Dustin Whittle (Jun 13, 2009)
Talk at Dutch PHP Conference 2009 (English - US)
Join us for a case study on using open source tools to build a platform for enterprise web applications. Find out what worked and what didn't when building scalable web applications with open source tools (apache, php/apc, mysql, memcache, symfony, yui). Learn how you can tools Yahoo! offers for developers and how your team can leverage Yahoo's Open Stack for your next web project. We will examine the components that make up Yahoo!'s open stack: developer tools (YUI), data APIs (YQL), and the application platform (YAP).
* Why open source?
* What scaling means?
* Social Search: Delicious and Answers (case studies)
* What is the Yahoo! Open Stack?
* Developer Tools - YUI, Design Patterns, Tutorials
* Data (YQL) & Social APIs - YQL, Geo, Profiles, Connections, Updates, ...
* YOS SDK for PHP
* Building an open application with symfony and YOS
* OAuth / YQL / OpenSocial
Quicklink: http://joind.in/600
Jun 15, 2009, 08:25 by mihahribar
I'm glad I attended this talk. Dustin showed some very nice things they are doing at Yahoo! and helped me confirm that I'm doing stuff with the right tools. Shame this was only a one hour session. I've been using Firebug and YSlow for ages now, just never figured to check some of the other stuff Yahoo! does, until now. Thanks Dustin!
Jun 15, 2009, 11:15 by stefan
Since I am already quite familiar with symfony and it's ways, the part about why Y! adopted symfony was less interesting. I was amazed by the amount of free data API's that are there, and will dig into those soon.
Overall, the information was very well-presented. This timeslot was the hardest choice for me, and I am very happy with my choice to see Dustin speak.
Jun 15, 2009, 18:48 by rickw
Wow! Pretty amazed also at the amount of API's now offered by Y! Will definitely be checking that out more in the coming weeks.
Jun 13, 2009, 23:21 by lifeforms
I hadn't read what this talk would be about, but I generally like what Yahoo is doing with tools, services and open source (we're a heavy user of YUI and Yslow) so I checked it out and I'm glad I did. It had a good introduction to some interesting tools and services that were new to me and I've already sent out some pointers to our 'front-end' guys. At the same time it is always refreshing to hear how other 'shops' create and run their web projects and the speaker did a good job of mashing up these topics with humor.