In this video tutorial, Eran Stern continue to show you how he designed the 3D Titles for his DVD Promo using Zaxwerks Invigorator Pro and how the final composite was made.

Bento Essential Training

Bento Essential Training

In this video tutorial, Eran Stern takes you behind the scenes and show you how he created the background animation for his DVD Promo using Trapcode 3D Stroke and Shine.

Aperture 2 Essential Training

In this podcast tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to be an AE road warrior by changing the keyboard shortcuts to account for missing keys on a laptop - such as the Ram Preview key or the Audio Preview key.

Acrobat 9 Pro Essential Training

Google, of late, has been stepping up its public contributions to the world of frontend engineering: Gears, GWT, Doctype, and Google I/O are all manifestations of this assertive public disposition. And it s no surprise that some of this engagement with the discipline stems from the hiring last year of Ajaxian cofounder Dion Almaer. You see Dion s leadership in events like I/O, but you also see his philosophy in steps like Google s hosting of major JavaScript libraries on Google s CDN not just Google s library, but a cross-section of commonly used kits are freely hosted. (Note: YUI is not on this list yet, but Dion tells us it will be soon; in the meantime, YUI is freely hosted on Yahoo s CDN.) Dion joined us at Yahoo a few weeks ago for us for a special F2E-focused tech talk about what he and his colleagues are excited about these days from front (Gears) to back (Google App Engine). As you d expect from Google, these are smart teams taking on challenging problems and delivering in a big way. Dion was kind enough to let us shoot video of his talk and share it here; thanks to Ricky Montalvo for handling the YUI Theater videography. download (m4v) In Case You Missed Some other recent videos from the YUI Theater series: Dav Glass: Rich Text Editing with YUI (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download) Julien Lecomte: High Performance Ajax Applications (YUIBlog | .m4v download) Douglas Crockford: The State of Ajax (YUIBlog | .m4v download) Nate Koechley: The YUI CSS Foundation (Yahoo! Video | .m4v download) Subscribing to YUI Theater: YUI Theater RSS feed YUI Theater on iTunes

In this podcast tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz adds to the concepts he covered in his tutorial Straight Vs. Premultiplied.

Rajat Pandit has put together a bookmarklet for YUI Logger that allows you to pop open a logger console on-demand a big convenience when you re debugging. Check out Rajat s blog and bookmarklet page for more on this project. Keep in mind that the YUI Logger Control outputs messages logged via YAHOO.log; to see full YUI debugging messages, you ll need to use the -debug version of YUI files. For example, to use the -debug version of the YUI Event Utility, use http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.5.2/build/event/event-debug.js.

In this video tutorial, Eran Stern will show you how to project text on the floor using light transmission feature in After Effects.

Joomla! 1.5 Essential Training

It s a toasty 105 degrees this evening in California what better way to cool off (and celebrate the solstice) than to dive into the wild with some of the many YUI items that have caught our eye since the last post? Nicora.net s YUI PhotoViewer: Can you ever have too many lightbox options? Check out nicora.net s YUI-based PhotoViewer Control, with a variety of flavors and built-in support for Flickr APIs. Instant Shiny Forms with Rails and YUI: That s the title of Enleitened s new tutorial that demonstrate[s] how to convert standalone Ruby on Rails forms to a YUI Dialog (hey, it’s one less page load) in only 4 easy steps. Javascript Framework Usage Among the Top 100 Websites: Royal Pingdom started some interesting discussions a few weeks back with its article exploring which JS frameworks were in use at the top 100 websites (based on Alexa and Webware data). They found Prototype, JQuery and YUI leading the way among these top sites (excluding most of Yahoo! s own mainstream properties, which all rely on YUI to some degree). The authors were quick to point out that theirs was not a scientific survey, but they noted their surprise at what the research turned up — and what it failed to turn up. (Note: YUI s popular CSS components were discluded from this survey; Mint, which also uses YUI extensively, was acknowledged for its use of MooTools.) Exploring YUI Custom Events: Speaking of Mint, Matt Snider is back with another YUI tutorial, this one using YUI Custom Events to create an Object Subscription Pattern. Using YUI CSS with Django: Over on Sofeng s Blog, Sofeng noticed that The Django Book uses YUI CSS; he worked up a tutorial to show you how to do the same in your own Django project. Learning YUI: Nathan Smith recently started work at one of my favorite alt-search-engines, Viewzi, which uses YUI. He picked up Dan Wellman s book to learn the ropes, and then he posted a nice review of some of what he s discovered as a new YUI user. Adam Moore + Douglas Crockford = Epiphany: Lenny Burdette writes on his Rule52 blog about How YUI’s event listeners changed the way I write JavaScript , bringing together insights from the sample chapter of Douglas Crockford s JavaScript: The Good Parts and the expressive power of Adam Moore s YUI Event Utility. Richard Benson s YUI Rich Text Editor Plugin for Movable Type: In Richard s words: YUI has become my new favourite Rich Text Editor and I have been implementing it left right and centre. Its extensibility, features and ease of use are unparalleled. It made sense for all these features to be available to me in Movable Type so why not package it up into a plugin too? Options include stretching the editor to fit the content automatically and disbaling use of the MT assets selection tools in favour of a simpler URL-based image chooser. Check out the plugin in the Movable Type Plugin Directory. Adding Tabs to Your WordPress Blog: Adrian Diaconescu at Rubiqube went looking for a good tabbed-content solution for his WordPress sidebar, but he couldn t find something that fully scratched the itch. His response was to deploy the YUI TabView Control, and he s written up a detailed tutorial so you can leverage his work. YUI DataTable in Grails: Marcel Overdijk recently whipped up a nice example integrating YUI DataTable in Grails. Did we miss something good? Probably so if so, let us know in the comments.

