Bill Scott — Designing the Rich Web Experience: Principles and Patterns for Rich Interaction Design on the Web

51 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Bill Scott served as a Yahoo Ajax Evangelist and engineering manager from 2005-7. In this talk, given at nearly a dozen conferences around the world, Bill taxonomizes the rich interaction patterns that characterize the evolving web — a must-see for web designers and frontend engineers. (Slides, in Apple Keynote format, can be downloaded here [253MB].)

Peter-Paul Koch (PPK) — Fronteers: Guild of Front-End Developers

29 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

PPK is best-known as the author of the essential frontend engineering site quirksmode. In this talk, he discusses his more recent work — the formation of a professional guild for frontend engineers in Holland.

Joseph Smarr — High-performance JavaScript: Why Everything You've Been Taught Is Wrong

51 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Joseph Smarr is the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc., where he's led the engineering of Plaxo's address-book integration application. In this talk, Smarr explores the core lessons that he and his Plaxo team have learned in the development of their apps and the details of how they've leveraged maximum performance from the web browser.

Joe Hewitt — "Welcome to Firebug 1.0"

48 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) | download.yahoo.com (MP4; recommended)

Joe Hewitt is a Mozilla developer who has written software dear to the heart of all web developers, including the original Mozilla DOM Inspector. Joe's newest Mozilla tool is Firebug, an integral logging and debugging extension for Firefox that sets a new standard for its category. Joe provided a power-user tour while announcing Firebug 1.0's release on January 25, 2007, at Yahoo!. Joe is a co-founder of Parakey, Inc.

Joe Hewitt — "An Introduction to iUI"

15 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Firefox co-founder and Firebug author Joe Hewitt discusses his newest project, iUI — a JS/CSS bundle empowering rapid development of web applications for iPhone that emulate the iPhone's native visual elements and transtions. Recorded in July 2007, a few weeks after the release of the iPhone, this talk also provides an excellent early overview of the state of iPhone web development and an orientation to standards support in the iPhone implementation of Safari.

Grady Booch — "The Promise, the Limits, the Beauty of Software"

56 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Grady Booch is an IBM Fellow and one of the co-creators of UML. In this talk, he discusses the complex matrix of decisions and processes, both intentional and unintentional, that lead to the software designs and architectures upon which we increasingly rely in everyday life. This is a version of a talk originally given to the British Computer Society in honor of Alan Turing.

John Resig — "Advancing JavaScript with Libraries"

57 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

John Resig of Mozilla Corp., author of the popular JQuery JavaScript library, describes the role of libraries in the world of frontend engineering, the problems they solve, and the things we can learn from how developers use and think about libraries in their projects.

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Lars Knoll and George Staikos: "From KHTML to Webkit"

26 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video

Lars Knoll and George Staikos from the KHTML project visited Yahoo! to give a talk on the history of KHTML and Konqueror and the connection between those projects and Apple’s open-source WebKit (which was built upon KHTML and announced in January of 2003 as the foundation of Apple’s Safari browser). See the accompanying YUIBlog article for more details.

A Conversation with David Weinberger

55 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible)

Author David Weinberger speaks with Yahoo!'s Bradley Horowitz about the nature of our evolving relationship to information — a relationship that is at the heart of the growing network of web-services-dependent applications on the web.