YUI Theater
Eric Ferraiuolo: YUI, Open Source, and Community (Town Hall style)
In this talk and town hall discussion from YUIConf 2012, senior YUI Engineer Eric Ferraiuolo presents his thoughts on how YUI can continue to progress with and for its community. His initial presentation sets the context for a town hall conversation where developers who use YUI share their feedback and insights.
Anthony Pipkin: Building Modules for the New Gallery
In this talk given at the YUIConf 2012, YUI engineer Tony Pipkin provides a step-by-step walkthrough of building and deploying a module to the new YUI gallery using an exciting new tool called "yogi". Tony goes over a variety of yogi functions and demonstrates how to properly assemble configuration files and setup your code to make YUI gallery submission practically effortless.
Ryan Grove: When Not to Use YUI
In this talk at YUIConf 2012, a SmugMug sorcerer and former YUI engineer Ryan Grove provides code samples and real-world anecdotes to illustrate how to decide when to use YUI, when to use vanilla JavaScript, when to consider other libraries, and what the tradeoffs are in terms of performance and maintainability. Ryan's advice ranges from simple rules of thumb to more nuanced discussion of complex architectural decisions, with examples drawn from his time working on YUI at Yahoo! and using YUI at SmugMug.
Slides: https://speakerdeck.com/yaypie/when-not-to-use-yui
Jeff Conniff and Tilo Mitra: The Future of YUI CSS
In this two-part talk from YUIConf 2012, the YUI team visual design guru Jeff Conniff and frontend engineer Tilo Mitra discuss the upcoming exciting additions to the YUI library CSS offerings. In the first part of the talk, Jeff talks about skinning YUI widgets and showcases unique new tools for effortlessly building coordinated color schemes and matching theme sets. Tilo Mitra follows with a discussion of Responsive Grids, a utility built on top of YUI Grids that allows for creating flexible layouts for any screen size.
What's the deal with _buildCfg?
YUI engineers Satyen Desai and Eric Ferraiuolo talk with SmugMuggers Lee Shepherd and Luke Smith about the gritty details of use `Y.Base.create()` in advanced ways. During the discussion we determined that there's a bug and some possible enhancements to make it easier for component developers to alias static properties onto subclasses.
Reviewing Ryan's Y.Template.Micro Pull Request - Part 2
This is part 2 of 2 where Eric and Ryan continue talking (after the G+ Hangout crash) about Ryan's Pull Request which adds Y.Template.Micro:
https://github.com/yui/yui3/pull/230