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Satyam (Daniel Barreiro) wrote last week about his experience writing YUI 2.8: Learning the Library, the new YUI 2 volume now available from Packt. Packt has generously offered a few free electronic copies to YUIBlog readers. Suggest a question or tutorial you’d like to see from Satyam on a YUI 2.8-related topic as a comment [...]

The YUI contributor’s team is pleased to announce the first developer preview of the upcoming YUI 3.2.0 release. This preview provides an opportunity for developers and implementers to help test the release for potential regressions and to provide ... [More] feedback on new features and components. If you have an existing YUI implementation, please exercise [...] [Less]

YUI contributor and former Yahoo Chad Auld emailed us to tell us about his latest project with his Brilaps group — a project that has brought YUI Theater to the TV screen via Boxee. In Chad’s words: Boxee is an up-and-coming cross platform application that aims to help bring web content to the TV. [...]

The Yahoo! Flex Force is currently looking to expand our team with a few talented frontend Engineers. As part of the Flex Force team, you will have the opportunity to work on multiple strategic projects of high profile and high visibility. These positions involve being an ambassador of best practices and sharing knowledge across the [...]

For those of you that don’t subscribe to the YUI calendar or YUILibrary.com forum, the next installment of YUI: Open Hours will be tomorrow, July 21st. This time we’re going to focus on a recurring theme for YUI community contributors that are just getting started building their own modules: How to build a Widget and how [...]

About the Author: Daniel Barreiro (screen name Satyam) has been around for quite some time. The ENIAC was turned off the day before he was born, so he missed that but he hasn’t missed much since. He’s had a chance to punch cards, program 6502 chips (remember the Apple II?), own a TRS-80 and [...]

In Mobile Browser Cache Limits: Android, iOS, and webOS, I shared the results of my attempts to determine browser cache limits on Android, iOS, and webOS devices. At the end of the article, I wrote: Use these results as a starting point, but verify them yourself before you make major decisions based on assumptions about mobile [...]

Nicholas C. Zakas (@slicknet on Twitter) is the lead frontend engineer on the Yahoo! homepage, a YUI contributor, and author of Professional JavaScript for Web Developers and the newly-released, High Performance JavaScript. Base64 encoding was ... [More] originally designed to allow lossless data passing between 8-bit and 7-bit systems. The primary example of its usage is in [...] [Less]

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As always, let us know in the comments or @yuilibrary if we missed something important. YUI 3-based Alloy UI Formally Announced at Liferay Conference: From the press release: ‘As part of this effort, Liferay also announced the immediate availability of Liferay Alloy [...]