So everyone has been breaking my back over using SlideShare to distribute my presentations – and for a good reason: It’s not open and it uses a proprietary distribution format. Don’t get me wrong, I love SlideShare, but for what I was using it for (a way to embed presentations into a blog post), I […]
Comment · Posted: November 11th, 2007
Say you want to start playing around with the new ECMAScript 4 syntax, getting a feel for the code and the features that’ll be included (which is what I’ve been doing lately). Here a short screencast that shows you some ways that you can go about doing that. Click video to begin (8:40 Minutes long, […]
Comment · Posted: November 10th, 2007
During the past two weeks I’ve given three presentations on Tamarin and ECMAScript 4. I’ve gotten a ton of great feedback, criticism, and commentary – all of which has been very helpful. » Tamarin and ECMAScript 4 Download PDF Here’s a quick re-cap of how the talks went: Ajax Experience East (The Future of JavaScript) […]
Comment · Posted: November 9th, 2007
While I was away these past couple weeks two important papers were released that detail some of the changes that are coming about in ECMAScript 4. The first is a white paper (40 pages, PDF) that paints a wide stroke, covering nearly all new features introduced in the language, to some degree or another. Probably […]
Comment · Posted: November 8th, 2007
The other week I went to the Boston iPhone Tech Talk and took a bunch of notes. I thought everyone would be interested in what they had to say as its quite relevant to Mozilla’s upcoming mobile efforts, and the browser space in general. Let me know if anything needs any, additional, clarification. Notes: There […]
Comment · Posted: November 1st, 2007
As the the ECMAScript 4 (JavaScript 2) specification comes closer to its final form, a number of aspects have, already, congealed and able to be disseminated and learned. Specifically, the bug fixes to ECMAScript 3 that are being included in ECMAScript 4 are quite refined at this point. The bug fixes to JavaScript came from […]
Comment · Posted: October 31st, 2007
I’m currently in Tokyo, getting ready to give a couple presentations on JavaScript 2/ECMAScript 4/ActionScript 4. It should be a lot of fun – this will probably be the first time that a lot of people hear about these language changes so I’m interested in getting some feedback. (I’ll be posting my “Future of JavaScript” […]
Comment · Posted: October 31st, 2007
Quickly – here’s the slides from the JavaScript Library Overview tutorial that I gave today at the Ajax Experience conference. JavaScript Library Overview This was a detail-heavy talk, please let me know if you have any questions about the libraries, I’ll attempt to clarify them as best as I can.
Comment · Posted: October 24th, 2007
