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Web Application Development with YUI3

The slides and video from my talk at YUICONF2009.

This talk discusses techniques for deploying YUI 3 custom modules within a larger server application environment, using a working application as a reference. You’ll learn how to streamline your development and deployment process, ways to organize your code for maximum efficiency, how to integrate with the Eclipse IDE, and some tips and tricks around build strategies and server-side tooling.

Slides:

Video:

Web App Development with YUI 3 from Eric Ferraiuolo on Vimeo.
…The video is also on the YUI Theater.

YUI3 is Sizzling Hot

Great news for YUI3: Matt Sweeney, a YUI Developer, has integrated the Sizzle JavaScript Selector Library in a branch of the YUI3 code-base on GitHub. There has been interest from the community about this integration for quite some time. I personally was hoping for Sizzle adoption into YUI3; this now appears to be the case.

Using the Selector utility in YUI2 I would find myself hitting bugs and roadblocks where my expectations weren’t matching the outcomes. I’ve felt since first using the selector engine in YUI that it didn’t compare in speed, robustness, or completeness to jQuery’s. With the Sizzle project, there’s a narrow focus and distinct vision: To make the best damn selector engine. Since a selector engine is an essential component to any modern JavaScript library, why not make one really good one for all libraries to use? That’s the route the Sizzle project has taken.

Once Sweeney’s branch is merged into the YUI3 Master Head, I’ll be doing a git pull and give it some exercise.

YUI Opens Up

There’s been some changes with the Yahoo! User Interface library (YUI) project to make it more open. Contributing to YUI in the past was an odd burdenson process as the public-facing YUI project on SourceForge was essentially a proxy to an internal project at Yahoo!.

Over the past month many changes have come to the YUI project that are more than just code:

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