I gave a talk, recently, at @Media Ajax on jQuery (and a similar one at the Ajax Experience in Boston). I covered a broad amount of information (all the way from the absolute basics up to building and using plugins). » Building Interactive Prototypes with jQuery Download PDF Here are the files mentioned in the […]
Comment · Posted: November 29th, 2007
So I did a little bit of digging and I’ve pulled together something fun: I call it “The World of ECMAScript“. (Released under the GPL v2 [SVG]) It’s a full map detailing everything that exists within the world of ECMAScript (with JavaScript, ActionScript, and JScript being its most-famous implementations). Right now I’m only showing things […]
Comment · Posted: November 14th, 2007
In a side project that I’ve been working on I built a quick-and-dirty function for doing simple method overloading. For those of you who aren’t familiar with, it’s just a way of mapping a single function call to multiple functions based upon the arguments they accept. Here’s the function in question: and here is how […]
Comment · Posted: November 13th, 2007
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
