April 20th, 2010
I just received confirmation that one of my proposals (the YQL talk) was accepted for Open Source Bridge in Portand, Oregon from June 1-4. If you’re heading out to the conference let me know on twitter so that we can meet up at the conference.
I’m hoping to provide some live demos of YQL and build out some real use cases around using open data to build out applications. We have some great data that the community would be interested in within YQL including government data, geo targeting tables, as well as many others. Below is the presentation I will be delivering at the conference:
Title: SELECT * FROM Internet Using YQL
Link: http://opensourcebridge.org/proposals/379
Excerpt:
Treating the internet and all its sources as a database, YQL seeks to allow developers to explore government, social, api and all other external data in a standardized way. Further allowing developers to manipulate this data and mash different sources together, YQL works to open up the web and all its sources.
Description:
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. Using the simplified SQL syntax that YQL is based in, YQL seeks to open all data on the web into a standardized format. Manipulating and mashing up sources as if they were tables, YQL becomes a repository for exploring government, event, social and API data on the web.
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. Going further with the integration of the open authentication standards defined by OAuth, we’ll delve into advanced authentication techniques using this standard within YQL.
- Jonathan LeBlanc
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April 7th, 2010
The Open Source Bridge conference will be going on from June 1-4, 2010 in Portland, Oregon. This conference would be a great opportunity to explore open source development and techniques in the industry. Open Source conferences like this are very important for the promotion of open development products and pushing web standards. If you have an opportunity to make it out to this conference I would definitely suggest heading out their way.
I’ve submitted two proposals to the conference for this year:
- Jonathan LeBlanc
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February 4th, 2010
From March 10th to 12th, 2010 I will be in Montreal, Quebec (Canada) for Confoo at the Hilton Montreal Bonaventure Hotel. I’ll be presenting a few topics while I’m there:
Browser MVC with YQL and YUI
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.
The Foundations of an Application Platform
Application platforms, such as the Yahoo! Application Platform (YAP), Facebook, or Myspace, have become a core foundation of social web infrastructures. When constructing a platform to run applications, numerous layers of security and technology need to work off of each other in order to generate a secure, versatile system.
This talk will cover the core technologies behind the creation of a platform to host 3rd party applications. We will explore open technologies such as OpenID and OAuth for user verification, OpenSocial for architecture implementations, and the use of front-end security implementations such as Caja. This will explore the benefits and exploits from each of the implementations and the importance of open source technologies.
If you’re coming out to Confoo or are in the area and want to meet you send me a message. You can reach me on twitter @jcleblanc
- Jonathan LeBlanc
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January 16th, 2009
From December 14th to the 21st I was in Taipei, Taiwan for Yahoo!’s Open Asia Week. This was really a two part event week with a lot going on. I was there as a representative evangelist for YDN to speak about the Yahoo! Open Strategy as well as to do some in-depth code dives and meet some of the other properties. When I first arrived at the Yahoo! offices I was loving the decoration that they had set up on the walls…and who doesn’t love some really great wall art?
First, during the week we had a Yahoo! internal application development event. This tied in offices from Taiwan, Korea, Hong Kong and Australia, which was quite amazing to see. We were running video conferences between all of the offices during the numerous presentations on Y!OS, YAP, YQL, Blueprint, Open Mail, etc. as well as during the award ceremony and judging.
..and, in traditional Yahoo! fashion, everything gets branded with the Y bang:
On that Saturday, I had a chance to meet many external developers who had hacked on the different platforms, and gave a few back to back presentations while I was at it (slide deck attached below). There were some great presentations focusing on the Yahoo! Application Platform, and we also had one of the Wretch (yes I know – the name is lost in translation) girls there – I believe she was miss July.
View the event photos on flickr at:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/jcleblanc/sets/72157611588610596/
View the slides from the presentation:
– Jonathan LeBlanc
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December 18th, 2008
This year at Adobe Max, Yahoo! had a booth where we were showcasing some of our recent API’s, services, and basically anything we had to provide to the development community. While I was there for the first day of the show, I had to opportunity to sit down with Greg Wilson of Adobe for a small interview on what was coming from their corner to the community.
– Jonathan LeBlanc
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November 28th, 2008
The second video interview I had a chance to host at Defrag 2008 in Denver, CO was with Gnip’s CTO Jud Valeski. Gnip is an extensible messaging system that allowed companies to access, filter and integrate data more easily from web-based APIs and services.
Gnips core service architecture is one of the offerings within the new Yahoo! Application Platform, accessible through YQL (Yahoo! Query Language). This integration allows users to mashup the Gnip service with that of the Yahoo! social directory, YDN APIs and external data feeds.
– Jonathan LeBlanc
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November 26th, 2008
While I was at DEFRAG conference in Denver several weeks ago I had the opportunity to conduct a few video product interviews. One of the people I spoke with was Lloyd Hilaiel of the BrowserPlus team. We were talking about what BrowserPlus is and how it can benefit users. I’ll let the video explain for itself.
– Jonathan LeBlanc
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August 25th, 2008
Yahoo! has officially announced Open Hack Day 2008:
http://developer.yahoo.net/blogs/theater/archives/2008/08/yahoo_open_hack_day.html.
Mark September 12th and 13th on your calendars as the doors of Yahoo! open up for an all night hack-a-thon. Meet the Yahoo! developers behind your favorite products, enjoy live music, food and drinks, upcoming product announcements and get free stuff as you prove your hack abilities against your peers!
Spaces are limited so sign up now for your chance to be the best around! http://www.hackday.org/
– Jonathan LeBlanc
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