You’d hardly know it by going to maps.yahoo.com, but Yahoo! Maps are now pure JavaScript instead of a hybrid of Flash and JavaScript. Lead Maps Developer Mirek Grymuza and the Maps team have done an amazing job of seamlessly moving the Maps client over resulting in at least double the performance of the previous Flash-based [...]
It’s called a “.5″ release, but there’s so much new developer candy in Yahoo! Widgets 4.5 that it sure looks like 5.0. Core Widgets developer Ed Voas takes us on a tour of the major new features in his recent blog post. Ed points out that Widgets now has WebKit in the Widget Engine so [...]
Hong Kong’s first ever Barcamp on the 15th of December 2007 was a great success. Around 70 Barcampers spread out over four meeting rooms of the Yahoo! offices on the 27th floor in Sunning Plaza to share information and show solutions they’ve built. In comparison to other barcamps I attended (Paris, London, Munich) I was [...]
Last week Tenni Theurer, manager of Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance group and my main performance co-hort, returned from her appearance at the CSDN-Dr.Dobbs Software Developer 2.0 Conference in Beijing, China. This was a big conference, perhaps the biggest software conference ever in China. I was psyched when Tenni told me her talk drew a crowd and [...]
Last week, from the 5th to the 7th of December the London office of Yahoo! hosted the second internal European Frontend Engineering Summit. This meant that for three days everyone who works on the confusing bit of web development – the frontend – had a chance to meet up and listen to lots of talks [...]
The minimized size of the YUI libraries is relatively small compared to similar AJAX frameworks, but maybe not small enough for the most demanding applications. If you need to keep the payload tiny, and perhaps not even download YUI libraries until absolutely necessary, Yahoo! Frontend engineer Chris Heilmann explains how to load YUI components on [...]
[12/7 Update: read an interesting Juku synopsis, by Yahoo! Frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas, on the YUI blog] When you think of prestigious law schools, it’s Harvard. Computer Science? Maybe MIT or Carnegie Mellon. When it comes to front end engineering though, Yahoo! Juku may be the best bet. Taught largely by our in-house front [...]
We’re excited to announce the release of YSlow 0.9, Yahoo!’s web page performance analysis tool. There are two big features in this release. By integrating more tightly with Firebug’s Net Panel, YSlow now finds non-DOM components such as Ajax requests and image beacons. And YSlow now crawls frames and iframes and analyzes those resources as [...]
It might be a stretch to say that Yahoo’s new Flash music player, Easylistener, “plays” the web, but it comes close. One feature that sets it apart from many other embeddable music players is that it not only can read standard playlist formats such as XSPF, M3U, and ASX, but it can search RSS and [...]
On 30st of November – St. Andrew’s Day – the European University Hack Team went from London to Scotland to pick the winners of the Dundee University Hack Program. All in all the Scottish students came up with 18 hacks to woo both the judges and the professors – as the European University hack is [...]
There are a lot of memcached hackers and power users in the Bay Area, so we’re proud to be hosting an all night hackathon in a couple weeks. Hack and code memcached. Active developers from the community will be joining us along with fellow Yahoo’s for an all-night hackathon. We are working towards shipping new [...]
