The First Demo

On Thursday, we got a chance to demonstrate Ballhype for a couple hundred people at the first year party for Yahoo’s user interface library. It was a good time–much more low-key than the last Yahoo event I attended, though. One of the more interesting demos was from Jeremy Gillick, who presented a YUI extension that produces some cool effects in a very clean way.

We’re still in closed beta, so it was the first real public exposure for the application, and from a technical perspective, it was a great forum. We use YUI extensively throughout the site to handle AJAX requests, auto-complete fields, drag and drop customization, calendars, tabs, and more. It’s a great library with great documentation, and I love the fact that it includes *almost* everything I need (a WYSIWYG editor is my only outstanding request).

In a panic, we printed up some temporary business cards at Kinko’s the night before the event. They ended up looking like the kind of thing you’d cut out of the side of a cereal box. As it turned out, we really didn’t need them. The demo went over reasonably well, and we got several beta invitation requests the next day, which is a good sign that the name is at least sticky.

Posted by Jason 24.Feb.07

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One Response to “The First Demo”

  1. Nate Koechley | February 26th, 2007 at 11:21 am

    Thanks again for coming and participating. I really enjoyed your demo, and am glad to hear the demo got you a few beta requests.

    Keep me posted and let me know if you’re every ready to discuss a possible Implementation Focus: http://yuiblog.com/blog/category/yui-implementations/

    thanks again,
    nate

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