2010 Tech Thursdays: a year of links in review
A look back at some of the amazing and eclectic links that have made the Tech Thursday lists in 2010.
Post archive for 2010
School of Webcraft, 3-column layouts, Spirit of Indiana (Jones), webpage-to-wireframe tool Wirify, CSS sprites, and Ben Stiller on Twitter
Holiday treats!
Gone Holidayin’
We wish you a peaceful and happy winter solstice and holiday season. Meanwhile, here’s a recap of where you might have met us in 2010.
What’s next for Delicious (cross-post)
Editor’s note: This post originally appeared on the Delicious blog. We’re reposting here for you to access: What’s Next for Delicious? Many of you have read the news stories about Delicious that began appearing yesterday. We’re genuinely sorry to have these stories appear with so little context for our loyal users. While we can’t answer [...]
Christmas + iPad, Lorem Ipsum, powerful Tweets, HTML5 Canvas, CSS Resets, and reenact Big piano scene
It’s been a week that brought winter chill to the southeast, so much snow that the Metrodome roof collapsed, and Warcraft game expansion setting the record for the fastest-selling PC game ever. In the meantime, we bring you interesting links from the world of technology for another rendition of Tech Thursday: A Comprehensive Guide to [...]
Scalecamp London 2010: Big is Beautiful!
Scalability and Performance are art-forms close to our heart at Yahoo!, so we felt honored and obligated to sponsor the event.
Pushing Beyond Gzipping
Roughly 15% of web visitors don’t receive compressed responses. The culprit are proxies and security software that mangle or strip the Accept-Encoding HTTP header.
Cloudstock Recap: YQL, hackathon, and winter showers
On Monday, Yahoo! Developer Network participated in Salesforce’s inaugural Cloudstock event, a developer-centric prelude to Dreamforce, Salesforce.com’s annual customer gathering.
TimesOpen 2.0: A NY Times Hackday
I gotta admit, one of the best parts about being a Yahoo is participating in hackdays. Hackdays are in the Yahoo DNA.
Google Chrome, Minecraft CPUs, and Web Socket doom!
Our weekly foray into the online geeky zeitgeist brings you this set of links to have alongside your cuppa-whatever-it-is-you-sip.
Chicago RHoKs! and we were there
What came through was the spirit of collaboration. Didn’t matter what company or where people came from: We were all there to do good.
Contest: Mixing it up with Kynetx and YQL
For this contest, build any application that uses both Kynetx and YQL. You can add any other web service into the mix.
‘Tis the season for developers’ calendars
Developers are embracing the spirit of sharing, while recollecting what 2010 brought us in terms of new technologies and ideas.
Lazy Loading Video, Jumo, jQuery Plugins, Google Beatbox, and iGift ideas
Developer Kelvin Ling offers the usual eclectic (and fun) selection of links that piqued interest this week.
Two perspectives on the developer day in Jordan
We start with participant Anas Al-Far’s take, followed by YDN International director Murray Rowan’s insider view, and sprinkle in attendees’ comments.