In this After Effects video tutorial, Eran Stern shows you a how to build a 3D scene using Photoshop CS3 Vanishing Point and re-light it inside After Effects.

WordPress.com 2.5 Essential Training

I sat down with Charles Jolley of Sproutit / SproutCore fame. Their has been a lot of SproutCore in the news, as it powers the new MobileMe from Apple, a very rich application built on the Open Web. Learn about the roots of the framework, how it is differ

In this After Effects podcast tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to combine several shapes to make a complex shape.

Dreamweaver and Fireworks CS4 Beta New Features

We sat down the with 280 North team that just released 280 Slides, an application that people call "Keynote on the Web" due to its Apple/desktop-like look and feel. The app uses a framework that the guys created, Cappuccino that uses the Objective-J language and runtime to build great looking applications.

In this video tutorial, Eran Stern shows you a how to track objects that are moving out of frame using expressions and AE motion tracker.

Douglas Kirkland: Creative Inspiration

LinkedIn uses YUI throughout their site, so I recently sat down with three of their web developers to ask them about it. With the cameras rolling I asked Chris Saccheri (Director of Web Development, and their original web developer), Steve Ganz (Principal Web Developer), and Jamie Still how YUI fits into their development process, why they chose YUI, and what it s like to work at LinkedIn (they re hiring). YUI allows LinkedIn to implement usability features that otherwise wouldn t have been possible within their regular development cycles. It helps us standardize [our code], simplifies everything, and takes care of all the cross-browsers issues so we don t need to continually fight those ourselves. Beyond those reasons, they picked YUI as their JavaScript library because there s a trust aspect there because it s from Yahoo! and is therefore robust, and has been through the grind and tested on Yahoo! s own high-traffic sites. Here s the full 10-minute video: download (m4v) As a personal fan and user of LinkedIn, I m happy and proud to know YUI is playing a small part in their continuous evolution and improvement. Thanks to Chris, Steve, Jamie and everybody at LinkedIn for taking the time to record this video! If you re using YUI and want to be featured in an upcoming Implementation Focus post on this blog, please leave a comment or send us an email. Subscribing to YUI Theater: YUI Theater RSS feed YUI Theater on iTunes Tags: linkedin,, steve, ganz,, chris, saccheri,, jamie, still,, interview,, video,, implementation, focus

In this podcast tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you a cool tip for adding depth to your Fractal Noise animations.

Illustrator CS3 for the Web

In this podcast tutorial, Creative Cow leader Aharon Rabinowitz shows you how to move beyond the Basic shape tools to create your own custom shapes.

Painter X Essential Training

In this tutorial podcast, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern enhances the 3D ribbon text composition by adding a ripple effect to the floor plus a flock of fireflies that dance around the scene.

Jason Lee wrote in with this tip: In a general session with James Gosling at JavaOne last week, Tor NetBeans Guy Norbye demoed the really nice JavaScript support that was just added to NetBeans (code completion, browser-compatibility warnings, syntax highlighting, refactoring, etc). He did so using YUI, and NetBeans did a very nice job with the code complete, etc. Really slick demo Sun has video of the session; I recommend downloading the mp4 file and queuing to 8:30 for the NetBeans section, where Norbye shows how easy it is to instantiate a YUI Rich Text Editor using the new NetBeans JavaScript support. Tags: yui, netbeans, james gosling, tor norbye, jason lee, javaone2008

Premiere Elements 4 Essential Training

In this tutorial podcast, Creative Cow Contributing Editor Eran Stern shows you a very cool way to create 3D ribbon text animation using After Effects CS3 Text tool.