Being Cleverly Lazy

How being lazy makes you a be2er developer.

Christian Heilmann – Web 2.0 Expo, Prague – October 2009

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I am a developer evangelist.

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Lazy:“I don’t want to do that.”

Cleverly lazy:“I don't want to do that ever   again so I do it right this Eme.”

Lazily build products:

Do the job, but are impossible to maintain.

Cleverly lazily build products:

Do the job, are easy to understand, extend and are built on a solid base.

Our job: evolving the web

To do this, we need to be free to do new things.

Problem is that as developers, we stand on our own way.

The biggest developer trap.

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Complex

Simple

Feedback

Features

The feature loop

We don't develop the web ‐ we fill it up with soluEons to the same problem all of which are half done.

This is my soluEon, and it is be2er than anybody elses, because...

Short a2enEon span.

Code wrecks are a security issue!

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Browsers suck!

Things you need to know as a web developer:★ The technologies involved★ How browsers deal with these technologies and how 

they fail to support them★ Security concerns and a2ack vectors★ Usability and accessibility of the product★ InternaEonalisaEon of our products ★ Performance concerns★ MulEple plaXorm support ★ Flexibility of the interface 

Good developers are like librarians.

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A solid foundaEon.

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Building with components.

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A good debugging environment.

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Planning for extension.

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Write documentaEon.

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h2p://developer.yahoo.com/yui/

h2p://developer.yahoo.com/ypa2erns

http://ui.jquery.com/

http://ui.jquery.com

h2p://developer.yahoo.com/yui/arEcles/skinning/

DocumentaEon.

h2p://developer.yahoo.com/yui/grids/builder/

h2p://developer.yahoo.com/yui/examples/

h2p://developer.yahoo.com/performance/

h2p://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/

Using the web.

CMS

Using APIs.

The Yahoo Query Language, or short YQL is a unified interface language to the web.

h2p://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

select {what} from {source} where {conditions} | {filters}

http://query.yahooapis.com/v1/public/yql?q={query}&format={format}

For example:

select * from geo.places where text='london,uk'

Get only the where on earth ID

select woeid from geo.places where text='london,uk'

Then mix:

select id from flickr.photos.search where woe_id in (select woeid from geo.places where text='london,uk') and license=4

Then mix:

select id from flickr.photos.search where woe_id in (select woeid from geo.places where text='london,uk') and license=4

And get all the info...

select * from flickr.photos.info where photo_id in (select id from flickr.photos.search where woe_id in (select woeid from geo.places where text='london,uk') and license=4)

http://isithackday.com/hacks/cantine/index.php?loc=covent+garden

Display the results in a few lines...

http://isithackday.com/hacks/ajaxexperience/flickrgeophotos.html

http://isithackday.com/hacks/cantine/index.php?loc=covent+garden

h2p://isithackday.com/hacks/canEne/

Or use already exisEng widgets

h2p://isithackday.com/hacks/frankfurt

Learn YQL by doing

http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/console/

Any data will do...

select * from

atomcsvfeedhtmljsonmicroformatsrssxml

Any data will do...

http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~joy/fun/jokes/TV.html

http://isithackday.com/hacks/scraping-with-yql/

http://github.com/spullara/yql-tables/tree/master

Christian Heilmann

http://wait-till-i.com

http://developer-evangelism.com

http://twitter.com/codepo8

Thanks!

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