JavaScript is well on its way to become the dominant general-purpose programming language. The present looks good and the future looks even better: Many of the things that people currently complain about will be fixed by the next version of ECMAScript (code-named ECMAScript.next). We’ll also look at steps to improve …
TypeScript, a typed superset of JavaScript that compiles to idiomatic (normal) JavaScript, is designed to make it easier to write cross-platform, application scale, JavaScript that runs in any browser or in any host. It was announced recently while Anders Hejlsberg and other key members of the TypeScript team were attending …
This coding demoprovides an overview of the JavaScript fundamentals that every jQuery developer should know. Next, it shows you some of the features that make jQuery the most popular JavaScript library today.
JavaScript is one of those very powerful languages that is often misunderstood and underutilized. It is quite popular, yet there is so much more we can do with it. In this presentation we will deep dive into the capabilities and strengths of this prominent language of the web.
In the bad old days of JavaScript, our days were spent fighting through a thicket of DOM differences. These days, we’ve pretty much conquered those challenges thanks to tools such as jQuery, but our new challenge is figuring out how to adapt as more and more of our application logic …
Explore the Windows libraries for JavaScript, the toolkit developed specifically to build first-class Metro style apps using HTML. You’ll see how to define classes and namespaces, how to handle app-level features and events, how to split your app into multiple HTML file fragments and load them as your user navigates …
