http://www.manishranade.com/blog Sun, 09 May 2010 04:33:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en During the hack day at Yahoo! I got a chance to play with Y! Firehose API. Using this api you can access the data generated by user actions on Yahoo! network and on third party sites from where user have connected to Yahoo!. Some of the third party sites are ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2010/05/08/yahoo-updates-firehose-api/ In one of our projects backend was sometimes returning a bad url for an image and we wanted a javascript way to detect if image url is good or not. (without making another request). I had a javascript function that was detecting if a particular image on the page is ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2010/03/06/image-onload-and-taking-action-if-image-fails-to-load/ Several months ago I decided to try out BOSS api to search defined set of websites. I adopted a simple script from YUI Get utility examples and tweaked it. This script searches web development reference material from well known web sites. Search can be done in different categories such as ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2009/05/10/web-developer-search-engine-using-boss/ After working in one of the internal teams at Yahoo! for one and half years, I am moving on to a different team (Universal Profiles). While I am excited about the new opportunity, I will miss my current team members. That was a great experience working in a very small ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2008/07/24/moving-under-yos/ For last two weeks I have been working on converting Scriptaculous based UI elements to YUI based elements for one of the websites. This is a fun process and I learned a lot about YUI. While doing this I was also working on improving the site performance in terms of ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2008/04/28/making-webpages-faster-reducing-response-time/ This was my first time using YUI Rich Text Editor in one of my projects. RTE is very flexible and highly customizable component of YUI Library. As a test I was trying to get simple form submit to work with RTE. There was only one textarea and one submit button ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2008/01/07/yui-rich-text-editor/ Walt Mossberg saying: The result is a polished, fairly powerful email program that I prefer to Google's much-hyped Gmail, which is undergoing an even longer gestation. It has been in beta status since April 2004. http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2007/08/30/y-mail-out-of-beta/ This was a second Hackday at Yahoo! for me. I work on one of the internal portals here at Y!. My hack was a tool which measures user’s activity on this portal. Basically it was an interesting visual interpretation of existing data. Part of this visual interpretation was developed by ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2007/07/21/hackday/ Last week I was in New York for our team offsite meeting. I was there for four days. That was such a great experience to see an amazing city for the first time. New York is so much different than other big cities in USA. It’s a very fast life. ... http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2007/06/20/first-time-in-big-apple/ Sumo wrestling match between Yahoo! co-founders David Filo and Jerry Yang. http://www.manishranade.com/blog/2007/05/09/sumo-fight-jerry-and-filo/