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Javascript: The Good Parts

In books, javascript on 19 March 2008 with no comments

There is perhaps no one individual who has had more impact on modern JavaScript than Doug Crockford. As such, I’m thrilled to see the Godfather has a soon-to-be-released O’reilly book, JavaScript: The Good Parts. (The Butterfly Book!)
I’m secretly hoping it’s not a regugitation of all the things he’s already said/written, regardless it’s been pre-ordered!

Top JavaScript Books of All-Time

In books, javascript, reviews on 13 February 2008 tagged books, javascript, reviews with 3 comments

5. Pro JavaScript Techniques by John Resig. John’s jQuery library is a thing of absolute beauty—the source is an example of javascript’s utter sexiness. Now, as a whole I found this book a bit disjointed, nevertheless it’s recommend because it attempts to tackle difficult subject matters like closures and event handling, and does so […]