YUI 3, Node.js, JSLint, Douglas Crockford Code Reviews (Changelog Interviews #46)

Adam and Wynn caught up with Adam Moore and Satyen Desai from the YUI team to talk about YUI 3, Node.js, and working with Douglas Crockford.

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Show Notes:

• YUI is the Yahoo! User Interface library, a collection of front end code goodies for JavaScript and CSS
• Follow the YUI Blog for the latest developments, such as the new 3.3.0 release
• Adam Moore and Satyen Desai are engineers on the YUI team.
• The Autocomplete widget provides a flexible, configurable, and accessible implementation of the AutoComplete design pattern.
• The DataTable widget renders columnar data into a highly customizable and fully accessible HTML table
• The Dial widget is an alternative to sliders
• The YUI Charts recently moved from Flash to JavaScript in YUI 3
• The Community developed the drag/move component
• YUI is on GitHub, fueling community involvement
• YUI Theater is a great source for JavaScript talks and all things YUI
• Douglas Crockford is the author of JSLint, the JSON spec, featured on Episode 0.2.6 from TXJS
• Nicholas C. Zakas aka @slicknet is the author of a number of JavaScript books
• Eric Miraglia is the Engineering Manager for the YUI team
• JSLint improves your JavaScript but will not spare your feelings
• Dave Glass - has a great talk about YUI + Node
• “I love async, but I can’t code like this”
• Many of the additional Node.js modules deal with parallel execution
• Adam suggests targeting features, not platform since features like touch will be on the desktop eventually.
• Satyen’s talk on YUI’s mobile strategy
• The module pattern in JavaScript
• The YUI Gallery lists discoverable components contributed by the community

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!