Yehuda Katz
Yehuda works at Engine Yard, and is full time on the Rails and Merb core teams
Presentations
Merb and Rails3: What's Next?
With the announcement that Merb will be merging into Rails3, you might have some questions about what that means for the future of Rails. Yehuda, the lead developer of the Merb project (now a Rails core team member), will talk about the work he's doing to bring modularity, performance, and a public API to Rails. The first Rails3 beta is scheduled for May of this year, so you can be one of the first to get a peek into the work the new Rails team is doing.
He will cover the key elements that differentiated Merb from Rails, and talk about how, specifically, the integration will occur. This will include: -how some new Merb features have gotten an overhaul to fit in more cleanly with the Rails ecosystem -what internal changes needed to be made in order to support a more stable plugin API -how you will be able to leverage the new focus on modularity in your applications -what does "performance" mean and the plans for optimizing Rails
Yehuda will also provide insight into the rationale behind some of the most contentious decisions that had to be made during the merge planning.
Books
by Bear Bibeault and Yehuda Katz
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A good web development framework anticipates what you need to do and makes those tasks easier and more efficient; jQuery practically reads your mind. Developers of every stripe-hobbyists and professionals alike-fall in love with jQuery the minute they've reduced 20 lines of clunky JavaScript into three lines of elegant, readable code. This new, concise JavaScript library radically simplifies how you traverse HTML documents, handle events, perform animations, and add Ajax interactions to your web pages.
jQuery in Action, like jQuery itself, is a concise tool designed to make you a more efficient and effective web developer. In a short 300 pages, this book introduces you to the jQuery programming model and guides you through the major features and techniques you'll need to be productive immediately. The book anchors each new concept in the tasks you'll tackle in day-to-day web development and offers unique lab pages where you immediately put your jQuery knowledge to work.
There are dozens of JavaScript libraries available now, with major companies like Google, Yahoo and AOL open-sourcing their in-house tools. This book shows you how jQuery stacks up against other libraries and helps you navigate interaction with other tools and frameworks.
jQuery in Action offers a rich investigation of the up-and-coming jQuery library for client-side JavaScript. This book covers all major features and capabilities in a manner focused on getting the reader up and running with jQuery from the very first sections. Web Developers reading this book will gain a deep understanding of how to use jQuery to simplify their pages and lives, as well as learn the philosophy behind writing jQuery-enhanced pages.
