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Yahoo!’s Mojito is Now Open Source

I’m psyched to announce today the availability of Yahoo!’s Mojito in open source, a ground-breaking JavaScript framework developed by Yahoo! for Web developers. Mojito is one of the Yahoo! Cocktails, our JavaScript-centric presentation platform for connected devices. Notice how I said Mojito is targeted at Web developers. Why? Because we strongly believe in an open, [...]

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Hadoop Summit 2012 – Registration now open!

San Jose Convention Center on on June 13-14, 2012 Hortonworks and Yahoo! are proud to host the 5th annual Hadoop Summit. The two-day event will feature many of the thought leaders from the Apache Hadoop community who will showcase successful Hadoop use cases, share development and administration tips and tricks and educate organizations about how [...]


3D Nyan Cat, Understanding MVVM, Debunking UX Myths, Mobile Web Frameworks, and more…

Google HTML and CSS style guide. Nyan Cat, now in 3D – built in WebGL using Three.js Tetris in 73 lines of Python. Understanding Model View View Model, a guide for JavaScript developers. How to cook a complete Windows 8 application with HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript in a week. UX Myths, debunking user experience misconceptions. [...]

HackU at IIT Madras – Lukewarm start to a red hot finish

HackU is a fun way to relive the college campus experience and each one of us look forward to these events. On March 29th to April 1st, we were at IIT Madras for the 3rd HackU in as many years. The event was inaugurated by Prof. Krishna Sivalingam of IIT Madras. Jeyandran Venugopal and Sudhir [...]

Ziptastic, Particle Animation Experiments, JavaScript Playground, Semicolona, and more…

Semicolona, a language of only semicolons. Notebook lined paper in pure CSS. HTML5 drag and drop tutorial, sorting photos into albums. Nickelodeon iOS app case study, How Fi and Nickelodeon Brought the Choice to the Kids. An extensive tutorial on how to create interesting QR codes. Real-time games using HTML5, WebSockets, nodejs and socket.io. Tips, [...]

HTML5 Facts and Myths, JavaScript Boulder Dash, Daftunes, and more…

An article on HTML5 async, Thinking Async. Sanity check your JavaScript with TypedJS. Daft Punk music with WebGL effects. A beginners guide to HTML & CSS. iPhone and Android web based simulator. HTML5 game collection site. The Milky Way in HTML5. Boulder Dash in JavaScript. 7 Facts and Myths of HTML5. Introduction to OAuth in [...]

HackU at IIT Kharagpur: How sweet can it get!

We just wrapped up another great Hack U at IIT Kharagpur. Yahoos were out there from March 22nd to 25th. HackU kicked off on Thursday evening with an inauguration from Prof. Jayantha Mukhopadhya, IIT Kharagpur – Head, CSE Department. It was then followed by an introduction to hacking and tech talks on YQL, a front-end [...]

Paperfold CSS, History of Unicode, Liquid Metal Ball in WebGL, Internet Minute, Maintainable CSS and more…

How to avoid the common pitfalls of Mobile App Development. An introduction to parallax scrolling. How to develop scalable and maintainable CSS. What happens in an internet minute? Create an interactive liquid metal ball with WebGL. A (very entertaining) history of Unicode. User Experience tools from Nokia. Pretty cool Tower Defence game on Google Maps. [...]

CSS3D Clouds, Tron in JS, X-Platform development with HTML 5, and more…

How HTML5 will support cross-platform development. JavaScript game of Tron in 219 bytes. Mozilla’s BrowserQuest, a massively multiplayer HTML5 (WebSocket + Canvas) game experiment. These CSS3D clouds really are quite awesome. JavaScript pattern and antipattern collection. Inception Explained, a nice scrolling animation of the plot of the movie. This jQuery plugin turns any HTML element [...]

Hack the Change, Change the Hack

Five years ago Yahoo introduced their 24 hour hack experience to universities around the world. At first it took a while to convince school officials to open their buildings to a bunch of students for 40 hours to build, learn, network, and create cool projects that they wouldn’t learn in class. Yahoo HackU events have [...]

ChronoZoom, page load costs, Boot to Gecko, and more…

How much does a one-second page load delay cost, infographic? Mozilla’s “Boot to Gecko” project aimed at enabling the Open Web as a platform for mobile devices. Teach and Learn HTML5, CSS3, JS in a new way. Check out the pattern library from the new responsive Starbucks. How to write Augmented Reality application with JavaScript. [...]

Learn Game Theory, SpitePad, HTML 5 tutorials, HTML 5 Games, and more…

With SpritePad you can create CSS sprites simply by drag & drop your images. Available on Firefox and Chrome at the moment. 8 crazy animations with WebGL and HTML5 canvas. Responsinator, a simple & effective way to test your site design on a range of popular screen sizes. StyleDocco generates documentation and style guide documents [...]