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There is another free sample chapter of my book available on the Apress.com site.
You can download the code examples at BeginningJavaScript.com
... chat about JavaScript stuff (O RLY?).
Ian Forrester organiser of the Geek Dinners roasted PPK, Jeremy Keith, Dean Edwards and me at the @media afterparty. The sound is rather bad, and it is a 54MB MP4 file to enjoy on a newfangled gizmo. For cheapskate users like me, it also plays in Mediaplayer classic.
Get all the video footage of the @media afterparty (Molly and Andy talking about CSS, ‘Have I got Accessibility for You’ with Andy, Brothercake, Patrick Lauke, Tomas Caspers and Isofarro and us) at Ian’s footage page
As I am covering the Yahoo! User Interface library in the “Using Third Party JavaScript” chapter of my book we decided to offer YUI users an exclusive preview excerpt of the chapter.
You can download the chapter excerpt in PDF format at the YUI Blog
Enjoy!
I am proud to announce that my book has been shipped out the printers and will be available soon-ish in the shops or arrive at your places when you pre-ordered it.
I used the better part of my freetime (that is normally spent on personal grooming) of the last 7 months writing it on my trusty T42 IBM laptop on the tube to work, in restaurants, cafes and other people’s houses.
The outcome is pretty impressive though:
You can get all the information about it and download or check out the code examples at http://www.beginningjavascript.com
I hope I succeeded in delivering a book that will help beginners get the basics of JavaScript and will also help seasoned developers to brush up on old practices.
Anyways, the next one is in the making…
var g='';for(var i=0;i<4;i++){
g+='Happy Birthday To You';g+=(i==2)?', dear Stuart! ':'! ';
}alert(g);
Go an pester him on his blog about it.