Thu
Mar
24
Hanselminutes - <JavaScript and jQuery: Moving beyond Alert()/>
A podcast with Elijah Manor and Dave Ward explaining why it’s important to learn JavaScript if you use it at all (hint: study Douglass Crockford).
Stuff discussed (quickly paraphrased):
- How to go from beginner to apprentice to journeyman
- Namespace scoping (attach to an object, not the window)
- Read source code for patterns (jQuery for starters)
- Use Firebug (Firefox plugin)
- Unobtrusive JS: stop embedding code in HTML (separate)
- Example of turning 100 click handlers into 1
- ScriptLoaders to download scripts to browser asynchronously, but execute in order.
- Fragmentation, documentation, opinions - where do you go to know what to do?
- A peak into Modernizr
- Follow Paul Irish and his GitHub
