General JavaScript tutorial or video
When loading websites every millisecond counts. Social widgets should enhance a website experience and they should definitely not slow it down. We’ll walk through the unique challenges of loading social widgets such as the +1 button and how we made sure that they load as fast as possible — yes, …
In this YUIConf 2012 talk, Montie Tsai and Zordius Chen, Yahoo! mobile e-commerce engineers, discuss a mobile UI library called Bottle that features components packaged as YUI widgets for better reusability. The library is available in the YUI Gallery.
We are putting more computers in more places than ever before. Everything from washing machines to parking meters are becoming “smart”. Tom will show us how JavaScript is playing an important role in the Internet of Things. We’ll explore what the Internet of Things is and how the event driven …
Knockout.js is a JavaScript library that allows developers to create rich, responsive display and editor user interfaces with a clean underlying data model. Knockout.js enables you to declaratively bind elements against model data with two-way updates happening automatically between your UI and model.
Actor improvisation rules are a good approach to dealing with the unexpected in comedy or anything else. Error handling in JavaScript, for example. The way JavaScript deals with exceptions is already a little unpredictable. Instead of fighting that, let’s take advantage of it to create better user experiences, more powerful …
After giving a brief overview of JavaScript inheritance basics, this talk delves into advanced topics and answers questions such as the following ones: What is the difference between constructor inheritance and instance inheritance? What is the property `constructor` about? How does the `instanceof` operator really work? How does one reference …
