Archive for December 2007
JavaScript Tutorial Videos at Yahoo! UI Library YUI Theater
Visit the Yahoo! UI Library YUI Theater for some quality JavaScript tutorials by Douglas Crockford.
Douglas Crockford — “The JavaScript Programming Language” (111 minutes)
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provides a comprehensive introduction to the JavaScript Programming Language in this four-part video:
- Part 1: 31 minutes or M4V download
- Part 2: 31 minutes or M4V download
- Part 3: 29 minutes or M4V download
- Part 4: 20 minutes or M4V download
- Download slides (zipped PowerPoint file)
Douglas Crockford — “Advanced JavaScript” (67 minutes)
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford lectures on the nuances of the JavaScript programming language in this three-part video:
- Part 1: 31 minutes or M4V download
- Part 2: 25 minutes or M4V download
- Part 3: 11 minutes or M4V download
- Download slides (zipped PowerPoint file)
Douglas Crockford — “An Inconvenient API: The Theory of the DOM” (78 minutes)
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford discusses the nexus between JavaScript and the browser, exploring the history of the BOM and DOM APIs and their impact on frontend engineering today. This presentation is archived in three parts:
- Part 1: 31 minutes or M4V download
- Part 2: 21 minutes or M4V download
- Part 3: 26 minutes or M4V download
- Download slides (zipped PowerPoint file)
Douglas Crockford — Quality (48 minutes)
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford provided the anchoring keynote for Yahoo!’s annual internal web-development conference in March, 2007. The subject of the talk is “Quality” — the processes by which we engineer quality into our software and, of course, the processes by which we often fail to do so.
Douglas Crockford — “JavaScript: The Good Stuff” (40 minutes)
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford keynotes the 2007 Konfabulator Developer Day at Yahoo! on June 7, 2007. In this talk, he describes his own journey from skepticism about JavaScript to a deep appreciation for its power and elegance.
Douglas Crockford — “The State of Ajax” (38 minutes)
Yahoo! JavaScript Architect Douglas Crockford reprises his talk on “The State of Ajax”, putting the popular technique through the critical lens of history and subjecting it to a review of how it stacks up against the current state-of-the-art in computer programming.
