Christian Heilmann describes an approach to building complex web application by basing them around events, particularly around YUI's CustomEvent class.
Christian Heilmann offers us Dishy, a JavaScript REST API for talking to del.icio.us. Taking full advantage of del.icio.us' JSON format and the script element, Dishy doesn't need a server-side proxy. Its a useful helper class for easily getting information from del.icio.us.