Charles McCathieNevile — Opera Dragonfly

19 minutes; source: YUI Theater HD (Flash) or yuiblog.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Charles McCathie Nevile, Opera's Chief Standards Officer, talks about the Dragonfly debugger debuting with Opera 10.

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PPK (Peter-Paul Koch) — JavaScript Events

55 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

PPK of Quirksmode talks about his recent research on browser events across both desktop and mobile browsers.

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Nate Koechley — Professional Frontend Engineering

89 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or yuiblog.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Nate Koechley lays out the foundations of professional frontend engineering as they've developed at Yahoo over the past decade.

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John Resig — The DOM Is a Mess

72 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

jQuery author John Resig talks about modern JavaScript and DOM programming.

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Nicole Sullivan — Design Fast Websites

43 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Performance expert Nicole Sullivan outlines best practices in building fast, beautiful websites.

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Steve Souders — High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules for Faster Pages

37 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Steve Souders is Yahoo's former chief peformance guru and the author of High Performance Web Sites. While at Yahoo, Steve led a team investigating the root causes of poor page performance and applying the lessons learned to Yahoo!'s high-traffic, media-rich properties. Steve now serves in a similar role at Google.

Bill Scott — Designing the Rich Web Experience: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction Design on the Web

51 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or yuiblog.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Bill Scott served as a Yahoo Ajax Evangelist and engineering manager from 2005-7. In this talk, given at nearly a dozen conferences around the world, Bill taxonomizes the rich interaction patterns that characterize the evolving web — a must-see for web designers and frontend engineers. (Slides, in Apple Keynote format, can be downloaded here [253MB].)

Peter-Paul Koch (PPK) — Fronteers: Guild of Front-End Developers

29 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

PPK is best-known as the author of the essential frontend engineering site quirksmode. In this talk, he discusses his more recent work — the formation of a professional guild for frontend engineers in Holland.

Joseph Smarr — High-performance JavaScript: Why Everything You've Been Taught Is Wrong

51 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or yuiblog.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Joseph Smarr is the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc., where he's led the engineering of Plaxo's address-book integration application. In this talk, Smarr explores the core lessons that he and his Plaxo team have learned in the development of their apps and the details of how they've leveraged maximum performance from the web browser.

Joe Hewitt — Welcome to Firebug 1.0

48 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) | download.yahoo.com (MP4; recommended)

Joe Hewitt is a Mozilla developer who has written software dear to the heart of all web developers, including the original Mozilla DOM Inspector. Joe's newest Mozilla tool is Firebug, an integral logging and debugging extension for Firefox that sets a new standard for its category. Joe provided a power-user tour while announcing Firebug 1.0's release on January 25, 2007, at Yahoo!. Joe is a co-founder of Parakey, Inc.

Joe Hewitt — An Introduction to iUI

15 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Firefox co-founder and Firebug author Joe Hewitt discusses his newest project, iUI — a JS/CSS bundle empowering rapid development of web applications for iPhone that emulate the iPhone's native visual elements and transtions. Recorded in July 2007, a few weeks after the release of the iPhone, this talk also provides an excellent early overview of the state of iPhone web development and an orientation to standards support in the iPhone implementation of Safari.

Grady Booch — The Promise, the Limits, the Beauty of Software

56 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or yuiblog.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow and one of the co-creators of UML. In this talk, he discusses the complex matrix of decisions and processes, both intentional and unintentional, that lead to the software designs and architectures upon which we increasingly rely in everyday life. This is a version of a talk originally given to the British Computer Society in honor of Alan Turing.

John Resig — Advancing JavaScript with Libraries

57 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or yuiblog.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

John Resig of Mozilla Corp., author of the popular JQuery JavaScript library, describes the role of libraries in the world of frontend engineering, the problems they solve, and the things we can learn from how developers use and think about libraries in their projects.

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A Conversation with David Weinberger

55 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or yuiblog.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Author David Weinberger speaks with Yahoo!'s Bradley Horowitz about the nature of our evolving relationship to information — a relationship that is at the heart of the growing network of web-services-dependent applications on the web.

Iain Lamb — The New Hacker's Toolkit

28 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video

Iain Lamb, cofounder of the Oddpost webmail startup that was acquired by Yahoo! and eventually became the basis for the all-new Yahoo! Mail, speaks at Yahoo!'s Open Hack Day on the skills needed by hackers in the new network ecosystem of mashups and web services.