Posts Tagged ‘yui’
Before starting work everyday and while waiting Eclipse (PDT) to patiently build my projects, here are my favorite websites I must visit ranked in my personal order of preference :
- http://del.icio.us/popular/ – Helps me find interesting links for day-to-day work such as a new javascript framework, php tips/tricks, etc. Prefer it over digg
- http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/ – Get the latest football gossip
- http://slashdot.org/ – News for nerds
- http://www.facebook.com/ – you can add me as a friend if you want
- http://www.football365.com – funny and cool footballing news
- http://www.smashingmagazine.com/ – excellent ressource for developers and designers
- http://www.yuiblog.com – keeping up to date with my favorite javascript framework
- http://www.mauritiusblogtracker.com – what’s happening in the Mauritian blogosphere
- http://www.gizmodo.com – latest gadgets
It has been 1 month since www.orange.mu was launched and overall I’am quite satisfied with the new portal, compared to the old Servihoo one.
The main features which I’am very satisfied, from a technical point of view :
- built on bleeding edge technology (does anyone hear memcache here ;-))
- almost all pages are valid XHTML 1.0 transitional (i do mention almost here)
- CSS layout, built on the fantastic YUI CSS grids and Blueprint CSS (look ma, no tables ;-))
- heavy, very heavy use of javascript and namely the great, the fantastic and the one and only Yahoo! YUI library. 😉
- various AJAX calls via YUI Connection manager. For example taux de change on the homepage, where the info is retrieved via AJAX displayed in a cool YUI panel.
- follow Yahoo! rules for high performance websites (thanks YUI theater and Steve Souders for that). Not later than yesterday, expires headers were added to javascript components and a notable increase in performance has been noted. Naturally a lot is still to be done but we’re working on that.
- clean URLS
P.S I did watch Steve’s video from start to finish and I’ll recommend it to other web dev out there. The YUI theater is just great resource.
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