On Thursday I attended the Google Developer day 2007 event in London and overall I’d say it was worth the day out of the office.My headline excuse for going was that I’m working on a project that requires some Google Maps integration and as there was a 1.5 hours hands on workshop on it I figured it’d save me some investigation time in the office – and it turns out that I was right, so thumbs up there. Continue reading
As someone doing more and more frontend development using javascript I’m trying to shore up my knowledge a bit. For example some of the shortcut syntax I wasn’t sure about and I knew I could do with more backgound on how the language deals with objects.
With this is mind I’m half way through Douglas Crockfords (of Yahoo) “The Javascript Programming Language” which is a stand-up talk teaching Javascript to (off camera) students. I’ve watched 2 of the 4, 30 mins videos and have already found it to be well worth the time investment.
Highly recommended.
The *downloadable* videos are available at the YUI Theater; there’s also advanced version which I’ll move onto afterwards.
I’ve been using Mochikit extensively for some heavy interface development work that i’ve been doing recently.
Well I needed a ‘slider’ widget for sizing some elements on-the-fly and was hoping not to write my own. Luckily I stumbled across UI4Web which used Mochikit as a base and supplies out-of-the box a slider control, amongst others.
I had to hack it slightly to work under Mochi 1.4, but it was just a few API changes in Mochi since 1.3 that were the cause.