YDN Theater - Videos, Tutorials from Yahoo! Developer Network

Using Node.JS to Build Great Streaming Services

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:26:13 -0500

Tom Hughes-Croucher, founder of Jetpacks for Dinosaurs (and formerly of Yahoo), gives out a whole lot of tips on using Node.JS to make streaming services in this presentation from HTML5 Dev Conf. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Node.js Cocktails: Scaling Yahoo!

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:12:16 -0500

Yahoo! Front-End Engineer, Diego Ferreiro, will talk about how and why Yahoo! migrated their web stack to a Node.js and Cocktails platform, as well as comparing the performance between PHP and Node.js on Yahoo's infrastructure. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Cache Is King!

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:12:07 -0500

In this keynote presentation from HTML5DevConf, Steve Souders, Google's Head Performance Engineer, clarifies the problem of caching, and explores various solutions to make your web app lightning fast. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Keeping The Dream Alive: Facebook's James Pearce on HTML5

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 23:58:08 -0500

In this presentation from HTML5 Dev Conf, Facebook's James Pearce discusses the social behemoth's position on HTML5, where it is and what challenges HTML5 faces, as well as addressing "how we can help make HTML5 the reality, the instantiation of the dream we all hope it will be." (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Broken Promises of HTML5, and What's Next?

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:02:06 -0500

HTML5 has been quite the buzzword for a while now and as developers we are stuck in between a massive d emand and a lack of technical support. In this talk Mozilla's Chris Heilmann will show how we can juggle our demands and move forward towards a world where HTML5 is not a cool "nice to have", but the standard it set out to be. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Building the Web of Tomorrow

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:04:08 -0500

In this talk from HTML5 Developers Conference 3, Bear Travis, Sofware Engineer on the Web Engine team at Adobe, talks about how CSS3 is pushing the web content of tomorrow via web standards, and why it’s important that you get on board. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Sass, Compass & the New Webdev Tools

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:14:05 -0500

Dirk Ginader, Senior UX Prototyper at Yahoo! really likes Sass & Compass. He like them so much that he wants to tell you all about them: their nestable properties, their mixins, their awesome rules (like @import). n n(Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

The Beauty of Constraints

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:18:06 -0500

In this presentation from HTML5 Dev Conf 3, Faruk Ates, founder of four53 (creators of Presentate) and former UI designer at Apple, talks about the values and lessons learned from imposing constraints on projects including UI, software, and API design. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Web Application Architecture: Lessons Learned from Adobe Brackets

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:22:42 -0500

Using the architecture of Brackets, the open source code editor created by Adobe, Brian Rinaldi will examine some best practices for architecting well designed, modern applications using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Web Application Development Workflow

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:22:48 -0500

Iterating faster, avoiding bugs through tools, and improved automated testing are great ideas, but in this keynote presentation from HTML5DevConf, Google's Paul Irish will show how to really incorporate them into a functional and realistic developer workflow. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

HTML5 Video Full Throttle

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:24:05 -0500

Michael Dale, Lead Front End Architect at Kaltura, talks about the challenges in delivering consistent media experiences across a wide array of devices with different capabilities in this video from HTML5 Developer Conference. He'll also give you some tools and techniques for delivering optimal experiences across different integration contexts and devices. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf by Marakana )

Hampton's 6 Rules of Mobile Design

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:26:06 -0500

Hampton Catlin, inventor of Sass and original creator of Wikipedia Mobile, will take you through the design process he used for m.wikipedia.org and give you his 6 Rules of Mobile Design. What makes a good mobile interface? What makes a bad one? Though mobile design is drastically different than desktop design, Hampton will review how the mobile development process can give you huge insights into your other interfaces. (Recorded at HTML5DevConf 3by Marakana )

Developing Windows 8 Apps with HTML5, CSS3, & JavaScript

Wed, 23 Jan 2013 00:16:06 -0500

Microsoft's Doris Chen helps you get a jumpstart on developing Windows 8 apps with HTML5, CSS3, & JavaScript. Chen will touch on several topics such as WinJS & tools, development best practices, touch, controls, and the app bar.

Mojito: Your stuff runs on both sides

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:20:29 -0500

Bruno Fernandez-Ruiz talks about how Mojito can be used effectively to have a single codebase and build cross-platform apps. Bruno also explains the advantages of having an MVC framework for your Node.js applications. More on Mojtio in developer.yahoo.com/cocktails/mojito/.

Yahoo! Open Hack Day Southeast Asia 2009 - Jakarta

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:58:21 -0500

This is a video following a few users at Open Hack Day through the event from the beginning to the announcing of Hack Day winners. This was the first Open Hack Day in Southeast Asia and the first time for a large event in Jakarta

Yahoo Open Hack Europe 2011 in 4 minutes

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:58:21 -0500

A Quick overview of the Yahoo Open Hack Europe 2011 event in Bucharest, Romania on May 14-15.

Open Hack Europe 2011 Timelapse

Tue, 22 Jan 2013 00:52:14 -0500

Yahoo! Open Hack Europe was held in Bucharest, Romania in 2011.

Creating Responsive HTML5 Touch Interfaces

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:36:07 -0500

At the February 6, 2012 BayJax event at Yahoo!, Flickr Frontend Engineer Stephen Woods shared his hard-won advice for building responsive touch-based interfaces using HTML5, CSS, and JavaScript. He also revealed how Star Trek: The Next Generation predicted the need for instant user feedback in a touch-based UI and how Tivo's slow UI was made bearable by a simple "bloop" sound.

Progressive Enhancement 2.0 by Nicholas Zakas

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:38:02 -0500

Nicholas Zakas, former Yahoo! engineer and author of several books about JavaScript, joined us at the March 5th, 2012 BayJax event to share his vision of progressive enhancement, and how web pages don't have to look the same in every browser. What does Nicholas's mother (@slicknetsmom) have to do with this? Watch the video to find out!

Open Hack India 2012

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 00:12:04 -0500

Our fifth Open Hack in India held in Bangalore on August 11-12, was Yahoo!’s biggest Open Hack ever. Check out the cool hackers, and the amazing energy which sets this event apart!