YUI Theater – Nate Koechley: “Professional Frontend Engineering”

By Eric MiragliaMarch 18th, 2009

Nate Koechley, one of Yahoo's original frontend engineers

Nate Koechley, one of the first frontened engineers hired at Yahoo, has spent the last eight years studying the discipline and curating some of the best ideas and practices to emerge from it here at Yahoo. As a member of the YUI team since its early days in 2005, he also helped shape the YUI library and authored its CSS components.

This YUI Theater entry captures one of the courses Nate has taught at Yahoo, “Professional Frontend Engineering.” It covers the foundations of the discipline, some of its core ideas, and some of of its best practices. If you are looking to reset your own assumptions about “web development” or “frontend work”, I know of no better place to start. If you have friends who are new to the discipline, or backend engineers transitioning to the frontend, this is also a fantastic resource to which you can point them.

7 Comments

  1. Pat Cavit said:
    March 18, 2009 at 10:43 am

    Are these slides available anywhere?

  2. Patrick Daly said:
    March 18, 2009 at 10:58 am

    This is an awesome video! I learned a lot — thanks!

  3. Maurice Perry said:
    March 19, 2009 at 10:42 am

    Greate presentation!
    Thanks a lot

  4. Sorin Stefan said:
    March 20, 2009 at 6:01 am

    Very nice. Thanks

  5. Monty Dickerson said:
    March 22, 2009 at 10:57 pm

    Reducing the CSS filters to *width, _width to target IE7&6 or just IE6 is neat.

    Slides ppt would be a nice resource to have; the one with the underused HTML elements was my favorite, which I’d like to drill myself to reduce divitis and use some of the useful and specific HTML tags like CITE.

  6. Automated Material Handling Dude said:
    July 20, 2009 at 5:54 pm

    Thanks alot!!

    Great presentation!

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