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, [...]
Today we’re pleased to announce the availability of our new Content Analysis service through YQL. Content Analysis replaces Yahoo!’s popular Term Extraction service and now provides advanced content analysis on either text or a URL, leverages Yahoo!’s state of the art MLR technology to extract key terms from the content, and, more importantly, to rank [...]
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 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, [...]
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 [...]
The Mozilla Developer Network holiday calendar, each day is a useful resource to enjoy. WebGL Aquarium. The lifecycle of a web page on StumbleUpon. HTML5 essentials and good practices. What is Web Accessibility? 30 days to learn HTML & CSS. A (very) comprehensive article on efficient JavaScript coding. Validate the HTML markup of your whole [...]
Yahoo! is no stranger to hack events. Between our internal Hack Days, Open Hacks, and the HackU events at universities around the world, we have introduced thousands of engineers to the joys of creating cool projects in 24 hours. We are also quite proud of our participation in one of the greatest hack movements: Random [...]
Online account compromise occurs regularly and will probably continue in the foreseeable future. Often hackers employ botnets to hijack accounts from millions of unsuspecting consumers. In turn, these hijacked accounts are sold and used to initiate email scams, with messages seemingly sent from the legitimate account owners to their contacts. Scams can range from the [...]
Color Thief, is a script for grabbing the dominant color or color palette from an image. 25 tips on designing for mobile devices. 10 interactive Flash websites that scream “Play With Me”. A large collection of css layout libraries you can start using today. A crash course in UX. iOS remote debugging just got a [...]
Flickr recently finished a project that sped the html download of their pages to users by an average of 30%, by adding a proxy layer between the user request and the webservers. It seems counter-intuitive that you can actually improve the download time by adding an extra (non-caching) layer of machines. So, if the users [...]
There’s no doubt that Jordan has one of the most thriving developer communities in the Middle East region. Just under one year ago, Yahoo! ran its first developer event in Amman – “A morning with YDN”. At this event, local developers heard for the first time about some of Yahoo!’s great developer technologies, like YQL [...]
Patternizer, a HTML5 canvas pattern generator tool. Why developers should pay attention to node.js. 10 things you may not know about CSS3. An extensive guide to web form usability. Make Photoshop guides grid with JavaScript. Useful tools to speed up your CSS and HTML coding time. Writing better JavaScript with CoffeeScript: the Basics. Getting started [...]
A team of Yahoos from Academic Relations, University Recruiting and the Developer Network partnered with the folks at UCLA and launched our first Hack U™ at the campus. Over 70 students participated during the three days (October 13th – 15th) and the quality of the hacks was outstanding. The events began with a tech, great [...]
Hackers at the University of Michigan wrapped up this year’s HackU events with a set of complex hacks that harnessed artificial Intelligence, real-time analysis, and games. This is appropriate for a school that has garnered plenty of attention for their autonomous vehicles that fly, drive, and scoot. At UMich, it’s perfectly normal to watch a [...]
We recently wrapped up another great Hack U™ at IIT Delhi – from Oct 13 – 16, 2011. This was the second time when we were at IIT Delhi for Hack U. Exceeding our expectations, we saw a record breaking participation! More than 300 students from IIT Delhi, IIIT Delhi, DCE and NSIT came in [...]
