Davs Rants and Random Thoughts

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

Hey all –

Today, I got to post my very first blog article over on the YUI Blog. Swing on over and take a peek..

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

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

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

Well it’s official, I’m joining the crew on the YUI team. Eric has posted a nice note over at the YUI Blog about it.

I have to say I’m really excited and can’t wait to start. It’s going to be an absolute honor to work with that team.

And just so everyone knows, I will not give up on anything on this site. I will still maintain and continue to post examples and various utilities dealing with the libs.

Hey All –

I have uploaded the examples that I talked about in my presentation at the Yahoo! F2E Summit on Wed.

If you want to dive in, you can see the examples here:
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/

Now I’ll try to explain them a little here:

1. Panel Tricks
This is a simple mouseover example with a panel.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example1/

Using the same technique, we use it to build more info bubbles for form inputs.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example1/solution2.php

2. AutoComplete Trickery
This example shows “another way to look” at the AutoComplete widget.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example2/

3. TabView Hacks
This example shows how to make an animated TabView in about 10 minutes.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example3/

This example takes the code from the previous and turns a normal TabView widget into a nifty “Accordion” widget.
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example3/solution2.php

4. Animation Hacks
These are just too kewl, you really need to see them. So take a look, read the source and see if you can tell what’s going on
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example4/
http://blog.davglass.com/files/yui/class/f2e/example4/solution.php

The purpose of my talk was to let everyone know that:
“You can’t judge a Widget by it’s name”

It’s a hard point to get across, I may write more about it later (if people want to know).

Hope you enjoy the examples..

Dav Glass
Originally uploaded by scarls13.

Today I gave my first public talk at Yahoo!. I think that the talk went pretty well The class was definitely full and a lot of people told me that they enjoyed it.

I will try to get the class content up on the site in the next few days, so stay tuned

While you are waiting, here are some links to a few photos on Flickr
http://flickr.com/photos/scarls13/413895519/
http://flickr.com/photos/scarls13/413895465/
http://flickr.com/photos/scarls13/413895659/in/photostream/
http://flickr.com/photos/98902891@N00/413975934/

Hey all –

I just wanted to post a note that the YUI team released a new set of tools yesterday & I am proud to say that I contributed to one of them

This is my first “real” contribution to the project and I have to say that I am pretty stoked about it…

Check out the YUI Blog Entry here

The Yahoo! Developer Site

API Documentation

Hey all –

I am relocating my site to a new host. The transfer should be transparent, but you never know

I have updated the current site to make the header bar green, so if you see the header in green then you are on the old site. If the header is still blue then you are on the new host.

Please drop me a note if you see anything that doesn’t work properly.

Thanks

Dav

Update: The server move is complete, so you should be seeing these pages from the new server..
Again, let me know if you see anything that doesn’t work.. Dav