O'Reilly Media: JavaScript

JavaScript for PHP Developers

2013-05-02T14:17:59-08:10

If you want to significantly expand your web development skills beyond PHP, this practical, hands-on book teaches you ECMAScript—the core JavaScript language—from the ground up. You’ll discover some similarities between JavaScript and PHP, such as conditions and loops, but the primary focus is on JavaScript’s unique object creation, classes, prototypes, and inheritance.

Four short links: 24 April 2013

2013-04-24T03:20:03-08:11

Solar Energy: This is What a Disruptive Technology Looks Like (Brian McConnell) — In 1977, solar cells cost upwards of $70 per Watt of capacity. In 2013, that cost has dropped to $0.74 per Watt, a 100:1 improvement (source: The …

The Modern Web

2013-04-23T13:17:58-08:12

Peter Gasston's The Modern Web will guide you through the latest and most important tools of device-agnostic web development, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.

AngularJS

2013-04-23T13:17:58-08:13

Develop smaller, lighter web apps that are simple to create and easy to test, extend, and maintain as they grow. This hands-on guide introduces you to AngularJS, the open source JavaScript framework that uses Model–view–controller (MVC) architecture, data binding, client-side templates, and dependency injection to create a much-needed structure for building web apps.

Jump Start Responsive Web Design

2013-04-04T13:31:01-08:14

Get a Jump Start on Responsive Web Design today!

Responsive Web Design is redefining the way websites are designed, enabling you to craft websites that deliver exceptional experiences to your users - whether they happen to be using a desktop PC, tablet or mobile device.

In just one weekend with this SitePoint book, you'll learn how to:

Use media queries to maximize website usability
Harness the power of fluid grids
Use dynamic images to automatically scale and select appropriate images

Plus you'll discover how to use responsive content and a mobile first approach.

Four short links: 3 April 2013

2013-04-03T04:41:40-08:15

Capn Proto — open source faster protocol buffers (binary data interchange format and RPC system). Saddle — a high performance data manipulation library for Sacala. Vega — a visualization grammar, a declarative format for creating, saving and sharing visualization designs. …

Four short links: 2 April 2013

2013-04-02T04:40:06-08:16

Analyzing mbostock’s queue.js — beautiful walkthrough of a small library, showing the how and why of good coding. What Job Would You Hire a Textbook To Do? (Karl Fisch) — notes from a Discovery Education “Beyond the Textbook” event. The …

Training Guide: Programming in HTML5 with JavaScript and CSS3

2013-03-29T13:31:59-08:17

Build the real-world skills needed to begin developing modern apps with HTML5, JavaScript, and CSS3. Work at your own pace through the lessons, exercises, and practices in this Training Guide—for the hands-on expertise your job demands.

JavaScript Testing with Jasmine

2013-03-28T12:33:09-08:18

Get a concise introduction to Jasmine, the popular behavior-driven testing framework for JavaScript. This practical guide shows you how to write unit tests with Jasmine that automatically check for bugs in your application. Learn how to write specifications for individual components, and then use those specs to test the code you write.

Four short links: 20 March 2013

2013-03-20T04:28:39-08:19

Digital Music Consumption on the Internet: Evidence from Clickstream Data (Scribd) — The goal of this paper is to analyze the behavior of digital music consumers on the Internet. Using clickstream data on a panel of more than 16,000 European …

Four short links: 18 March 2013

2013-03-18T05:31:33-08:20

A Quantitative Literary History of 2,958 Nineteenth-Century British Novels: The Semantic Cohort Method (PDF) — This project was simultaneously an experiment in developing quantitative and computational methods for tracing changes in literary language. We wanted to see how far quantifiable …

Four short links: 4 March 2013

2013-03-04T04:27:12-08:21

Life Inside the Aaron Swartz Investigation — do hard things and risk failure. What else are we on this earth for? crossfilter — open source (Apache 2) JavaScript library for exploring large multivariate datasets in the browser. Crossfilter supports extremely …

Four short links: 20 February 2013

2013-02-20T20:34:24-08:22

The Network of Global Control (PLoS One) — We find that transnational corporations form a giant bow-tie structure and that a large portion of control flows to a small tightly-knit core of financial institutions. [...] From an empirical point of …

DOM Enlightenment

2013-02-20T20:28:40-08:23

With DOM Enlightenment, you’ll learn how to manipulate HTML more efficiently by scripting the Document Object Model (DOM) without a DOM library. Using code examples in cookbook style, author Cody Lindley (jQuery Cookbook) walks you through modern DOM concepts to demonstrate how various node objects work.

Cucumber Recipes

2013-02-12T13:23:42-08:24

You can test just about anything with Cucumber. We certainly have, and in Cucumber Recipes we'll show you how to apply our hard-won field experience to your own projects. Once you've mastered the basics, this book will show you how to get the most out of Cucumber--from specific situations to advanced test-writing advice. With over forty practical recipes, you'll test desktop, web, mobile, and server applications across a variety of platforms. This book gives you tools that you can use today to automate any system that you encounter, and do it well.