View Me First

• JavaScript: The Good Parts (Douglas Crockford)
• The JavaScript Programming Language (Douglas Crockford)
• Writing Efficient JavaScript (Gopal Venkatesan)
• Maintainable JavaScript (Nicholas Zakas)

Read Me First

• Ajax in 10 Minutes (A little ($15) book that touches all the bases)
• JavaScript Pocket Reference (What you need to know ...)
• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide (What you want to know!)
• Ajax in Action (What you should know!)

Read Me Second

• Ajax XTech Slides (Notes)
• Happy Trails to YUI!

YUI Articles and Tutorials

• Beginning AJAX using the YUI Library (Estelle Weyl)
• An Overview of the Yahoo User Interface Library (Dan Wellman)
• Get reusable CSS at no cost from Yahoo!
• ColdFusion 8 - Tapping Into the Power of the YUI (Nathan Mische)
• Getting Started with YUI's Connection Manager in Rails (devChix)
• Top 5 JavaScript Frameworks (Justin Silverton)
• Ben Forta's Coldfusion 8 Ajax Tutorials (Ben Forta)
• YUI Blog

Zach Leatherman

• Enlarging your YUI DataTable in 30 Seconds or Less! - NEW!
• Fundamental Problem with YUI Button
• Problems with YUI DataTable
• Wash your mouth out with SOAP and the YUI Connection Manager
• YUI Button Lite
• YUI DataTable and You: Making the Marriage Work

Zach's Conservative Design Series

• Conservative Design Patterns for Form Elements
• Hierarchical Select
• Option List
• Command Line Interface
• Multiple Option List
• Hierarchical Options

Books with YUI Coverage

• Practical JavaScript, DOM Scripting and Ajax Projects (Frank Zammetti; Apr'07) Features a different JavaScript library in each chapter, including YUI. One chapter walks through the JsNotes widget, which the author has since contributed to the Yazaar project.
• Web Development Solutions: Ajax, APIs, Libraries, and Hosted Services Made Easy (Christian Heilmann, Mark 'Norm' Norman Francis; Apr'07) A sample chapter that features the YUI Menu control can be download through the YUI blog.
• Professional Ajax, 2nd Edition (Nicholas C. Zakas, Jeremy McPeak, Joe Fawcett; Mar'07) A sample chapter that features the YUI Connection Manager can be downloaded through the YUI blog.

In the Wild

Nate Koechley has been posting a series of blogs that feature sites featuring YUI.

• YUI In the Wild #2
• The Inaugural post

YUI Theatre Blogs

• JavaScript: The Good Parts (Douglas Crockford)
• Grady Booch: The Promise, the Limits, the Beauty of Software
• Nicholas Zakas: Maintainable JavaScript
• Douglas Crockford: Quality
• http://yuiblog.com/blog/2007/04/16/video-resig/Doug Geoffray: From the Mouth of a Screenreader]
• David Weinberger in Conversation with Bradley Horowitz
• John Resig: Advancing JavaScript with Libraries
• Joe Hewitt: Welcome to Firebug 1.0
• Victor Tsaran: Introduction to Screen Readers
• Browser Wars Episode II: Attack of the DOMs
• Douglas Crockford: The JavaScript Programming Language

Stuff We Use

• User Interface (YUI) Library
• YUI Group via Nabble
• Sandbox Examples
• Aptana IDE (Good)
• Komodo IDE (Better)($)
• JSLint, The JavaScript Verifier
• JSDoc - JavaScript Documentation Tool
• Writing JavaDoc Comments
• The Java API Documentation Generator
• XPath Checker for FireFox
• JSDoc Toolkit (JSDoc for Rhino)
• Selenium
• JavaScript Char Codes

Selenium Articles and Tutorials

• An Introduction to Selenium IDE (devChix)
• Automate acceptance tests with Selenium (developerWorks)
• Getting started with Selenium (Sammy Larbi)
• Selenium IDE: I'm in love (sorry Linda) (Rip's Domain)
• JavaScript Code Coverage Tool for Firebug (Zach Leatherman)
• Preview of a new Selenium Test Suite (PHP) (CakeBaker)
• Screencast of Selenium Test Suite product (ACSPropel)
• Useful tools for writing Selenium tests (Grig Gheorghiu)

Related Projects

• Anvil Business Logic Framework
• Bubbling Library
• Petstore from Square One

Similar Projects and Extensions

• Accordion Menu
• Carousel Component
• ClassAnim and HoverHijax
• Connection Manager Watcher
• Davs Rants and Random Thoughts / YUI Code Samples
• Div Swap with Fade
• Dynamic Script Loading Example
• Ext (formerly YUI Ext)
• JSAN
• PHP Upload Progress Meter
• YUI Sandbox

Specifications

• DOM Level 1
• ECMAScript Language Specification - 3rd edition (pdf)
• ECMA 357 (Dec 2005)
• HTML 4 DTD

Development Resources

• Aptana CSS and HTML References
• Core JavaScript Guide (1.5)
• Core JavaScript Reference [1.5]
• DOM Scripting Task Force
• JavaScript Char Codes
• QuirksMode by PPK
• Event Compatibility Tables
• Using JSON (JavaScript Object Notation) with Yahoo! Web Services
• JSON and Browser Security
• W3Schools HTML DOM Reference
• Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center

Design Resources

• Ajax Patterns (Mahemoff)
• Design of Sites book
• Designing Interfaces
• Functioning Form Functioning Form
• Interaction Design Patterns (Erickson)
• Patterns (van Welie)
• User Interface Design Patterns (Laakso)
• WebPatterns (Allsop)

Other JavaScript Resources

• Douglas Crockford's Wrrrld Wide Web (Cool!)
• Essential JavaScript (Patrick Hunlock)
• Professional Ajax (1st Ed)
• How Ajax began
• 26 Best ways to implement AJAX, CSS and Javascript based Tabs

Other Web Application Resources

• W3C
• Web Hypertext Application Technology Working Group

Other Recommended Resources

• The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change (Stephen R. Covey; Nov'04) (Everyone should read Covey first!
• Do you commute? Get the audio version!
• Writing Effective Use Cases (Alistair Cockburn; Jan'00)
• Test Driven Development: By Example (Kent Beck; Nov'02)
• Refactoring: Improving the Design of Existing Code (Martin Fowler; Jun'99) (The most important book since Design Patterns!)
• Code Complete (Steve McConnell, Jun'04)
• Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture (Martin Fowler, Nov'02)
• The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering (Frederick P. Brooks, Aug'95)
• The Cathedral and the Bizaar (Eric S. Raymond; Oct'99)