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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →