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A Couple of Links and Random Thoughts, Dropped on You Out of the Blue

I haven’t shared random bits of Internet with you for months. That changes right now.

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Books 2008 #11 JavaScript: The Good Parts

JavaScript: The Good Parts: I have to say I was somewhat disappointed with this book from Douglas Crockford, one of the leading voices in the JavaScript community. I normally enjoy Crockford’s in-depth, direct style, but in this book it’s so … Continue reading

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Books 2008 #3 Pro JavaScript Design Patterns

Pro JavaScript Design Patterns An excellent book. There are plenty of takeaways from this intense examination of Object Oriented programming in JavaScript. I haven’t worked on a project large enough to really benefit from OO JavaScript in the overall (classes/inheritance, … Continue reading

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Books 2008 #1 Pro JavaScript Techniques

Pro JavaScript Techniques (Pro) Reading this book I finally understand why I don’t really immediately grasp JQuery code. Resig’s doesn’t use verbs for his function names. Instead of something like getElementsByClass(), he uses something like class(). I like verbs in … Continue reading

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Books 2007 #14 PPK on JavaScript

ppk on JavaScript, 1/e (VOICES) Another excellent introductory book. I got this mostly as a way of thanking Pete Paul Koch for all of his invaluable work over the years at quirksmode.org, but reading it was still a worthy way … Continue reading

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