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YUI 2.8 Learning the Library book review

I’ve had a chance to read through the latest book on YUI, titled YUI 2.8 Learning the Library. The book was written by Daniel Barreiro and Dan Wellman, and was published by Packt Publishing. For the impatient that don’t want to read the whole review, and want to get right to the goods, here they [...]
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“YUI 2.8: Learning the Library” Free Chapter

Grab a free chapter of the latest YUI book from Packt Publishing, “YUI 2.8: Learning the Library.” The free chapter covers something we all use a lot, menus. I’m checking it out now, and suggest if you use, or are thinking about using YUI, you do the same since it’s free. I’ve been using YUI [...]
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Scoping Javascript closures in loops

It must have been something I ate, cause this is like the third post in 2 days I think! This is a quick one, but super handy to know if you don’t already. There is semi-common problem I run into, and it has to do with scoping of closures inside of loops. Lets get straight [...]
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Followup on YUI : getFirstDescendantBy()

Awhile ago I posted on an additional function for YAHOO.util.Dom called getFirstDescendantBy(). I was following the ticket submitted to the YUI Sourceforge tracker, and saw that it had been closed out, and that a new function called YAHOO.util.Dom.getElementBy() was added to fill this request. I decided to check out the newly available YUI source code [...]
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Javascript widget approaches: Singleton vs Prototype

Recently I’ve been doing some work setting up some standard javascript widgets for a web application I am working on. By widget, I’m referring to items such as javascript date pickers, tooltips, autocomplete inputs, etc. I’m building on top of YUI for this approach, but the principles I’d like to discuss are applicable to any [...]
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