November 4th, 2009
Today the YUI Team announced the little project I have been working on for the last couple of months. The YUI 3 Gallery.
So I figured I would write a little post to show a few of the “hidden” features of the Gallery and how you can use them.
JS Lint:
Every module that we push to the CDN has to go through our build system that uses the YUI Builder Tool. The Builder concatenates files, then compresses them with YUICompressor and runs JSLint on them a couple of times. We include this output on every build, so you as the end-user can see that output and use it to determine if you want to use the module in your application. If you look at my YQL Module and click the link for the Build Tag (Which is the stamp we give each CDN push), you will see the code that is required to load this module on your page. Just below that you can see a link called “[Show Build Output]“. Clicking that link will show you the raw output generated by the build system.
Loader
Some people have asked why they have to include the config in their YUI instance, to make a Gallery item work.
The short answer is: We didn’t want to release a YUI 3.0.1 just to add a couple of lines to one file.
The longer answer is: When we release YUI 3.1.0, this will be built into the Loader module. And it will be done for you automatically. Since the files are hosted on the CDN, but are not in the same directory as the YUI files are, we had to modify Loader to know about Gallery modules and make it smart enough to change directories to use the CDN.
However, I have built an API into the Gallery to help with this.
This example shows how you can load a single js file from YUILibrary.com and plug it into your YUI instance and have access to all the gallery modules that are currently on the CDN.
API
The Gallery was designed with a pretty robust API exposed to help developers and users get the most out of the data inside the Gallery.
Here is the list of valid API endpoints:
Command Line
Last, but not least, my yui-git command line tool has support for the Gallery now.
You can query all the items in the Pending CDN Queue and check them out into a branch to test them before they are on the CDN.
That’s about it for now, hope you all enjoy the new Gallery & I hope to see lots of new modules in there soon.
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August 12th, 2009
A few weeks ago, the awesome GitHub crew (Chris, Tom & Scott) dropped by Yahoo! to give a tech talk. They talk about Git, GitHub, Social Coding and more. And you get to see the video before it hits YUI Theater!!
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July 23rd, 2009
Three years ago today, I posted my first YUI example to the ydn-javascript list.
Here is the message:
You can use a simple addListener like so:
YAHOO.util.Event.addListener([HTMLObject], 'contextmenu', CallBackFunction);
You can see a working example here:
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yahoo/index.html
FYI, I am also using the YAHOO.namespace in the example.
The link to that code still works 
After reading a few of the old posts I thought I would do a little data collection & here’s what I came up with. In the last 3 years:
Wow, it’s been an awesome 3 years.. Here’s to 3 more with YUI 3 !!
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May 10th, 2009
This weekend I had the privilege of attending the second Open Hack Day in London. This year I was a presenter instead of just there for user support. I have to say that it was an awesome event and I can’t wait to do it again.
I’ve uploaded the slides from my talk to SlideShare and posted the code example here.
I have to mention that one of the best parts was the band: pornophonique.de. They are a German duo that plays a guitar and a GameBoy. It’s a pretty sweet sound and so far I really like coding to it
There are tons of pics available from the event, so browse on over to flickr and check them out.
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November 23rd, 2008
If you are seeing this post, then the server move is complete 
Now that the server move is done, all my examples are now being pulled from GitHub.
So if you want to add any or update any go right ahead
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March 8th, 2008
My hosting provider is upgrading PHP on my server to 5.x tonight, hopefully all of my examples and site will continue to function.
If you notice any of my examples failing, please feel free to email me and let me know, there are 159 examples, so I’ll have a hard time checking them all 
Thanks
Dav
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August 13th, 2007
Hey all –
Today, I got to post my very first blog article over on the YUI Blog. Swing on over and take a peek..
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July 30th, 2007
I’ve been a bit busy lately and have neglected my site, so I have upgraded WordPress to the latest release.. Plus I have changed up come colors, changed the Twitter badge and added MyAvatar support to my comment pages..
Drop me a note if you see any funky after effects of the changes..
Dav
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May 24th, 2007
Hey all,
It’s been a while since I posted (I’ve been busy both personally and professionally), so please forgive me for the gap
However, I do have some good news that I wanted to share with the community.. I have been invited to the Hack Day event in London next month..
It’s going to be totally awesome!! I have never been to London, so I am really looking forward to it..
Cheers
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March 29th, 2007
The Yahoo! Developer Network released a new set of API’s today. They opened up the “Yahoo! Mail Web Service APIs“. This set of API’s is possibly the best set to ever be released..
Back in Dec I posted about my latest win at Hack Day (you can read about that here). Well, now that the API’s have been released, I can show you my winning hack
Note: This hack was built in around 12 hours and it has not been tested! The code is messy and could have been done better, but I wanted to get as much done as possible so I hacked it quite a bit!
So now on to the hack…
My hack was called “CandyGram Lite” and it was an attempt to rebuild the new Yahoo! Mail Beta with semantic markup and using the YUI tools. Not only to make it faster, but to make it work in all Grade A Browsers.
Enough of the yapping, here’s the link:
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/cglite/
You will need a Yahoo! Mail account in order to use it. If you don’t have one, get one here.
Please be gentle on my server
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