I think it’s well worth to give a little more emphasis around here to Yahoo!’s release of their User Interface library, after no more than a passing reference in this morning's post. Alongside this library, they also released a comprehensive resource on web development patterns: see the Yahoo! Design Pattern Library. Together, this is an invaluable addition to the open source community and personally something I welcome with wide open arms. Not that there was any shortage of Ajax development tools, but having a big player like Yahoo! opening up at least part of their Web 2.0 development arsenal is a rather welcome event in many different ways. In effect, the proverbial win-win situation.
Insightful as always - I can’t get tired of lavishing praise over his blog posts - Simon Willison has posted about this release. Despite being a Yahoo! employee he maintains an objective view of this new release with additional pointers of interest.
And finally, to accompany this, Yahoo! also launched the User Interface Blog. Cool stuff!
In other news…
- SQLAlchemy, an object-relational mapper, has had its first release after some time of active SVN development. A real alternative to SQLObject. Kevin Dangoor, TurboGears creator, has blogged about it, mentioning key differences between the two.
- MacOS X 10.4.5 is out. I’ll update next weekend. On the other hand, Apple has begun shipping the new MacBook Pro with a little courtesy: speed bumpage. Yay!
- 10 Things a Web Developer should do for the Client - if everyone developing for the web bothered with these ten often overlooked, we’d live in a better online place.
- Top 10 Things All Switchers Should Know - be sure to read this if you are planning to or have just moved into the Mac world - and not just from Windows.
Finally, a passing remark to something that’s been bothering me, to a certain degree of course, for a while. I’ve been following Jeremy Zawodny’s writings for some time now and despite respecting him a lot I can’t help feeling tired of reading his posts mentioning or linking to Google bashing articles or other blog posts. Everyone in the technological blogosphore, so to speak, knows him - he’s a key figure within Yahoo! search department - and his blog audience is huge but it strikes me as kinda lame (for lack of a better adjective) to be taking advantage of his large auditorium to throw dirt at a direct competitor. Of course, there’s all the free speech and the “stop reading if you don’t like it” rant but that’s not the point here. As an avid of all his other work-unrelated posts, I feel a bit cheated as this is something I do not see in any other important blog (maybe I’m blind or not looking hard enough?). In case you think I’m fundamentally wrong or missing some important point here, let me know.
Not that it matters. I’m just another guy out there and an humble blog writer.