Greenpeace [link:http://www.greenpeace.org/apple/,released a web site targeted at Apple] to make the company use more eco-friendly materials, create a greener Apple or even offer [link:http://www.dell.com/recycle,recycling facilities like Dell does].

Let’s see if they get sued for using that menu.

During a substandards meeting. I am really really down and annoyed about this, especially as I had half a chapter of the new book and a lot of photos on it that were not on flickr yet. I was also really annoyed that the police expects you to go to the next police station to report things like that yourself as “there are not enough policemen in the area”. The pub is in Covent Garden. If you see someone with a T43 IBM Thinkpad with a “Do you flickr” and a Creative Commons Sticker, just punch him and bring him here.

Yahoo! Sunnyvale is hosting a [link:http://hackday.org/,Hack Day] on Friday and Saturday (29th/30th of September 2006).

It is a great opportunity to get to know the people behind Yahoo! products and get in-depth training about the [link:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui,YUI] and the other APIs. [link:http://yuiblog.com/blog/2006/09/22/yahoo-devday-schedule/,Check out the schedule] to see who and what you are going to miss if you cannot go.

Sadly, I cannot go there this time, but maybe the next one…

[tags]Yahoo,hackday,training,convention,yui,javascript,api,mashups[/tags]

If you ever wondered how flexible web applications with hundreds of objects that need event handling are built, the trick behind it is called “Event Delegation”.

I didn’t come up with it, and it is nothing new either, but as some people seem to get confused when the term crops up, I’ve written a quick example why event delegation helps keeping web apps light and fast.

Following some feedback of a training session in several offices over the last few weeks, I’ve put together [link:http://icant.co.uk/sandbox/yuipanel/,some simple examples] on how to implement the [link:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/container/panel/,Yahoo! User Interface Library Panel Widget].

Of course, this cannot replace the [link:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/docs/container/YAHOO.widget.Panel.html,real documentation], which has a lot more important information, but I hope it’ll get you going and eager to learn more. I’ve implemented Panel in some products so far, and I love how easy it is. Especially the contextual positioning is a real time saver.

Enjoy, and I hope this makes things a bit easier.

[tags]webdevtrick,yui,panels,dhtml windowing[/tags]