Re: [FRIAM] JavaScript ecology

2009-07-22 Thread Jochen Fromm
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, a

Re: [FRIAM] JavaScript ecology

2009-07-20 Thread Owen Densmore
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 ==

Re: [FRIAM] JavaScript ecology

2009-07-18 Thread Owen Densmore
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'

Re: [FRIAM] JavaScript ecology

2009-07-17 Thread Douglas Roberts
Ooh! My kind of a comment. Gloomy, pessimistic, dark. I like it! On Fri, Jul 17, 2009 at 9:54 PM, Dale Schumacher wrote: > 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 > decisi

Re: [FRIAM] JavaScript ecology

2009-07-17 Thread Dale Schumacher
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"

[FRIAM] JavaScript ecology

2009-07-17 Thread Owen Densmore
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 D