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Loadtimer, Ruby trick shots, HTML 5 vs. Flash games infographic, and more…

2012-02-09T14:09:15Z

3 breakthrough ways to visualize HTML5 audio.

Ruby Trick Shots, a video of 24 Ruby tips and tricks.

HTML5 Please, lookup HTML5 and CSS3 features.

CSS border-image generator.

CSS linear gradients syntax generator.

Loadtimer, a tool to measure page load times on mobile devices.

Pears are common patterns of markup & style.

3D rose in under 1K of JavaScript.

Amazing things to do with PHP and cURL.

HTML5 vs Flash games infographic.

Hadoop Summit 2012 – Registration now open!

2012-02-08T13:18:20Z

San Jose Convention Center on on June 13-14, 2012

Hortonworks and Yahoo! are proud to host the 5th annual Hadoop Summit.

The two-day event will feature many of the thought leaders from the Apache Hadoop community who will showcase successful Hadoop use cases, share development and administration tips and tricks and educate organizations about how to leverage Apache Hadoop as a key component of their enterprise data platform.

Hadoop Summit will also be an excellent network environment for developers, architects, administrators, data analysts and vendors interested in advancing, extending or implementing Apache Hadoop.

Hadoop Summit Tracks include:

The Future of Hadoop
Deployment and Operations
Enterprise Data Architecture
Applications and Data Science
Analytics and Business Intelligence
Hadoop in Action

Interested in Speaking at Hadoop Summit. Call for papers is now open. Deadline to submit an abstract is Feb 22, 2012.

Submit your abstract>

Want a crash course on Apache Hadoop? Attend one of the companion training courses. Choose from either a two-day technical course for Java programmers: “Developing Solutions Using Apache Hadoop – HDFS and MapReduce” or a one-day course for non-Java programmers: “How Apache Hadoop Works.”

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PHP-Python-Ruby infographic, Hosting infographic, Learn Python, and more…

2012-02-09T14:09:59Z

A Photoshop PSD file parser in JavaScript for browsers and NodeJS.

An introduction to jQuery for designers.

So you found something cool on the Internet.

Web designers, what to look for in a CMS.

Infographic on hosting decisions.

Create ZIP files in JavaScript.

jQuery UI vs Kendo UI.

PHP vs. Python vs. Ruby, infographic.

Website designed to help you learn Python.

Introduction to the tools for the next generation of web applications.

CSSrefresh, automatically refresh CSS files.

The proxority principle, how to build JS games, a JS pattern collection, and more…

2012-02-02T13:24:48Z

The Proxority principle in web design.

Mac OS X Lion emulated in your browser using CSS3.

Happy Fun Coding, a site to learn to program games in JavaScript.

The wonderful calc() function in CSS.

Pretty Loaded, a gallery of preloaders.

Graphical calculator in HTML5.

10 jQuery Mobile features.

Vogar, a command line tool that attempts to boost your productivity when developing Java programs.

A JavaScript pattern and antipattern code collection.

Benefits and pitfalls of using code frameworks.

2011 Internet Stats, Command and Conquer in HTML 5, Test Driven JS development and more…

2012-01-26T12:17:50Z

Internet 2011 the year in numbers, nearly every possible Internet stat you could ever want.

Command and Conquer, recreation of the real time strategy game in HTML5 and Javascript.

Overview of CSS3 features and the basics of how to use them.

10 super useful PHP code snippets.

A good HTML5/JavaScript/CSS reference site.

Sketch in 3D with animating lines on HTML5 canvas.

A collection of pure CSS creations.

Test-Driven JavaScript development in practice.

CSSrefresh, automatically load CSS files when they change during development.

20 great sites to learn the ins and outs of video game design.

HTML 5 Cut the Rope, HTML Photoshop, and more…

2012-01-19T10:53:09Z

Ultimate CSS gradient generator.

When to use which HTML5 element.

Cut the Rope, HTML5 version and behind the scenes.

CSS image reflection With Webkit.

Photoshop simulator in HTML, CSS and jQuery works just like the real thing.

50 inspiring entrepreneur startup quotes.

GameBoy Color emulator written in JavaScript.

Fbootstrapp, a toolkit designed to kickstart development of Facebook iframe apps.

Color Thief, a script for grabbing the color palette from an image.

Lovely fireworks particles.

