May 9, 2012: The Random Link Post Returns
And now, the return of the semi-occasional link post. I’m going to try to do this at least once a week, but who knows.
If you are writing JavaScript, you should be looking at Justin Searls and his JavaScript testing tools. Justin posted the slid...
Master Space And Time With JavaScript Status 5-08
Now that the new book is public, I’m going to start doing more frequent status updates. It’s going to be weird for me, after keeping the project under wraps for so long, but I’m sure we will all get by.
When the book, shall we say, r...
Self-assessment
Here’s what I’ve got. 2 chapters introducing jQuery and Jasmine via a walkthrough of a simple piece of JavaScript functionality. 1 need to convert all my text from its current proprietary format to something more Markdown based. 1 genuinely silly conceit tying together the application that gets built in the book. And I mean that...
A Brief Announcement About A Book
So… The JavaScript book that I had contracted to do with Pragmatic will no longer be published by them. I need to be careful as I write about this. I don’t want to be defensive – I’m proud of the work I did, and I like the book I was working on. But I don’t...
Coming Soon: Getting Things Done In JavaScript
Okay, the blog has been very quiet for the last month or so. Please be polite and pretend you noticed. I’ve alluded online to a new book one or two places and now I think it’s far enough along that I can mention it in public without being too scared. Let’s do this Q&A style,...
A Proposal for ES.next Proposals
Over the past few years, I have occasionally expressed frustration (in public and private) about the process for approving new features to the next edition of ECMAScript. In short, the process is extremely academic in nature, and is peppered with inside baseball terms that make it nearly impossible for lay developers to provide feedback about...
A Proposal for ES.next Proposals
Over the past few years, I have occasionally expressed frustration (in public and private) about the process for approving new features to the next edition of ECMAScript. In short, the process is extremely academic in nature, and is peppered with inside baseball terms that make it nearly impossible for lay developers to provide feedback about...
