Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford gave the closing keynote at YUICONF 2009 last week. His talk, “The State and Future of ECMAScript,” was a detailed take on the events that Brendan Eich discussed the night before. Douglas addresses the current ECMAScript 5 proposals (coming up for vote at ECMA in December), details some [...]
Giles Bowkett (Free subscription) | 10/07/2009
YUI sits in judgement over us all. You can find multiple examples of Yahoo using the term evil as if it were an agreed-upon technical term with a firmly defined meaning. I believe it's very unwise for programmers to blur the line between opinion and fact , but this goes beyond unwise. This moves into the territory of those crazy religious fanatics who won't let their kids read Harry Potter because...
NETTUTS (Free subscription) | yesterday
Douglas Crockford. John Resig. Peter-Paul Koch. Nicolas C. Zakas. If you recognize these names, you probably know what they all have in common: they’re amazingly talented JavaScript Developers. Today, you’ll hear from all of them, in this roundup of JavaScript presentations. Be ready to stretch your brain! 1: Javascript: The Good Parts Length: 1 hour, 3 minutes Speaker: Douglas Crockford...
VKI Studios Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... in their roundup today, with 17 hours of javascript tips and tricks videos by the likes of Douglas Crockford and John Resig. Web Analytics From the Grok (or is that Brian Eisenberg now? God I don't know any more): There Is No One-Size-Fits-All Conversion Rate . We haven't cited Eric Peterson in the roundup in quite a while, but this recent post on recent changes in the analytics world...
Top Questions - Stack Overflow (Free subscription) | 10/27/2009
Hi experts, I am trying to get a better working knowledge of JavaScript. So, I have bought the book, "JavaScript the good parts" by Douglas Crockford. I am having difficulty grasping the Prototype at the moment. Everything below seems to work in my browser until I hit //PROTOTYPE Example. Can someone have a look at it to see why I cant get any output from it. (My page returns...
Yahoo! User Interface Blog (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
With YUI 2.8.0, YUI 3.0.0, and PHP Loader 1.0.0 beta 1 out the door, the team here is focused on our final big objective for the year: YUICONF2009. Brendan Eich and Douglas Crockford will be keynoting next week at our first public, YUI-focused conference. In addition to the YUI engineers presenting sessions, we’re [...]
Coding Horror (Free subscription) | 10/19/2009
... roughly what they're famous for … Frances Allen Joe Armstrong Joshua Bloch Bernie Cosell Douglas Crockford L. Peter Deutsch Brendan Eich Brad Fitzpatrick Dan Ingalls Simon Peyton Jones Donald Knuth Peter Norvig Guy Steele Ken Thompson Jamie Zawinski … I'd say that's an immediate no-hire. I would be remiss if I did not mention that the author, Peter Seibel, was directly...
K. Scott Allen (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
... and Agile Ways to Leadership. The list of great speakers include, but are in no way limited to , Douglas Crockford , Jim Coplien , Dan North , Neal Ford , Ola Bini , Tess “Debug Diag” Fernandez , Shawn Wildermuth , Julie Lerman , Stephen Bowlen , Amanda “F#” Laucher , and Bea “WPF” Stollnitz . There is also Bellware , Oren , Hanselman , and...
Robert's talk (Free subscription) | 10/13/2009
... sure that I’m glad to be the first speaker on Wednesday, because following me are JavaScript king Douglas Crockford and performance guru Steve Souders ! They have been, and are, very influential to me and it’s truly an honor to be featured on the same bill as them. Accompanying them are Piotr Walczyszyn and Nikolai Onken, who will talk about Adobe AIR respectively Business Applications...
Ian J Cottee (Free subscription) | 10/04/2009
Douglas Crockford says in Peter Seibel 's excellent Coders At Work : The place where I found that to be most effective was taking testing, sort of, to the ultimate: going to visit customers. I did some of that early in my career and that was a great experience, having to go live with a customer for a week, helping them to install a new system, and helping them to work out the problems...
