Presentation

Persistent Storage for Web Apps

Web developers now have the ability to store large amounts of persistent data on the client-side, way beyond the 4K limit of cookies. Options include HTML 5 Storage, Gears, Dojo Storage, and more. Brad Neuberg talks about the latest ways to achieve browser-based client-side storage and how it can help you make better web apps.

Seen at the Yahoo! Developer Network Blog.

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The Next Web of Open, Linked Data

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20 years ago, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. For his next project, he’s building a web for open, linked data that could do for numbers what the Web did for words, pictures, video: unlock our data and reframe the way we use it together.

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TED Talks: Beyond the Crisis, Mindboggling Science and the Arrival of Homo Evolutis

Even as mega-banks topple, Juan Enriquez says the big reboot is yet to come. But don’t look for it on your ballot — or in the stock exchange. It’ll come from science labs, and it promises keener bodies and minds. Our kids are going to be … different.

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Intro to jQuery by John Resig

Here is John Resig’s presentation of jQuery from this year’s The Ajax Experience. Learn how to develop a number of common-case widgets, handle DOM, event, animations and Ajax interactions.

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Ext-JS 3.0 Showcases Visual Designer, Updates Roadmap

Jack Slocum has posted a screencast of the visual designer tool that will be part of upcoming release of Ext. The roadmap for version 3, due out in the first quarter of 2009, has also been updated. Here is what we can expect (I am really interested in the ones in bold): All new lightweight, [...]

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Build Your First Ext-JS in Under an Hour

The Visual Ajax User Group is hosting a webinar with Aaron Conran, Sr. Architect Ext-JS on Thursday, October 16th, 2008. Sign up now.

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Steve Souders Releases Hammerhead, Firebug Extension

Improving performance starts with metrics. How long does it take for the page to load? Seems like a simple question to answer, but gathering accurate measurements can be a challenge. Enter Hammerhead, Steve Sounder’s latest Firebug extension.

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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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