Today I stumbled upon this link from John Resig,
the creator and lead developer of jQuery:
http://ejohn.org/blog/web-workers/
-J.
FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv
Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College
lectures,
Just to help folks scratching their heads on the discussion, here is a
good list of JavaScript outside of the browser.
JavaScript (Uses_outside_web_pages) - Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Javascript#Uses_outside_web_pages
-- Owen
Sweet!
I did fail to describe what motivated the conversation to begin with:
writing sophisticated client/server/peer applications in team
programming projects.
Ones you write both the client, server and communication code. Not
pick a CMS and use it. Something big. And new. And who's
At Friam today we discussed the latest buzz about javascript and it's
renaissance in the computing world. Here are some notes folks asked
for.
Theme: Chrome, Firefox, Safari etc are building much more
sophisticated javascript implementations, including developer tools
for debugging and
Build not your house on sand.
Regrettably, I fear it is far too late for that advice.
As Crockford himself writes, there were a lot of poor implementation
decisions made in the design of JavaScript. And there are a lot of
people who've written code that relies on what he called the Awful
Parts
Ooh! My kind of a comment. Gloomy, pessimistic, dark.
I like it!
On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Dale Schumacher
dale.schumac...@gmail.comwrote:
Build not your house on sand.
Regrettably, I fear it is far too late for that advice.
As Crockford himself writes, there were a lot of poor
