Tech Presentations » JavaScript http://www.techpresentations.com Blog about technical presentations, mostly related to web Fri, 09 Jan 2009 18:04:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9-rare en hourly 1 High Performance Ajax Applications http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/12/29/high-performance-ajax-applications/ http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/12/29/high-performance-ajax-applications/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:55:50 +0000 Sergey Chernyshev http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/12/29/high-performance-ajax-applications/ Very thorough overview of techniques to improve real and perceived performance of front-end heavy web applications by Julien Lecomte. Not only browser-server communication, but page rendering, JavaScript parsing, DOM manipulations, memory leaking and so on. He also mentions whole lot of tools for development and profiling.

See on TechPresentations.org: High Performance Ajax Applications

]]> http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/12/29/high-performance-ajax-applications/feed/ 0 The State of Ajax http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/11/06/the-state-of-ajax/ http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/11/06/the-state-of-ajax/#comments Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:41:44 +0000 Sergey Chernyshev http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/11/06/the-state-of-ajax/ Video presentation by Douglas Crockford about history of networked computer interfaces and AJAX being the latest development but still far from being state of the art.

See it on TechPresentations.org: The State of Ajax

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See on TechPresentations.org: JavaScript: The Good Parts

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]]> http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/10/31/ajax/feed/ 0 The JavaScript Programming Language http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/01/27/the-javascript-programming-language/ http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/01/27/the-javascript-programming-language/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 06:09:59 +0000 Sergey Chernyshev http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/01/27/the-javascript-programming-language/ This is first of three excellent presentations about JavaScript by Douglas Crockford who gives very detailed introduction to the language.

Enjoy it:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Part 4

Presentations in the series:

  1. The JavaScript Programming Language
  2. The Theory of the Dom
  3. Advanced JavaScript
]]> http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/01/27/the-javascript-programming-language/feed/ 2 Welcome to Firebug 1.0 http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/01/26/welcome-to-firebug-10/ http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/01/26/welcome-to-firebug-10/#comments Sat, 27 Jan 2007 04:57:07 +0000 Sergey Chernyshev http://www.techpresentations.com/2007/01/26/welcome-to-firebug-10/ Joe Hewitt, Netscape and Firefox developer and co-founder of mysterious Parakey project (with Blake Ross) is talking about his new Javascript debugger extension that makes a huge leap forward comparing to previous tools.
Given on January 1st, 2007 (Yahoo Video, Quicktime).

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Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Presentations in the series:

  1. The JavaScript Programming Language
  2. The Theory of the Dom
  3. Advanced JavaScript
]]> http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/27/advanced-javascript/feed/ 0 The Theory of the Dom http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/25/the-theory-of-the-dom/ http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/25/the-theory-of-the-dom/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:34:34 +0000 Sergey Chernyshev http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/25/the-theory-of-the-dom/ An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the Dom by Douglas Crockford at Yahoo! (video 1, 2, 3; ziped PPT slides).

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

Presentations in the series:

  1. The JavaScript Programming Language
  2. The Theory of the Dom
  3. Advanced JavaScript
]]> http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/25/the-theory-of-the-dom/feed/ 0 Chickenfoot http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/25/chickenfoot/ http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/25/chickenfoot/#comments Tue, 26 Dec 2006 03:18:55 +0000 Sergey Chernyshev http://www.techpresentations.com/2006/12/25/chikenfoot/ Firefox extension for quick JS development (Video).

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