An In-Depth Look at Yahoo!’s Open Strategy Platform

Last week, Yahoo! unveiled its new open strategy platform. The Y!OS platform will centralize user profile and social data in one place on Yahoo! and make it available across Yahoo! properties and accessible by developers outside Yahoo!. We’re creating a standard way for developers to build extensions (applications) into Yahoo!’s most popular websites, and we’re [...]

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Wii Remote Hacks: Johnny Lee on TED.com

Researcher Johnny Lee became a YouTube star with his demo of Wii Remote hacks — bending the low-cost game piece to power an interactive whiteboard, a multitouch surface, a head-mounted display. A multi-ovation demo from TED2008. (Recorded March 2008 in Monterey, California. Duration: 05:40.)

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Improving Performance by Combining Scripts and CSS

According to the Yahoo! performance team, the best way to improve your web site’s performance is to reduce the number of requests for assets such as scripts, style sheets and images. One way to accomplish this is by combining all the script files into one and serving only that file in your production environment. The [...]

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To Love One’s Craft: Fun with grep and RegEx…

I just read an interesting post by Dave Nelson (spugbrap) in which he details all the fun he had writing a script to search through Ext JS source code and open it with Textpad. So, I checked the TextPad help to see if I could pass in the name of a file containing full file [...]

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ColdFusion Tags for POI – Microsoft’s “Poor Obfuscation Implementation”

Ben Nadel of Kinky Solutions has posted his latest work. He has wrapped the Apache POI API in a ColdFusion tag to help us create “authentic” Microsoft Office file formats. Now, the project contains more than just the POIUtility.cfc; it also contains all the ColdFusion custom tags and some additional CSS-based components that can be [...]

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J.J. Abrams Mistery Box

In this 18 minute video J.J. Abrams, the producer of TV shows Alias and Lost and the upcoming film Cloverfield, speaks to a TED audience.

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BlazeDS: Flex Data Services Goes Open-Source

So far the standard way of making data connections in Ajax applications has been over XmlHttpRequest, which requires clients to constantly poll backend servers. Adobe is taking advantage of the opportunity to open up a solid platform capable of providing persistent connections (server push / Comet) and the AMF specification. According to the Adobe Labs [...]

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HTTP Streaming and Internet Explorer

According to Michael Carter, of Comet Daily, evidence of a surefire way to use Comet with IE is purely anecdotal. He describes the steps he followed to uncover the cause of dropped connections in his ActiveX htmlfile hack and how to elegantly work around the issue. Read the whole story here… Blogged with Flock Tags: [...]

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Douglas Crockford: “The State of Ajax” Talk

Watch this video of Douglas Crockford’s “The State of Ajax” talk on Yahoo Developer Network theater.

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Gen Y, What Are They Thinking?

It always seems like the most recent generation of workers is always perceived as the “slacker” generation. In this post, Ryan Healy tells us what he thinks his generation is looking for in a working environment. According to Ryan, 8 out 10 young people see themselves as future entrepreneurs and otherwise self-employed, willing to sacrifice [...]

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