This is one of my talks at the Yahoo! Frontend Engineering summit in London and it deals with the options of cutting down the size of the YUI library components. There have been many articles and posts about this subject already but none really explained the idea of using YAHOO_config to load components on demand […]

It is quite cool to see that your feedback is being implemented in something as big as the YUI. With every release the team excels itself building new components but also fixing and changing the existing ones. Part of my job is to test the YUI for the European market (as we by default develop […]

No, I am not talking about last year’s elf yourself viral pest, but about being an Excellent Learning Facilitator or ELF. This is a training for trainers which turns a lot of your beliefs about teaching and training inside out and by doing so makes you a much better trainer. I normally don’t talk about […]

I just found my original draft of my @mediaAjax presentation. I discarded it cause it was way too long for an hour talk and I didn’t know what do ditch: | View | Upload your own Hope it is of use somehow. [tags]javascript,mistakes,development,bestpractice,webdevtrick,teamwork[/tags]

When publishing articles about JavaScript development you run into many rules set by publishers and editors. This is a great thing as it keeps us authors on our toes and makes us understand more about how much work successful publishing really is. However, it can also be terribly annoying, especially when older idioms just stick. […]