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YUI PHP Loader Print E-mail
Written by Chad Auld   
Nov 06, 2009 at 01:46 AM

Last week I gave on talk at YUIConf, the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI Library) conference, about the recently released YUI PHP Loader.  This is a YUI component that I co-authored with Adam Moore from the YUI Team.  It is a server-side utility that allows you to load specific YUI components and their dependencies into your page via PHP. YUI PHP Loader can operate as a holistic solution by loading all of your necessary YUI components, or it can be used to add one or more components to a page on which some YUI content already exists.

The video from my talk is embedded below.  The code is open source and you can find it on github here - http://github.com/yui/phploader/.
Mockingbird - Related Tweet Widget Print E-mail
Written by Chad Auld   
Jul 11, 2009 at 06:06 AM

I put together a new JavaScript Twitter widget today called Mockingbird.  Mockingbird displays related tweets based on the content of the page it lives on.  How does it work?

  1. Mockingbird uses YQL to get the contents of the web page that it lives on
  2. The page content is them passed to the Yahoo! Term Extraction Web Service
  3. The top 3 page keyword terms are then used to to construct a search against Twitter
  4. The JavaScript makes heavy use of the Yahoo! User Interface library, YUI

The code is open source (MIT) and available on Github.  Here is a live demo.  Feedback is welcome.
Sideline: Adobe AIR + YUI + Twitter Search Print E-mail
Written by Chad Auld   
Mar 31, 2009 at 06:24 PM

I've been working on a new project, Sideline, for Yahoo! over the last several months.  What started off as a small side project quickly took on a life of its own.  Sideline is an Adobe® AIR™ desktop application that allows advanced searching and monitoring of the Twitter public timeline.  It makes use of the Yahoo! User Interface library (YUI) and demonstrates how YUI can be an effective JavaScript framework even outside the standard browsing environment.  Here is an article I did on the YUIBlog which goes into more detail on the product and on using YUI within the AIR environment in general.  Rather than retell the story I recommend you have a look over there.  I'll do a follow-up post about AIR and memory usage in an upcoming post.

The code is open source under the BSD license.  You can find the github branch here.  Enjoy and happy forking!

UPDATE: Here is a short video interview I did for the Yahoo Developer Network (YDN) about the development of Sideline.
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