It is amazing how much easier it is these days to build pretty sweet mashups by using hosted services. Here’s a screencast of using Yahoo, Bing and Google to build a search interface in under 25 minutes without having to read any API docs or installing SDKs by using YQL:

Building a search mashup with YQL [...]

390? Wow Bill, you have been busy I am referring to the 390 screencasts that Bill Scott has published showing “captures of various sites illustrating patterns from each chapter.”

Following-up from our previous posting, we’ve got some more Ajax Experience videos. This post’s theme is JavaScript and JSON:
Advanced Animation & Physics in JavaScript with Paul Bakaus
Forget about Web standards and go way beyond the usual capabilities of Web scripting languages. Learn how to create stunning effects using canvas/svg/vml, how to control animated graphics in [...]

Thanks to the folks at Adobe, we’ve got video of pretty much every session from the Ajax Experience 2008 that we can share on-line, free of charge. We’ll release them over the next week or so in batches. What better way to spend your New Year’s holiday than curled up with a laptop learning about [...]