Yahoo! UI Library Cheatsheets
Friday, June 2nd, 2006The Yahoo! UI Library is now offering PDF Cheetsheets for download. These are must have’s if you develop with these excellent JavaScript libraries.
The Yahoo! UI Library is now offering PDF Cheetsheets for download. These are must have’s if you develop with these excellent JavaScript libraries.
Yahoo! UI Library is now offering a collection of seven web page templates that generate Grids CSS. The templates offer the the ability to nest grids of one to four columns within the content area of those templates. This provides you with more than 100 page layouts with a single CSS file at just 1.82KB. The templates and CSS have A-Grade browser support and many other great options!
The Yahoo! Buzz Game lets you put your (fantasy) money where your mouth is by buying stock in the technologies you believe will be popular and selling stock in the technologies you think will flop.
Yahoo! Developer Network is now offering a PHP Developer Center with lots of great examples of using PHP with JSON, REST and serialized PHP.
Google has provided a Add to Google button feature that can easily be integrated onto your blog or other site that offers RSS feeds. By placing an “Add to Google” button to your website your visitor will have an easier time adding you feed to their Google homepage or Google Reader. Not to be outdone, Yahoo! offers a similar feature.
The Yahoo! Developer Network has just added a JavaScript Developer Center with tonnes of great examples on how to consume Yahoo!s Web Services using JavaScript. Most noteable, is the ability to access these API’s using the REST protocol and have the results returned as JSON objects, effectively removing the need for a Web Proxy.
Searching for a fresher taste offers brilliant insight on the importance of Yahoo!s recent purchase of del.icio.us and it’s impact on the future of search and social networks.
Yahoo! recently published a whitepaper titled RSS—Crossing into the Mainstream (pdf) that summarizes a Ipsos-Insight poll that they recently commissioned. Some of the interesting findings include that awareness of RSS is quite low among Internet users with 12% of users being aware of RSS, and only 4% have knowingly used RSS. Also very interesting was the finding that 27% of Internet users consume RSS syndicated content on personalized start pages (e.g., My Yahoo!, My MSN) without knowing that RSS is the enabling technology. If you’re developing any product that uses or creates RSS, this paper is certainly worth a read.
The web development weblog has three great tutorials that will show you how to create your own customized search page using SOAP from PHP. The tutorials cover:
I checked out Yahoo! Maps and overall I was very impressed. Although at times the service was slow (but hey, it is just an early beta), the widget that allows you to see your location in a larger context I found extremely usefull for navigation.
The nicest feature though, is the fact that Yahoo! has opened up an API for GeoCoding that uses a simple REST based protocol. If you would like to try the API from PHP, a great example is available at Rasmus’ Toys Page.
