This book, released in 2008, is a must read for all that take web development seriously. It is a small book, 176 pages counting the appendices, but as Crockford warns in the preface, it is dense in its content. The author’s goal with this is to show that it is possible to write beautiful code with this misunderstood programming language and when you finish reading it, that is all you want to do.
Tag » javascript
25 Nov 2010
While I was at Oscon this year, just about every session that I attended, someone mentioned NodeJS. So when I found out there was a talk about it on the last day, I went along to discover what the buzz was all about.
10 Aug 2010
One of the most fascinating presentations I attended last OSCON (you can read my review here) was entitled Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS and Javascript by Jonathan Stark. Jonathan is a consultant for mobile applications, a frequent conference speaker and often quoted when media speaks of trends for internet and mobile.
03 Nov 2009
Would you like to work at SWAT ?
02 Nov 2009
Douglas Crockford wrote in a 2001 article that javascript was the world’s most misunderstood programming language. In another article, from 2008, he explains why: “Its obvious defects, its unfashionable programming model, intentional mispositioning at its introduction, and its ridiculous name caused it to be rejected as unworthy by most knowledgeable programmers”. And then, he recognizes: there was AJAX. And AJAX gave javascript a second chance.
