I’ve read Hello HTML5 (or as much of it as is finished), and Mark Pilgrim’s excellent Dive Into HTML5. Time to give this a go… I now have a repository on GitHub for a simple form filling application making use of the local storage and offline application APIs. As of writing, I’m still feeling my [...]
While writing the about the book Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja, I came to a realization. OOP languages help in understanding JavaScript initially, but are damaging in the long term. Because the concepts from Java, C#, etc. are close to the concepts in JavaScript, they give a developer a ‘leg up’ when starting to understand [...]
I’m reading Secrets of the Javascript Ninja by John Resig. I’d strongly recommend to most developers who do anything with the web that they should read this book. To be more precise… Developers who need to read this book: Anyone who has written basic JavaScript, but feels a little uncertainty about the phrases ‘closure’ or [...]