thyncology

5 JavaScript Entries

• 10-13-2008 ThyncRecord Updates, New Developers So there’ve been some pretty quick lightning rounds of additions to ThyncRecord over the last few days. Partially I attribute this to my hitting a groove, but a lot of it comes from adding a couple new developers to the fold: David and Jesse.
  
  Both David and Jesse are fairly new to JavaScript, new to MooTools, [...]
• 09-04-2008 Thoughts on ThyncRecord This is a reposting of an email I sent Frank Lee, who I’ve tapped to help out in building optimized queries for ThyncRecord. Just figured I’d share.
  
  “Because of [JavaScript's prototype-based inheritance vs normal OOP], there is no proper concept of class methods and instance methods. (I don’t believe moo has implemented such a feature yet, [...]
• 08-11-2008 AIR, MooTools, ThyncRecord Threeish updates:
  
  I’ve recently begun using Adobe AIR (specifically using JavaScript) and am really excited about it. Have had a friend install an unsigned demo of some of my interface code and he said it worked great! This code is for a scalable/syncable task manager I’ve set aside until I can get some more database-centric groundwork [...]
• 02-14-2008 Gracefully Degrading Widgets, Part 1: Tabs Over the next few posts here on thyncology, I’ll describe how to create the front-end code (XHTML, CSS, and JavaScript) for a set of reusable, effects-laden widgets. The tutorials are aimed at developers/designers who are well-versed enough to understand the CSS/XHTML used here, but programmers of any level (including beginners) can benefit from the JavaScript [...]
• 03-27-2007 The JavaScript Anthology This really is a good book, I hadn’t given it much of a look before (I though the JavaScript & DHTML Cookbook was the be-all end-all of basic JS books) but I’m really digging it. Check it out sometime, it’s a nice simple read but covers all the bases for basics, down to specific use [...]