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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 [...]

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Yahoo! Announces Cocktails – Shaken, Not Stirred

Developers, time to geek out. Yahoo! has been working behind the scenes for the past several months on an exciting new technology that we think will deeply impact the web developer community. We call it “Cocktails” and it’s the technology powering Livestand, which we launched today at Product Runway. “Cocktails” is a mix of HTML5, [...]


Knockout.js, IndexedDB, Ducks, Infographics, and more..

An infographic on “to build or not to build a website”. Use WPFunction.Me to quickly build all the functionality you need for a WordPress project. Getting started with IndexedDB. 15 tools for profiling your websites speed. Rapid and responsive UI development with Knockout.js, tutorial by @mattbrailsford. HTML5 Rocks, a resource for open web HTML5 developers. [...]

Loadtimer, Ruby trick shots, HTML 5 vs. Flash games infographic, and more…

3 breakthrough ways to visualize HTML5 audio. Ruby Trick Shots, a video of 24 Ruby tips and tricks. HTML5 Please, lookup HTML5 and CSS3 features. CSS border-image generator. CSS linear gradients syntax generator. Loadtimer, a tool to measure page load times on mobile devices. Pears are common patterns of markup & style. 3D rose in [...]

PHP-Python-Ruby infographic, Hosting infographic, Learn Python, and more…

A Photoshop PSD file parser in JavaScript for browsers and NodeJS. An introduction to jQuery for designers. So you found something cool on the Internet. Web designers, what to look for in a CMS. Infographic on hosting decisions. Create ZIP files in JavaScript. jQuery UI vs Kendo UI. PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby, infographic. Website [...]

The proxority principle, how to build JS games, a JS pattern collection, and more…

The Proxority principle in web design. Mac OS X Lion emulated in your browser using CSS3. Happy Fun Coding, a site to learn to program games in JavaScript. The wonderful calc() function in CSS. Pretty Loaded, a gallery of preloaders. Graphical calculator in HTML5. 10 jQuery Mobile features. Vogar, a command line tool that attempts [...]

2011 Internet Stats, Command and Conquer in HTML 5, Test Driven JS development and more…

Internet 2011 the year in numbers, nearly every possible Internet stat you could ever want. Command and Conquer, recreation of the real time strategy game in HTML5 and Javascript. Overview of CSS3 features and the basics of how to use them. 10 super useful PHP code snippets. A good HTML5/JavaScript/CSS reference site. Sketch in 3D [...]

HTML 5 Cut the Rope, HTML Photoshop, and more…

Ultimate CSS gradient generator. When to use which HTML5 element. Cut the Rope, HTML5 version and behind the scenes. CSS image reflection With Webkit. Photoshop simulator in HTML, CSS and jQuery works just like the real thing. 50 inspiring entrepreneur startup quotes. GameBoy Color emulator written in JavaScript. Fbootstrapp, a toolkit designed to kickstart development [...]

Mobile baby steps, WebGL Nyan, designing the facebook timeline, and more…

WebGL Nyan Cat. How to take mobile baby steps if Mobile First isn’t an option. A look at responsive web design. 10 infographics about WordPress. Introduction to designing for Windows Phone 7 and Metro. Make it snow on your website with CSS keyframe animations. 20 HTML5 sites that changed the game. Designers behind Facebook timeline, [...]

Deprecation of Y! Term Extraction API – Action required by non-YQL users

Today we announce the closure of our Term Extraction service on YDN, which will happen on March 31, 2012. So, you have plenty time to make changes to your applications using this service. Term Extraction has been a part of YDN since 2006 and we are glad so many developers have found it useful over [...]

HTML5 Advent Calendar, Polyfilling, Game Theory 101, and more…

HTML5 and CSS3 advent calendar 2011 edition. 19 creative computer animations to inspire you. Polyfilling the HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript, slides from Addy Osmani’s FITC talk. Interactive CSS3 lighting effects. Ember (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is a JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications. HTML5 and CSS3 without guilt. Animate.css is a bunch of cool, fun, [...]

Yahoo! Search launches a new home for Search BOSS and three new offerings

Boss.yahoo.com launches with new offerings for site owners, developers and publishers; Yahoo! unveils new updates for the BOSS API Today, Yahoo! announced a new home for Search BOSS, boss.yahoo.com, and three new BOSS offerings: BOSS Hosted Search, BOSS Site Search and BOSS Shortcuts. The new offerings address user engagement, traffic recirculation, monetization, and high development [...]