Eric Ferraiuolo — Web App Development with YUI 3

37 minutes; source: YUI Theater (Hi-res flash) or yuiblog.com (.m4v, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Eric Ferraiuolo of Oddnut Software talks about the nuances of deploying real-world web applications using YUI 3. (Slides).

Brendan Eich — ECMA Harmony and the Future of JavaScript

66 minutes; source: YUI Theater (Hi-res flash) or yuiblog.com (.m4v, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Brendan Eich, the creator of the world's most popular programming language, talks about the struggle over the ES4 proposal and how it resulted in a specific set of proposals for ES5. (Transcript).

Brad Neuberg — Introduction to HTML5

62 minutes; source: YUI Theater (Hi-res flash) or yuiblog.com (.m4v, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Brad Neuberg of Google provides a wide-ranging introduction to HTML5 as it's being implemented in modern browsers, including features such as SVG/Canvas, the video tag, database storage, app-cache, and more. (Slides | Transcript).

Andreas Bovens and David Storey — 10 Essential Things You Should Know about Supporting Opera

42 minutes; source: YUI Theater (Hi-res flash) or yuiblog.com (.m4v, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Andreas Bovens and David Storey from browsermaker Opera Software talk about the Opera browser, reviewing key points that developers should be aware of as they work to support Opera on their sites. (Transcript).

Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath and Scott Chacon — Git, GitHub and Social Coding

68 minutes; source: YUI Theater (Hi-res flash) or yuiblog.com (.m4v, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Tom Preston-Werner, Chris Wanstrath and Scott Chacon of GitHub discuss the distinguishing characteristics of Git as a source control tool and how GitHub empowers social coding in compelling new ways. (Transcript).

Charles McCathieNevile — Opera Dragonfly

19 minutes; source: YUI Theater (Hi-res 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. (Slides | Transcript).

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.

• Part One | Part Two

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.

YUI Theater Accessibility Series

1. Todd Kloots: Developing an Accessible Web 2.0 Widget Framework (49 minutes): Flash | MPEG-4 | HD Video & transcript
2. Todd Kloots: Developing Accessible Widgets Using ARIA (49 minutes): Flash | MPEG-4
3. Victor Tsaran: An Introduction to Screen Readers (27 minutes): Flash | MPEG-4
4. Karo Caran: An Introduction to Screen Magnification Software (16 minutes): Flash | MPEG-4
5. Shawn Lawton Henry: Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Update (75 minutes): Flash | MPEG-4 | Transcript

Doug Geoffray — From the Mouth of a Screenreader

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

GW Micro founder Doug Geoffray discusses the evolution of screen readers on the desktop and the nature of the challenges we face as we start addressing similar issues in the context of rich internet applications.

• Part One | Part Two

Implementation Focus — LinkedIn

10 minutes; source: YUIBlog (Flash)

An interview with frontend engineers at LinkedIn disucssing their use of YUI.