Browser MVC with YQL and YUI

English session

The Yahoo! Query Language provides a rich and dynamic method for obtaining and manipulating data from any source or API on the internet – with YQL the internet becomes your database. Coupling the data backend of YQL with the extensive visualization and flow techniques of JavaScript through libraries such as YUI, a developer can build powerful widget and data systems using the simplified SQL syntax that YQL is based in. The marriage of YQL and JavaScript brings a robust MVC interface to the browser.

This talk will cover the core techniques within YQL, including server-side JavaScript with native E4X support for manipulating data, key / value pair data storage and the process of creating your own YQL tables for accessing web based content. Building upon this core, design concepts such as those of a Model View Controller pattern will be introduced to display methods for taking the base data and merging that with front-end libraries to build out production level applications.

Jonathan LeBlanc View speaker page

Yahoo!

Jonathan LeBlanc works with the partner integrations group in the Yahoo! Developer Network as a technology evangelist. Focusing on partner relationships and training as well as external developer integrations, Jonathan works with and promotes emerging technologies to aid in the adoption and use of new social development techniques. Jonathan works extensively with social interaction development on the web, developing new methods for using social networks to drive the ideal of an open web.