Matt Sweeney, Senior Engineer on the YUI (Yahoo! User Interface Library) team at Yahoo!, delivers a talk on best practices in frontend engineering at Yahoo!'s Developer Day/Open Hack Day, September 29, 2006. In my opinion it's a very good talk!
Jack Slocum wrote an interesting article about how to use the Yahoo! UI Extensions Library (YUI) for resizing elements in the Web . He presents code snippets and examples which show how easy it can be used.
Jason Stitt wrote an informative article about stating your ideas in 90 seconds. Imagine you're in an elevator next to a venture capitalist who could invest millions in your idea - you've 90 seconds to outline your business idea.
Michael Zhang wrote in the Folksonomy blog an interesting article about naming your Web 2.0 startup. He defined the following 7 rules for you Web 2.0 company's name:
1. Keep Length at a Minimum
2. Be Generic or Be Original
3. Encourage Word of Mouth
4. Capture the .com
5. Avoid Using Hyphens
6. Avoid Domain Hacks
7. Keep it Meaningful
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Web 2.0 is about user interface - script.aculo.us is about Web 2.0 development.
The web page says: "It provides you witheasy-to-use, cross-browser userinterface JavaScript libraries to makeyour web sites and web applications fly. What's inside? animation framework, drag and drop, Ajax controls, DOM utilities, and unit testing. It's an add-on to thef antastic Prototype framework."
script.aculo.us is used by sites such as Apple, Feedburner, Ruby on Rails, etc.
Michael Arrington from Techcrunch interviewed 14 Web 2.0 Startup CEOs and asked them their opinion about Web 2.0: Are we in a bubble? What are the business models that will work on the web today? and more...
The good thing: it's a video so lean back, listen, and relax ;-)
Real World Software Development collected a list of Web 2.0 sites starting from social bookmarking sites to real estate sites. The list is updated on a daily based on user comments. Take a look at it!
Willi Schroll und Andreas Neef wrote a good overview article about Web 2.0 - What is it all about. The article is written in German and can be found on perspektive: blau. You can probably try the English Google translation... but however, don't do it :-)
I found huge list of Ajax tutorials in the blog on Ajaxmatters. Very great overview!!
