YUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews (Interview)

Jan 25, 2011 · 31 min · 15.5 MB

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Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford.

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Show Notes:

YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS
Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release
Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers on the YUI team.
The Autocomplete widget provides a flexible, configurable, and accessible implementation of the AutoComplete design pattern.
The DataTable widget renders columnar data into a highly customizable and fully accessible HTML table
The Dial widget is an alternative to sliders
The YUI Charts recently moved from Flash to JavaScript in YUI 3
The Community developed the drag/move component
YUI is on GitHub, fueling community involvement
YUI Theater is a great source for JavaScript talks and all things YUI
Douglas Crockford is the author of JSLint, the JSON spec, featured on Episode 0.2.6 from TXJS
Nicholas C. Zakas aka @slicknet is the author of a number of JavaScript books
Eric Miraglia is the Engineering Manager for the YUI team
JSLint improves your JavaScript but will not spare your feelings
Dave Glass - has a great talk about YUI + Node
“I love async, but I can’t code like this”
Many of the additional Node.js modules deal with parallel execution
Adam suggests targeting features, not platform since features like touch will be on the desktop eventually.
Satyen’s talk on YUI’s mobile strategy
The module pattern in JavaScript
The YUI Gallery lists discoverable components contributed by the community

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