Javascript the good parts Talk
Sunday, May 17th, 2009
I’m just back from phpDay 2009 in Verona, where i gave a revised edition of my “Javascript the Good Parts” talk, based on Douglas Crockford‘s great material (first edition being one i gave at PHPCon in march). It’s been a pleasure to stay there along with nice people such as Gabriele, Fullo and many others. Also I found out a growing interest in the javascript language which may end up in some sort of italian javascript focused conference or barcamp. Now that would be nice. If anyone out there would be interested in such event, feel free to e-mail me.
In the mean time, here comes a list of resources for those who want to deepen their knowledge about content of the talk:
Books
- Javascript the good parts - Kind of self explaining…where it all started. It’s slim yet dense. Some stuff is advanced.
- Javascript the definitive guide - Best reference book and more.
- Secrets of the Javascript Ninja – Upcoming Resig Book. Doomed to be good.
People
- Douglas Crockford - Senior JavaScript Architect at Yahoo! and JSON father – Listen and read EVERYTHING
- John Resig – JavaScript Evangelist for the Mozilla Corporation and jQuery author – Listen and read EVERYTHING
- Brendan Eich – Mozilla CTO and Javascript Father – Greatest historical figure
- Peter-Paul Koch – quirksmode.com – King of compatibility matters
- Steve Souders – Google employee and author of “High Performance Web Sites” – King of performance matters (together with Resig)
Videos
- YUI Theater
- YUI Theater - Douglas Crockford – The JavaScript Programming Language (4 parts)
- YUI Theater - Douglas Crockford – An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM (3 parts)
- YUI Theater – Douglas Crockford – Advanced JavaScript (3 parts)
- Youtube – Douglas Crockford – Javascript The Good Parts
- YUI Theater – John Resig – The DOM is a Mess
- Youtube – John Resig – Best Practices in Javascript Library Design
- Youtube – Google - Changes to JavaScript, Part 1: EcmaScript 5
Articles
- John Resig – Javascript Language Abstractions
- Joel Spolsky – The Law of Leaky Abstractions
- Jeff Atwood – Javascript the Lingua Franca of the Web
- John Resig – ECMAScript 5 Objects and Properties
- John Resig - ECMAScript 5 Strict Mode, JSON, and More
Reference
- Mozilla Developer Center - Best reference. Beware, it’s Firefox-oriented.
- ECMAScript 5th edition – Standard specs of “next” javascript
