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Title:

JavaScript Ninja Secrets

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Organizer:
Dmitry Baranovskiy, Atlassian
Description:
20 advanced JavaScript techniques and tips that will transform you to JavaScript ninja. It is not about Ajax, not about DOM. It is all about core JavaScript—something ignored even by experienced Ajax developers. Closures, scope, context, currying and other sugar of JavaScript.
Questions
Answered:
  1. What is loose typing? What the problem with it?
  2. null, NaN & undefined—who are they?
  3. Anonymous functions, how anonymous they are?
  4. What are Closures?
  5. What JS objects can and can't do?
  6. What the heck is prototype?
  7. What is "this" and how to deal with it?
  8. How to use context and scope for your good?
  9. What secrets "arguments" have?
Level:
Advanced
Category:
Web / Interface Design
Type:
Solo
Event:
SXSW Interactive 2009
Clive Goodinson
on 8/8/08
Intriguing.. I wish to be ninja, and I desire sweet curry.
Geoff Bowers
on 11/8/08
Ah! Javascript Ninja Info Cards - a must. http://tinyurl.com/6al34q
Nathan de Vries
on 11/8/08
Sounds like a great talk...when you peel back the abstraction libraries most people use, there's a pretty powerful language lurking beneath.
Dmitry Baranovskiy
on 12/8/08
Exactly. And while doing interview fro JS Developer position I was surprised how many people not aware of “basic” JavaScript, yet writing Ajax applications.
Dmitry Baranovskiy
on 20/8/08
Good example of what I’ve done recently would be Raphaël JavaScript Library: http://raphaeljs.com/
Joe Engel
on 22/8/08
Raphael is a really elegant API! Thanks Dmitry! Maybe I'll make it to Texas this year...
last minute
on 18/5/09
Voted! can't wait to see this one.
free online games
on 24/10/09
Sounds like a great talk...when you peel back the abstraction libraries most people use, there's a pretty powerful language lurking beneath.
iphone ringtone maker
on 13/11/09
I'd be super into learning from Kris. Dig it!
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