Working in the now – video of my talk at Paris Web released
Paris Web – one of my favourite conferences last year – just “released all the videos of the presentations”:http://www.paris-web.fr/2008/telechargements/. Most of the presentations are in French, but mine is in English:
- “Download and watch the presentation on SlideShare”:http://www.slideshare.net/cheilmann/working-in-the-now-presentation
In the talk I advocated re-using components and systems we already have to work faster, deliver better and have less hardware and software overhead in doing so.
These are:
- “Design Patterns”:http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns, “Design Pattern Stencils”:http://developer.yahoo.com/ypatterns/wireframes/
- CSS frameworks: “YUI grids”:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/, “YAML”:http://www.yaml.de/en/, “960″:http://960.gs/, “Blueprint”:http://code.google.com/p/blueprintcss/
- “Exceptional Performance Tips”:http://developer.yahoo.com/performance/, “YSlow”:http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/, “Hammerhead”:http://stevesouders.com/hammerhead/
- “Fix your picture sizes with smushit.com”:http://smushit.com
- Page widgets (things that HTML doesn’t have): “YUI”:http://developer.yahoo.com/yui/, “jQuery UI”:http://ui.jquery.com
- “Build an own search engine with Yahoo BOSS“:http://developer.yahoo.com/search/boss/
- “YouTube API“:http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/
- “Amazon S3 for storage”:http://aws.amazon.com/s3/
- “Batch video conversion with Amazon S3 and EC2“:http://developer.amazonwebservices.com/connect/entry.jspa?externalID=691
- “Captioning on a shoestring with CastingWords”:http://castingwords.com/
- “Mechanical Turk”:https://www.mturk.com/mturk/welcome
Tags: downturn, economy, efficiesncy, ihadtovent, layoffs, maintainability, recycle, reuse
