Geek-2-Live: Finally! A YUI Book to Help Me Get a Handle on this Stuff

Friday, September 18, 2009

Finally! A YUI Book to Help Me Get a Handle on this Stuff

I am working through Dan Wellman's book Learning the Yahoo! User Interface library: Develop your next generation web applications with the YUI JavaScript development library.

The examples in it are not any better than the examples provided online for free by Yahoo!. However, the accompanying prose really helps me 'get' what is going on with the code. This means that I am finally starting to understand what I am doing with these YUI controls and am not just copying and pasting and hacking to make things work.

As much as I hate Javascript, now that I understand it a bit more, the fear and loathing is starting to diminish. And, when I'm done, I think I will have a pretty sleek Scheduling application written for ZMR.

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The sound penetrates the usual quiet of my office.

“Sandy is snoring again,” I comment to my co-worker.

My co-worker hates noise; so I’m sure he noticed the intrusion.

Sandy, another co-worker, is indeed snoring. And, while we may mind it, there’s nothing we can do about it because our boss instructed Sandy to snore.

I work for a company that produces software for sleep labs, and Sandy is actually using a snore simulator to test software loaded on a monitoring device. The software tracks things like leg movements, snoring, heart-rate, etc. In short, it tracks anything that influences how a patient sleeps.

I, on the other hand, am not paid to snore. I should be so lucky.

I am paid to write software. Luckily, I love software. I am a geek who loves playing with computers and gadgets. You won’t find me too heavily entrenched in any camp in a Mac vs Windows vs Linux debate either. I love playing with whatever is the newest out there.

I am one of those early adopters who pays a premium price for stuff like iPhones so I can be one of the first to have it. Luckily for you, I report back on my purchases so you can avoid buying things that aren’t non-geek friendly.

So, if you are in the market for a gadget, gizmo or software application, check out my reviews. I do my best to get the inforamation you need to make an informed purchase - without making you snore in the process.