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20th MAY, LONDON – Luke Hoban gives a tour of TypeScript, a language and toolset that makes it easier to write cross-platform, application-scale JavaScript. See the SkillsCast (film, code, slides) at:http://skillsmatter.com/podcast/scala/typescript-4238/mh-7337
but sometimes, jquery can be too ambitious for your needs. jquery does a lot of work to smooth out browser quirks, but if you know you're targeting webkit, you end up downloading a lot of logic you know you'll never use. @thomasfuch's zepto.js aims to take a good deal of the lower-hanging fruit in jquery and put it in one small-footprint library.
July 14, 2009 was probably the worst day of my life. Wrote about it here: zedindex.com/blog/2010/01/f-u-09/
I forgot a stupid comma somwhere in the code... and it kept breaking on IE. With no error :|
PS: Yeah, that's my work, totally.
29th MAY, LONDON – Helen Emerson shows how to use language features like the object literal, functions as first class objects, anonymous functions, constructor functions, closures and the object prototype and really shows how they work. See the SkillsCast (film, code, slides) at: skillsmatter.com/podcast/open-source-dot-net/helen-emerso...
Impressions from the first nz.js(con); conference.javascript.org.nz/ organized by the JavaScript Society of New Zealand. javascript.org.nz/
11th APRIL, LONDON - Damjan Vujnovic shares when he decided to build mindmup.com. The two main goals, to learn cool stuff and have fun. What went right? What went wrong? What was most surprising? How did they test, monitor & troubleshoot? See the SkillsCast recording (film, code, slides) at bit.ly/16V3t3p