Category Archives: development

@media Session 9

The Why and Which of JavaScript Libraries John Resig took us through various scenarios when you write JavaScript: Plug & Play: Drop in a widget, little or no JavaScript knowledge required, just customise some options and go – no flexibility … Continue reading

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@media Session 8

Building on the Shoulders of Giants Jonathan Snook Culture We come from a culture where developers tend to like to reinvent the wheel, whereas designers like to reuse. If, as developers, we want to use components of others’ work (under … Continue reading

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@media Session 7

Professional Front-End Engineering Nate Koechley Nate began by giving us a bit of historical context to the way Yahoo! has evolved over the years. He then covered topics such as Yahoo’s server architecture, graded browser support [see below], progressive enhancement, … Continue reading

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@media Session 4

Content Management Without the Killing Drew McLellan Intro Tools should be as simple as possible, but no simpler. Don’t overcomplicate things! CMS required if you need to repurpose content (eg for RSS) and have a lot of aggregated content. Need … Continue reading

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@media Session 3

Getting Your Hands Dirty With HTML5 James Graham / Lachlan Hunt What can you do with it now, what in the future? Intro Next iteration of HTML spec. Long overdue for overhaul. What are we trying to achieve? Do things … Continue reading

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