Build a gorgeous online presentation in CSS3 with impress.js.

iPhone4 in pure CSS3.

How to build a responsive thumbnail gallery.

Understanding the Command Design Pattern using PHP.

Scrollorama, the jQuery plugin for doing cool scrolly stuff.

The JavaScript guide to Objects, Functions, Scope, Prototypes and Closures.

Design best practices for the mobile web.

Never guess if your side bar is the right width again. Instead, use the Golden Ratio Calculator.

WebGL liquid surface experiment.

The Goldilocks approach to responsive web design.

Mobile baby steps, WebGL Nyan, designing the facebook timeline, and more…

2012-01-13T10:49:25Z

WebGL Nyan Cat.

How to take mobile baby steps if Mobile First isn't an option.

A look at responsive web design.

10 infographics about WordPress.

Introduction to designing for Windows Phone 7 and Metro. Make it snow on your website with CSS keyframe animations.

20 HTML5 sites that changed the game.

Designers behind Facebook timeline, lessons for creating a UI with soul.

10 rules to follow for popups and modal windows.

Great article on switching from Python to Node.js.

dabblet, an interactive playground for quickly testing snippets of CSS and HTML code.

Learn knockout.js in 30 minutes.

HTTP Status cats.

New Content Analysis API

2012-02-03T17:42:05Z

Today we're pleased to announce the availability of our new Content Analysis service through YQL. Content Analysis replaces Yahoo!’s popular Term Extraction service and now provides advanced content analysis on either text or a URL, leverages Yahoo!’s state of the art MLR technology to extract key terms from the content, and, more importantly, to rank them based on their overall importance to the content.

The Content Analysis Web Service detects entities/concepts, categories, and relationships within unstructured content. It ranks those detected entities/concepts by their overall relevance, resolves those if possible into Wikipedia pages, and annotates tags with relevant meta-data. For developers who publish unstructured data, Content Analysis adds substantial value by giving you a ranked vector for each document you send to the service. Armed with the key terms for each unstructured document, you can more effectively describe these pages for SEO and other indexing needs. In addition, by resolving terms to Wikipedia entities, Content Analysis allows you to connect you documents to the most robust knowledge stores powering the semantic Web. Last, with each document mapped to one or more nodes in our Yahoo! Content Taxonomy, you can create new structures for your sites which effectively group documents into all appropriate content nodes. In all, Content Analysis provides you with a robust summary of each document or URL you send to the service including key entities and key contextual terms

Please give our content analysis service a try and start enriching your content today.

We will continue to support the Term Extraction requests, but calls must be directed to our YQL table since we’ll be shutting down the non-YQL service on March 31st, 2012. The new features and MLR are supported only in the new request format.

Check out our blog post on the Y! Search blog for additional details.

Deprecation of Y! Term Extraction API – Action required by non-YQL users

2012-02-03T17:42:39Z

Today we announce the closure of our Term Extraction service on YDN, which will happen on March 31, 2012. So, you have plenty time to make changes to your applications using this service.

Term Extraction has been a part of YDN since 2006 and we are glad so many developers have found it useful over that time. As we've noted on the Term Extraction product page the closure will take place over two steps.

First, we will close access to the API in favor of access through YQL. We encourage all existing users of Term Extraction to migrate to YQL requests. If you are already using the Term Extraction API via YQL, you don't need to do anything.

We will subsequently retire Term Extraction in favor of a more advanced API, also accessed through YQL, Content Analysis API. Once you have migrated your calls to YQL, those same calls will work with Content Analysis. Content Analysis includes many features beyond Term Extraction and we hope you'll try it out today.

HTML5 Advent Calendar, Polyfilling, Game Theory 101, and more…

2012-02-03T17:43:22Z

HTML5 and CSS3 advent calendar 2011 edition.

19 creative computer animations to inspire you.

Polyfilling the HTML5 Gaps With JavaScript, slides from Addy Osmani's FITC talk.

Interactive CSS3 lighting effects.

Ember (formerly SproutCore 2.0) is a JavaScript framework for creating ambitious web applications.

HTML5 and CSS3 without guilt.

Animate.css is a bunch of cool, fun, and cross-browser animations for you to use in your projects.

Game Theory 101: Game theory made easy.

An introduction to object oriented CSS (OOCSS).

Learn almost anything for free at Khan Academy.