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Eric Miraglia

Engineering Manager, YUI Team

Eric Miraglia has been authoring social web applications since 1995, when he began developing interactive writing spaces for universities; his Speakeasy Studio & Cafe was used by more than 100 universities between 1997 and 2004.

Since 2003, Eric has been a part of Yahoos web development community. In 2005, he joined the newly formed YUI team where he serves as an engineering manager. In a few short years, YUI has come to underpin some of the most trafficked websites in the world, including among many others Yahoo's front page, Yahoo Mail, My Yahoo, and Yahoo Finance properties. Eric has led the effort to make YUI the best-documented open-source JavaScript library and founded the YUI Theater to help provide worldwide access to many of the great events and speakers who come to Yahoo from around the world of web development.

Presentations

YUI: A Foundation for Rich Web Experiences at Yahoo and Beyond

Yahoo! released the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI) as a free, open-source JavaScript and CSS library eighteen months ago along with a commitment to the developer community: We'll share with you our best frontend tools, engage with you about how they're built and why, and we'll document them fully. In that short time, YUI has become one of the best-regarded frontend libraries and has been adopted by individuals on their blogs, startups who are going all-in with YUI as the foundation of their frontend architecture, and Fortune 500 companies using YUI as a trusted, tested, long-view toolkit for creating great user-experiences on the web.

In this session, we'll look closely at the state of YUI today:

1. How is YUI organized around the challenges of CSS and JavaScript as they manifest in rich web applications?
2. What problems does YUI solve?
3. What does YUI offer as a foundation for your own development?
4. How can you deploy YUI to best effect with respect to accessibility, performance, and scalability?

Throughout, we'll look at specific examples with code and hear from the developers behind YUI as well as implementers who are using YUI to build their businesses. You'll leave with a deep understanding of what YUI is, what its development philosophies are, and whether it's a good choice for your own projects.

Featured Sessions

Deconstructing Prototype

by Nathaniel Schutta
By now, most developers have (re)discovered the much maligned JavaScript language and the plethora of top notch libraries have helped make this grey b

Data Integration Part I : Beyond Cutesy Mashups

by Brian Sletten
Ever since we started doing relational joins, we've looked for ways to tie data together. When all we had were databases, our integration strategies w

Debugging Ajax

by Venkat Subramaniam
Developing Ajax applications is a lot of fun, up until things stop working. In addition to the general programming complexities, you need to deal wit

Managing Client State Across Domains

by Ron Bodkin
Rich Web apps often need to combine information from different DNS domains, though needs vary from visual mash-ups to deep integration.

Ajax Performance Analysis: Employing the Latest Tools to Get the Job Done

by Ryan Breen
Ajax continues to raise user expectations for interactivity and performance, and developers are increasingly treating Ajax as a must-have component of

JavaScript: The Good Parts

by Douglas Crockford
Hidden deep inside of JavaScript is an elegantly beautiful programming language.

KEYNOTE - The State of Ajax

by Douglas Crockford
With Ajax, a name was given to immediately interactive distributed applications, and the focus of innovation has moved from the browser makers to the

Ajax development with the Yahoo! UI Library and Grails

by Scott Davis
Yahoo! is a company that eats its own dog food. They open sourced the Ajax code that drives many of their own websites, including their eponymous home

KEYNOTE -Beyond Ajax

by Jesse James Garrett
Having trouble separating hype from reality? Where is the Web really headed?

Killer JavaScript Frameworks: Prototype, Script.aculo.us, and Rico

by David Geary
A spinoff of Ruby on Rails, Prototype is a JavaScript framework that makes it easy to implement Ajax functionality. Script.aculo.us and Rico are frame

Filthy Rich Clients with the Google Web Toolkit, Part I

by David Geary
The Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is truly a revolutionary framework that lets you develop Ajaxified web applications without knowing anything about Ajax o

Featured Speakers

David Verba

CTO of Emmett Labs

David Verba is the Technology Advisor for Adaptive Path and the Chief Technical Officer of Emmett Labs. His many years of technical leadership and architecture experience cover a broad range of projects and strategies, including Sun, Java, Oracle, and a variety of open source technologies. David served as Director of Technology for WholePeople.com, a large e-commerce initiative by Whole Foods, Inc., and was a core..More »

Steve Souders

Author of "High Performance Web Sites"

Steve works at Google on Web performance and open source initiatives. His book, High Performance Web Sites, explains his best practices for performance along with the research and real-world results behind them. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug. Steve previously worked at Yahoo! as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, where he blogged about Web performance on Yahoo! Developer ..More »

Venkat Subramaniam

Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with agile practices on their software projects, and speaks frequently at international conferences and user groups. Venkat is also an adjunct faculty and teaches CS courses remotely at the University of Houston...More »

Nate Grover

Javascript enthusiast

Nate Grover has spent nearly a decade building rich, dynamic web interfaces, including Ajax-style components on platforms where it should not have been attempted but somehow they worked anyway. In 2004 he founded his own consultancy Simple Dynamics, specializing in building rich-client interfaces. Nate enjoys camping with his sons who are not yet old enough to apprecia..More »

Jesse James Garrett

Father of Ajax, Adaptive Path

Jesse James Garrett is the Director of User Experience Strategy and a founding partner of Adaptive Path, the world's premier user experience consulting company. He is author of The Elements of User Experience (New Riders), and is recognized as a pioneer in the field of information architecture. Jesse's clients include AT&T, Intel, Crayola, Hewlett-Packard, Motorola, and National Public Radio. Since starting in the In..More »

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