
, JSON
, XmlHttpRequest
, Yahoo!
OK, this is nothing shockingly new, but I found it pretty useful. Using jQuery, Ajax has become more or less a one-liner: javascript < view plain text > $(document).ready(function(){ $(‘.ajaxtrigger’).click(function(){ $(‘#target’).load($(this).attr(‘href’)); return false; }); }); This loads the document any link with a class of “ajaxtrigger” points to and Read the rest…
Tuesday, January 5th, 2010
Category: Presentation, Yahoo!
Douglas Crockford showed us how JavaScript (or parts of it) could be used to do real software engineering. Now Crockford and Yahoo! are hosting a cool series of public lectures on the language we all love: Douglas Crockford is Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect and a member of the committee designing future versions of the world’s most Read the rest…
Wednesday, December 9th, 2009
Category: Screencast, Tutorial
, Yahoo!
, YUI
It is amazing how much easier it is these days to build pretty sweet mashups by using hosted services. Here’s a screencast of using Yahoo, Bing and Google to build a search interface in under 25 minutes without having to read any API docs or installing SDKs by using YQL: Building a search mashup with Read the rest…
Wednesday, September 30th, 2009
Category: Library, Toolkit
, Yahoo!
The YUI team has put out YUI 3.0: We’re pleased to announce today the general-availability release of YUI 3.0.0. YUI 3’s core infrastructure (YUI, Node and Event) and its utility suite (including Animation, IO, Drag & Drop and more) are all considered production-ready with today’s release. This is a ground-up redesign of YUI: Selector-driven: YUI Read the rest…
Thursday, September 17th, 2009
Category: Flash, JavaScript
, Storage
, Yahoo!
, YUI
Yahoo this week announced the new release of the Yahooo User Interface library. This is great because it answers the question if the 2.x library is still being maintained whilst 3.0 is out and buzzing. The detailed release notes for YUI 2.8.0 show that there is indeed a lot of maintenance and improvement still being Read the rest…
Thursday, July 9th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, JSON
, Yahoo!
Yesterday’s announcement of Yahoo’s YQL now supporting insert, update and delete overshadowed another interesting new feature: JSONP-X output. Here’s what it is and why it is useful: YQL data can be returned in XML which is annoying to use in JavaScript (for starters because of crossdomain issues in Ajax). JSON is much easier as it Read the rest…
Friday, July 3rd, 2009
Alex MacCaw has released Machsend, a Yahoo! Browser Plus plugin that enables P2P file transfers from inside the browser. It showcases what can be done with a BP plugin, leaving you wish cross browser functionality. I guess it is kinda fun to hack the browser :)
Thursday, July 2nd, 2009
Category: JavaScript, JSON
, Yahoo!
As preparation for an upcoming tech talk about Placemaker I thought it would be good to take a bit of the pain out of the geolocation service by making an interface for it. Placemaker works the following way: you post some content or a URL to it, it goes through the content or gets the Read the rest…
Thursday, June 25th, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Library
, Yahoo!
Congrats to the YUI team for releasing their first beta of YUI 3: We’ve spent a lot of time in this release cycle refining the core elements of YUI 3 — YUI, Node, and Event — to ensure that we have the right API going forward. Performance is improved, and we’ve refined our module/submodule structure. Read the rest…
Monday, June 8th, 2009
One thing that annoys me is that in the days of geolocation and location recognition I still have to enter my country and city in forms over and over again. This is especially annoying when you like in the UK which could be anywhere in these wonderful large dropdowns (UK, England, Great Britain, United Kingdom, Read the rest…
Friday, May 15th, 2009
Category: Framework, Library
, Yahoo!
Talks about JavaScript are not a rare occasion any more, everybody has something to say about this wonderfully versatile language. Douglas Crockford taught us a lot about the language itself, John Resig and Peter Paul Koch taught us how browsers deal (and fail dealing) with it and there are dozens of screencasts of how to Read the rest…
Thursday, April 30th, 2009
Category: Examples, JavaScript
, Yahoo!
I am a big fan of YQL, a terribly easy and fuss-free way to access APIs and mix data retrieved from them in a simple, SQL style language. Say for example you want photos of Paris,France from Flickr that are licensed with Creative Commons attribution, you can do this with a single command: code < Read the rest…
Friday, April 3rd, 2009
Category: JavaScript, Yahoo!
Eric Ferraiuolo has created a YUI3 component for smart polling which means: Use conditional GET requests Retain the most recent Etag and Last-Modified date of the polled resource Disable polling when the browser window is inactive Implementing a smart polling process in our application’s rich UI gives us some desired benefits: Removal of the refresh Read the rest…
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