Introduction to Building Desktop-Style UIs: JavaScript on Grails
Published June 12th, 2009 Under AJAX, Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
The demand for increased interactivity with today’s web applications has resulted in a need to bring the familiar UI features of the desktop to the Web. With the availability of mature 3rd party JavaScript libraries, AJAX technology (DOM, CSS, JavaScript) provides a feasible way to fill this need. The presenter will walk through building rich web apps using Yahoo! UI (YUI) and Ext JS JavaScript libraries on the Grails platform. The presenter will also demonstrate ways of implementing basic and advanced features using these libraries.
YUI 3: Design Goals and Architecture
Published May 25th, 2009 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Satyen Desai, senior YUI engineer, discusses YUI’s next-generation codeline, YUI 3.
Hacking with YUI
Published April 30th, 2009 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Sr. YUI Engineer Jenny Donnelly provides a tour of the YUI Library with an eye toward its use in rapid prototyping environments. Video is from an internal Yahoo event staged to help developers prepare for an upcoming Hack Day session.
Introducing the YUI Compressor
Published January 22nd, 2009 Under Javascript, Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
In this brief 3-minute video, Yahoo! engineer and technical evangelist Julien Lecomte describes the rationale behind and philosophy underlying the new YUI Compressor tool.
Test-Driven Development with YUI Test
Published December 16th, 2008 Under Open Source Tools | Leave a Comment
Yahoo! engineer and YUI Test developer Nicholas C. Zakas provides an introduction to the concepts of test-driven development (TDD) and shows how to apply them to frontend engineering using YUI Test.
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