I find it hard to agree with any part of this. To me, it shows a deep misunderstanding of the web—treating the web as just another platform, without understanding what makes it so special.
I think I may have found my polar opposite.
The hilarious obsession with file size is the start of my frustrations with the web community.
A classic of writing on the fundamental differences between programming languages.
A great short talk from Clare about Code Club.
And this is why Code Club is such a great initiative.
Let’s spend the day after Full Frontal programming flying robots with JavaScript. Clearleft is sponsoring a drone; want to play with it?
Does Zed Shaw look like a bitch to you?
I said does Zed Shaw look like a bitch to you?
It’s a long one, and it’s kind of meta, but if you have any interest in the idea of programming, this in-depth knowledge bomb from Bret Victor is well worth your time.
This looks great! It’s a CC-licensed book by Cody Lindley (whose work I’ve admired for many years) aimed at teaching DOM Scripting for modern browsers. You can read the whole thing online or wait for the paper version from O’Reilly.
If all your JavaScript currently consists of writing jQuery plugins, I highly recommend you read this.
This post is ten years old, but I think it might still be the best attempt to demarcate a difference between web “sites” and web “apps”: think of them as stories and tools.
It’s also remarkably prescient about the need for an effort exactly like HTML5:
A widely-distributed, standards-compliant, browser and platform-independent library of functions that would perform the basic user interface functions for a web-based tool, relying on the server side only for the logic and data sourcing.
I’m going to be attending Seb’s CreativeJS and HTML5 course in Brighton on September 13th and 14th …and I strongly suspect that it’s going to be great.
This is a rather lovely way to show that in JavaScript, as in Perl, there’s always more than one way to skin a cat (in whatever idiom you prefer).
This is rather marvellous: a book review from Robin Sloan that requires you to type commands into a JavaScript console.
It’s kinda nuts that in the space of just a few months, Code Club has gone from being an idea by Clare and Linda into something with an all-star promo video.
A fantastic taste of what you can expect in Seb’s Creative Coding workshop.
This is an excellent idea: get a whole bunch of after-school code clubs going to teach kids how to code in Scratch.
A genuinely amusing alternative history of programming languages.
This cracked me up. There are two possibilities: either this is really is very funny or I am very nerdy.
A look back at some of the best code for journalism over the past year.
Aral takes the words right out of my mouth. This is pretty much exactly how I feel about Dart.
Linguistics and programming collide in this paper from the 18th Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, University of Sussex, September 2006: Lakoffian analysis of the mental models of Java programmers.
All of the most irritating uses of JavaScript gathered together into one library.
Rebecca Murphey on the continuing evolution and maturity of the JavaScript world.
In which I answer some questions about the making of Huffduffer.
Kenny Meyers on the ubiquity of JavaScript.
John Allsopp calls bullshit on the notion that native apps are intrinsically better than web apps. I concur.
This looks like it could be a handy little tool for creating test cases with HTML, CSS and JavaScript.
A great write-up of the latest additions to the Guardian's Open Platform API including a lukewarm assessment of Semantic Web technologies like RDF.
An inspiring presentation by Tom Armitage on the value of open data.
This looks like an excellent event: learn about programming without being a programmer.
A free-as-in-beer book on jQuery from Rebecca Murphey, released under a Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike license.
Some of the best neologisms in programming, many of them to do with bug-fixing.
A framework for creating old-school arcade games in the browser, using HTML5.
There is a magazine for JavaScript. I did not know that.
Some Ruby on Rails code for enhancing sign-up forms using Google's Social Graph API, inspired by Huffduffer.
Since Amazon decided to require signed requests for its API, I'm going to have to use this code to keep Huffduffer and The Session working. Grrrr... cool APIs don't change.
Dave has been experimenting with processing and documenting the results here.
How one line of JavaScript cost a hardware vendor millions. Browser sniffing is bad, m'kay?
foreach (tyger in night.forests) { burn(bright); }
A PHP script that adds nice typography to your markup.
Steven Pemberton, one of my favourite long-term thinkers, talks about programming, markup and XForms.
Wait... I thought this was considered harmful?
A python script from Dan Benjamin to help you do your bit in battling the datapocalypse.
