Yahoo! Developer Day Recap
By Eric MiragliaSeptember 30th, 2006
Yahoo’s first Developer Day and Open Hack Day is well underway, with the Developer Day talks and workshops done and hacking now in seriously caffeinated progress. There was big news yesterday: Yahoo! Mail — with 247 million users — announced an API, the Yahoo! Developer Network announced a new user-authentication API, and some other APIs were enhanced (my favorite: Flickr is now offering JSON).
It was a big day for the YUI developer team. Nate Koechley kicked things off in the morning with a standing-room-only crowd exploring the YUI CSS toolkit, while Todd Kloots, Adam Moore, Steven Peterson, Allen Rabinovich, and Thomas Sha followed with additional workshops. Matt Sweeney gave one of the featured talks of the afternoon, "Web 2.0: Getting It Right the Second Time" (slides available here). More than 300 developers packed the conference building at Yahoo!’s Sunnyvale headquarters for the sessions, which led up to last night’s concert by Beck on the lawn (the puppets were amazing, and there’s a funky little video that Yahoo!’s and Beck’s marketing people put together).
Many gallons of Red Bull have been consumed throughout the night, and hacks (including many using YUI) are being assembled this morning; we can’t wait to see what everyone’s cooked up when the show starts at 3 p.m.
For those who attended or who are interested in exploring some of the material the YUI team prepared for the Developer Day workshops, here are some links to lab files and presentations.
- Nate’s CSS Reset, Fonts, & Grids Workshop: PowerPoint, Lab 1, Lab 2, Lab 3
- Matt’s Animation Utility Workshop: Lab files (zip)
- Todd’s Menu Control Workshop: Lab files and presentation (zip)
- Steven’s Container Workshop: Lab files and presentation (zip)
- Adam’s Event Utility Workshop: Lab files (zip)
- Thomas’s Connection Manager Workshop: Lab files and presentation (zip)
September 30, 2006 at 2:45 pm
Do you have a link to any information on Yahoo Mail’s API? I looked for it at developer.yahoo.com and I did a Yahoo search for it and I can’t find anything. The link you provided in your post only links to Yahoo mail itself. Any more information you can provide would be great!
P.S. I’m so bummed that I wasn’t feeling up to making it to Hack Day. Hopefully next time …
October 1, 2006 at 12:57 am
It seems that the last link (Connection manager
workshop is the web2.ppt presentation.
October 1, 2006 at 8:10 am
Orestis — thanks for the note. The link has been corrected. -EM
October 2, 2006 at 1:48 pm
Hanford — I’ve updated the link in the article to point to the CNET story on the Mail API launch. Right now it’s just in preview for Hack Day attendees, but we expect a wider release of the APIs soon. Stay tuned to http://developer.yahoo.com for more on that. The CNET story, btw, is here: http://news.com.com/Yahoo+to+give+away+e-mail+code/2100-1032_3-6121552.html –Regards, EM
October 31, 2006 at 2:30 pm
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