Archive for the ‘Web2.0’ tag
Learn JavaScript, Straight From Architects of Web 2.0
About 40 hours of Video lectures straight from the Architects of notable Web2.0 experiences, absolutely free and ready to download. Here are my favorites to learn Java script, Lectures that you can’t miss.
The JavaScript Programming Language
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provides a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript Programming Language in this four-part video:
Advanced JavaScript
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford lectures on the nuances of the JavaScript programming language in this three-part video:
High-performance JavaScript: Why Everything You’ve Been Taught Is Wrong
Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V)
Joseph Smarr is the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc. explores the core lessons learned in the development of their apps and the details of how they’ve leveraged maximum performance from the web browser
Advancing JavaScript with Libraries
57 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible) : John Resig of Mozilla Corp., author of the popular JQuery JavaScript library, describes the role of libraries in the world of frontend engineering, the problems they solve, and the things we can learn from how developers use and think about libraries in their projects.
Maintainable JavaScript
42 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible) : Nicholas Zakas is an engineer on the team that brings you My Yahoo!, one of the most popular personalized portals on the web. In this talk, Zakas focuses on some fundamental concepts in the world of frontend engineering with an eye toward making code more maintainable.
An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford discusses the nexus between JavaScript and the browser, exploring the history of the BOM and DOM APIs and their impact on frontend engineering today. This presentation is archived in three parts:
- Part 1: 31 minutes | M4V download
- Part 2: 21 minutes | M4V download
- Part 3: 26 minutes | M4V download
- Download slides (zipped PowerPoint file)
JavaScript: The Good Stuff
40 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible) Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford keynotes the 2007 Konfabulator Developer Day at Yahoo! on June 7, 2007. In this talk, he describes his own journey from skepticism about JavaScript to a deep appreciation for its power and elegance.
High Performance Web Sites: 14 Rules for Faster Pages
37 minutes; source: Yahoo! Video (Flash) or download.yahoo.com (M4V, iPod/iPhone-compatible): Steve Souders is Yahoo’s chief peformance guru and the author of High Performance Web Sites. For the past three years, Steve has led a team investigating the root causes of poor page performance and applying the lessons learned to Yahoo!’s high-traffic, media-rich properties.
Java script and JQuery
JavaScript is a misunderstood language. While it, seemingly, doesn’t contain the libraries or abstraction of Java or the terse flexibility … all » of Scheme, it offers serious advantages to skilled developers. Combining a functional style with prototypal inheritance JavaScript is arguably the most widely deployed language of either type. Considering that virtually every computer user has an interpreter capable of running it, JavaScript serves to be one of the best languages to learn
Best Practices in Java script Library Design
This talk explores all the techniques used to build a robust, reusable, cross-platform JavaScript Library. We’ll look at how to write a solid JavaScript API, show you how to use functional programming to create contained, concise, code, and delve deep into common cross browser issues that you’ll have to solve in order to have a successful library.
John Resig is a JavaScript Evangelist, working for the Mozilla Corporation, and the author of the book ‘Pro Javascript Techniques.’ He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library and the co-designer of the FUEL JavaScript library (included in Firefox 3).
SlideShare: How easy to share your slides?
I wasn’t sure why someone want to share their slides online with public. I never had to, so far. Last week, I gave a training online and I couldn’t send handouts to all the audience as they are almost from every corner of the world. So, I want to share my presentation slides online with selective audience from my last week’s training.
One of my friends mentioned Slideshare could do. So I signed up, only to decide after a couple of minutes that Slideshare is not for me.
If you want to share your presentation selectively, SlideShare is a no-go.
If you want to just open your presentation to general public its not an issue. But if you want to selectively share your presentation with a few of your buddies privately, Slideshare is a no go. If you want to share a presentation with your friend, it requires that your friend is also a member of Slideshare. So if you want to share, you must ask your friend to signup with Slideshare and send you an email with his user id. One more web application. One more password to manage. Too much hassle.
Account Confirmation Confusion
No matter how many times I confirm, it still says, I must confirm. Either it doesn’t work or the message is there by mistake.
Hello xxxx! Your account has been created
You must confirm your email address in order to use all SlideShare features. Look in your email inbox for the email we sent you (check bulk/spam folders if you can’t find it).
Going back to Google Docs, so sweet.
All web applications talk about usability, but doesn’t look like everybody understand. If you want to share a presentation with someone, why would you force that person to become a member of your web application? Isn’t too much hassle?
I decided to go back to Google docs. The beauty of Google docs is that if you want to share any doc (document, spreadsheet or a presentation), you don’t need your friend to signup for Google docs. All you need is just an email address. So sweet.
Update 2/4/2008: Amit from Slideshare commented that private sharing via a secret URL is already available on Slideshare.net. It appears that just I couldn’t find it when I needed it. I logged in to Slideshare.net to use this feature to see how it works, I see text everywhere on Slideshare.net that explains that I can do privately share the presentations, including this new Ad that popped up when I just refreshed it. The ad says it all.
One secret URL may not help me much as I won’t be able to track who really is reviewing it, and if somebody publish that URL on their blog, it won’t be secret anymore. But, the next option is something that will work for me for now, "embed on password protected websites and intranet sites". That would give me all the protection I am looking for and give me information on who is viewing and who is not. At this point I couldn’t figure out a way to get code to embed a private slide share presentation. I will post it once I figure out.
