Posts by Jonathan LeBlanc

From March 23rd to 26th the Hack U team was out at UT in Austin, Texas, hacking as usual.

I’d like to officially announce a new upcoming book from Yahoo! Press and O’Reilly, “Programming Social Applications.”

OpenSocial is one of the foundation technologies that we use for YAP for interacting with our users’ social information.

We had 20 great hacks produced by the students over the 24-hour period, ranging from geo-location and cooperative development to an application to protect you from the woes of being Rick Rolled.

The marriage of YQL and JavaScript brings a robust MVC interface to the browser. This article guides you through a highly scalable YQL/JavaScript use case.

We were in Columbia, South Carolina, for one of my favorite conferences: ConvergeSE. Check out the link to my talk on favorite HTML5 features, and security and privacy concerns.

Portland, Oregon: Open Source Bridge is a great conference for people passionate about open source, to share ideas, show off new products, and just see what is happening.

With increasing concerns about privacy, YDN reiterates that the privacy and security of user data are primary concerns. Here’s a look at ways to control that data.

This post explores the lightweight JavaScript APIs introduced in OpenSocial 0.9, and some of the helper methods available, that let you personalize your apps with user data.

The launch of version 2.1 of the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP) introduces significant improvements to integrate OpenSocial 0.9 and the Shindig backbone support into YAP.

On April 10th I had a chance to make it out to BarCamp Harrisburg 2. This one was hosted in the illustrious Harrisburg University building and had some great state-of-the-art equipment for all our geeking needs.

Working with the Flickr photo search table within YQL can put the onus on the developer to understand how a Flickr URL produces images and links back to author pages. This guide breaks down how to build these URLs for the Flickr search table.

Delving into some of the great features coming from HTML 5, we explore what can be done now with the standard and what features are up and coming. A big thanks to Mark Pilgrim for the Confoo talk that inspired this post.

Last week we were out in Montreal, Quebec for the Confoo.ca Conference. The conference brought together several Montreal technology groups under one roof. YDN’s Jon LeBlanc gave two talks.

Last week YDN evangelist Jon LeBlanc and I were down in Miami, Florida, participating in BarCamp Miami and The Future of Web Apps, Miami, introducing YQL and Yahoo!’s open technologies to developers.