YUI Theater — Douglas Crockford: "Crockford on JavaScript — Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript" (90 min.)
By YUI TeamFebruary 9, 2010
Last Friday, Yahoo!'s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford presented the second installment of his Crockford on JavaScript lecture series. In Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript, Douglas surveys the JavaScript language, providing a critical reading of its core features — including new features from ES5.
A few tickets remain for the upcoming three events — visit the Crockford on JavaScript series page for RSVP information.
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- Douglas Crockford: Crockford on JavaScript -- Volume 1: The Early Years — Douglas Crockford puts the JavaScript programming language in its proper historical context, tracing the language's structure and conventions (and some of its quirks) back to their roots in the early decades of computer science.
- Christian Heilmann: YQL and YUI: Building Blocks for Quick Applications — The Yahoo! Developer Network's international evangelist Christian Heilmann discusses his philosophy for creating fast, powerful, compelling applications using the Yahoo Query Language (YQL) and the Yahoo User Interface Library (YUI).
- John Resig: Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4 — John Resig of Mozilla, creator of the popular jQuery JavaScript library, reviews options for testing and performance analysis in JavaScript and previews the significant changes coming soon in jQuery 1.4.
- Luke Smith: Events Evolved — YUI engineer Luke Smith provides a deep introduction to the YUI 3 event system including its support for DOM events, event delegation, synthetic events, and custom events.