I just came back from giving my first talk in Taiwan and I have to say it seemed to have worked out well. The room was packed and people asked very good questions afterwards.

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• Download the slides The road to professional web development – PDF 11MB

In the slides I covered the history of web development, what we did wrong and what we should avoid in the future. I also covered the YUI and how it embodies some of the priniciples great web development is based on.

Update: Liang-Bin Hsueh posted an audio recording of the talk missing only the first five minutes.

• Nicole Sullivan has the complete story on reflows and repaints of CSS and how they slow down your JavaScript
• Check out the real manly tetris for the wide screen but bring some time (link fixed, thanks Jessica Bridges)
• A real honest developer CV
• A list of the top 500 worst passwords
• Google playing with search enhancements, the Wonder Wheel experiment – not sure about that one
• A wonderfully juvenile way to deface your parent’s mansion 60 foot willie
• Enabled by Design is live!
• A good introduction to SWF Flash vulnerabilities and how to avoid them
• A nice (German) blog post explaining how to use YQL and YUI to restyle a web site
• Dean Edwards talking about Callbacks vs. Events
• Me finding a new source of fun at conferences, Micnosing

• SlideShare has released version 2.0 of their API – win!
• BBC’s Good Food really has the most amazingly clever and complex recipes
• The “Blog” of “Unnecessary” Quotation Marks – Aggravate’s and annoy’s “that”
• YouTube now have inaugural IRC office hours which is cool, but Mozilla has Triage Call phone conferences
• The Yahoo Developer Network partnered with Skills Matter to deliver free tech talks every first Tuesday of the month cunningly dubbed “YDN Tuesdays”. First one will be on the 3rd with James Broad talking about PHP, oAuth and Web Services
• YUI is now available on GitHub
• Having had a lot of very positive chats with colleagues after the all-hands yesterday. Our new CEO Carol Bartz managed to impress me with a no-nonsense introduction with very clear ideas and no fluff whatsoever. For the record, I hate all-hands.

To bring some positive effects into this world, here are a few things that made me happy this morning (TTMMHTM):

• YUI is now available on Git: http://github.com/yui
• The interview with Dan Rubin and me after Webmaster Jam session in Atlanta is out: Designing Accessible Websites
• YUI released the tool that creates the YUI API Docs
• Todd Kloots spilled the beans on Developing Accessible widgets with ARIA
• The SearchMonkey team shows you how to find RDF and Microformats information using Yahoo Search

Is this sharing of happiness useful?

I am right now in Bucharest, Romania, preparing my slides for the Geek Meet in Craiova tonight. Yesterday I went to the University here to introduce the students to the wonders of YUI. This is just a quick post to give you the slides.

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More tonight.