Tag Archives: javascript

Techno-glut

Posted on March 2, 2011 by cpjobling

I’ve been gorging on new technology this week. It all started with Episode 6 of Doug Crockford’s “Crockford on JavaScript“, an excellent series of evening Yahoo! technical talks that on the history of programming and the JavaScript language that originally … Continue reading →

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YUI Library

Posted on March 12, 2010 by cpjobling

This last week or so I’ve been watching a lot of Yahoo! YUI Theatre videos on JavaScript, starting with Douglas Crockford’s excellent five-part series Crockford on JavaScript and ending yesterday with Christian Heillman’s inspiring talk on YQL and YUI. This … Continue reading →

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Interactive JavaScript Demos in Firebug

Posted on October 9, 2009 by cpjobling

Giving lectures on code is pretty tedious for both students and staff and it occured to me that more interactivity is required. So I wondered if I could liven up my JavaScript lectures by using Firebug’s JavaScript console. As you … Continue reading →

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Steve Yegge on JavaScript, Rails on Rhino and other things

Posted on January 30, 2008 by cpjobling

Back in June I blogged about Steve Yegge’s port of Ruby on Rails to Rhino (the JavaScript engine for the JVM) and his claim that JavaScript was the Next Big Language (NBL). In related news, Dion Almaer has just posted … Continue reading →

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Next Big Language (NBL)

Posted on June 26, 2007 by cpjobling

Following a link in Stefan Tilkov’s blog to another blog entry by John Lam which claims that Rails has been ported to JavaScript by Steve Yegge of Google, I came across this intriguing article by Mr Yegge published back in … Continue reading →

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