Last Friday I was up in Dublin at the Future of Web apps and gave my talk “Powerful Tools that You Need (and Probably Don’t Know About)”. I took FOWA as an opportunity to (re-)introduce the audience to some of the tools Yahoo offers and to brand the drive of developers to do everything by themselves instead of using already built solutions as ineffective.

The slides of my talk are available on SlideShare:

The audio of the talk is on Archive.org:

• FOWA - Things that you need and might not be aware of

The video of the talk is available on Ustream:

Here are the resources I talked about as links:

• YQL Geo Javascript library – (YQLGeo source on Github)
• Yahoo Placemaker
• Yahoo GeoPlanet
• JSON IP
• IP location tools
• W3C Geo location
• Flickr.places.findByLatLon
• YQL console
• Around you – a Geo hack
• GeoPlanet Explorer
• GooHooBi – (GooHooBi screencast)
• Winterolympics Medals
• Guardian Datablog on Winter Olympics
• CSV to Webservice
• YQL Open Table repository on GitHub
• Yahoo Design Patterns library – (and wireframes for it)
• CSS Grids Builder
• YUI
• Building quick web applications with YUI and YQL - Video

Also check the YDN blog in the next few days for a full FOWA report.