The classic arcade game, recreated using the JavaScript/SVG library Raphaël.
A detailed comparison of jQuery and MooTools.
John Gruber provides a PHP-based way of busting out of Digg's 90s-style framing. I shall be implementing this forthwith.
The manual that came with the ZX81 has been lovingly converted to HTML. This was my first contact with programming (or computers, for that matter).
An in-browser code editor from Mozilla Labs.
The entire text of this seminal work is online in HTML, licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License.
A nice way to play around with Google's APIs. Example code is provided which you can edit and immediately see the results.
Remy teaches non-techies how to use jQuery in a responsible way.
An excellent overview of Ajax and optimisation.
Like 24 Ways, this is an advent calendar for geeks. But this one is focused on PHP.
Cameron made a drum machine in JavaScript. This is further proof that the man in blue is possibly even more insane than John Resig. Nuts! Nuts, I tell you!
Notes and slides from Tom Taylor's talk at Oxford Geek Night 7. It's a great collection of things that talk (or at least Twitter): Tower Bridge, asteroids, plants...
Google is now hosting all the major JavaScript libraries. The caching benefits should be good news for your users.
Hey, look what's back: Webmonkey! Ah, memories.
Simon's slides and demos from his half-day workshop at XTech.
John gave us a sneak peak of this at @media Ajax last November: Processing ported to JavaScript using canvas. Check out the demos and be amazed.
Hurrah! Flickr are sharing their code and here's the central repository.
Okay, you have to be a real JavaScript/HTML geek to find this funny but check this out: document.write('<noscript>...'); Madness!
It looks like John's next book will be superb.
The slides from Dan's excellent presentation on metaprogramming JavaScript.
PPK delivers his report on the excellent @media Ajax conference.
A super simple lightweight piece of forum software from Stuart in just one PHP file. Drop it in a directory and you're done.
One of many code-snippet sharing sites out there but this one has some nice features like tagging and popularity. The interface is yuck though. dpaste,com is nicer but more ephemeral.
Speaking from experience, I concur.
From the people who brought you jQuery comes a set of widgets built using jQuery complete with documentation and tutorials.
The second part of Gareth's series for Digital Web on APIs. This time he's got some PHP code samples for parsing XML and JSON.
Okay, this started as a joke but then I couldn't resist writing a bit of code. Usage: OH_HAI.I_CAN_HAS_ELEMENT_BY_ID("Id") and OH_HAI.I_CAN_HAS_ELEMENTS_BY_TAG_NAME("tag").
I'm sure everyone else has already discovered this but I really was L'ing O L when I read the "Hai world" code.
A collection of scripts. There might be some good stuff here but use with care and discretion.
A brilliant list of New Year's Resolutions for Coders.
Yahoo is opening up Hack Day to the masses. If you're anywhere near Sunnyvale on September 29th, this should be fun.
A French translation of my most recent article for A List Apart.
The Spry framework from Adobe looks like it could be worth further investigation. I certainly like the underlying philosophy: lightweight, standards-based, and declarative.
A cautionary note to Rails coders from Tom. The default JavaScript includes can really add to your page weight. Only include them if you really need all of them.
Cameron has written a great article on using APIs with Ajax. I love the idea of using .htaccess to fake a proxy and get around the same-site restriction.
A lot of these articles are more about JavaScript in general than Ajax per se, but it's good to have all these resources gathered together in one place.
Dan Webb does an excellent job of comparing the big four JavaScript libraries that were discussed at @media.
The creator of PHP offers an antidote to the profusion of frameworks out there.
Jeremy Zawodny rails against the continuing snobbery towards front-end engineers.
The working example from Richard's chapter in Blog Design Solutions. It's a home-rolled PHP/MySQL blog for Samuel Pepys featuring beautiful typography... natch.
My fellow Brightonian geek, Dom, has written an article about using Perl and Ajax.
This series of cartoon panels is funny because it's true.
Who knew? The way I do my Ajax is a microformat. AHAH: Asynchronous HTML and HTTP.
The fascinating story of an application built by ex-employees sneaking into Apple.
Paradoxical but true.
Great paintings, for example, get you laid in a way that great computer programs never do.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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