Tag "javascript"

Digging in my archives I found a backup of my personal home page from 2000 to 2003, and through a little work of archeology and restoration, I made it work in our modern world of 2023.

I love Bootstrap. No matter which web frontend framework I try, I always end up returning to it.

I gave an update on this lifetime activity of mine in 2006, 2007, 2011, and 2013, and here we go for 2023.

I am, I have been, and forever will be a big advocate of server-side rendering. I think it is an essential way to build dynamic web content. I believe in this adamantly, feverishly, strongly, and relentlessly.

Around 1998, Macromedia Dreamweaver allowed developers to create animated web pages using 100% generated JavaScript code. This was before we were told about the good parts of JavaScript, before script.aculo.us, and without the need for Flash players or Java applets of any kind.

Back in the 1990s, shared libraries were all the rage. Instead of having to ship a 20 MB *.exe file to your customer in various floppy disks, you could cut some code out, put it in a set of *.dll files, and reuse that code across all your products. Every vendor would then install lots of DLL files in your system, and they would be reused by other apps from the same vendor.

The D programming language lacked a “killer app” to break through. Another brilliant language suffered from this situation, objectively deserving a much better fate than the one it had; Smalltalk.

This was my speech for the WeAreDevelopers Container Day on February 3rd, 2021. The talk will feature a live demo showing how to build, optimize, and distribute containers to be reused in as many environments as possible, 100% based on the experience of the VSHN team.

Microsoft is a big, big, big name in our industry. No matter what they do, everybody notices. Whether it’s good or bad, useful or ridiculous, big or small, it never goes by unnoticed.

As part of my work in VSHN, I lately prepared a set of demo applications ready to be containerized and deployed in our new product APPUiO Cloud.

Node.js projects are very much cross-platform, allowing your team to use any operating system they want to work on them.

My personal project during the pandemic was Conway, a project providing implementations of Conway’s Game of Life in as many programming languages as possible.

I published my first web page in the server of my university.

Around 2002 I found a small website created by a certain Douglas Crockford, in which he claimed that JavaScript was the World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language.

In 2002 I moved back to Switzerland, and found a first job as a developer in a company making a super expensive product nobody needed.

Back in 1997 I was earning some cash writing Active Server Pages in that mutant programming language called VBScript.

The JavaScript ecosystem has grown dramatically in the past decade. It has become so complex, that I’ve seen many new developers interested in the subject struggle to find out where to start.

This is the presentation I gave at the second App Builders Conference in Lausanne, Switzerland, April 25th, 2017.

Quick update about my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

This is the official announcement of my second book, “Sencha Touch 2 Up and Running”, available for sale in print and in DRM-free electronic formats (PDF, ePub, Kindle, etc.

Today I’m announcing my first book, “Mobile JavaScript Application Development”, available for sale in print and in DRM-free electronic formats (PDF, ePub, Kindle, etc.

We are very happy to introduce our latest open source project: the Teaching Editor.

Here’s an update of the current status of my “one language per year” lifelong initiative:

Yes, it’s possible. Even if Objective-C is one of my preferred programming languages, in any case I think it’s worth mentioning that, 2 years after the official iPhone SDK has been announced, the iPhone development landscape has really grown up, and many, many different options are available today.

It’s fun to find out how to tackle the same task in different programming languages; in this case, it’s all about doing HTTP requests over a network: fortunately, there are networking libraries in virtually all major programming languages.

For the last article of this series, I’ll let Douglas Crockford do the talk :) This is an amazing video about the good and the bad parts of JavaScript, as seen by a guy that seriously, seriously knows his stuff: Douglas works in the YUI team at Yahoo!

How to organize code in “namespaces” When you use lots of libraries in your code, you can easily pick up a function name that corresponds to a pre-existing name in some library that you might have included.

Object-Oriented Programming in JavaScript Functions are also used to represent classes when doing object-oriented JavaScript.

As I said yesterday, JavaScript is the world’s most misunderstood language, which means that you must unlearn what you have learned.

Should you ever have to work on a web application again, just don’t think about it twice; Ext is an amazing piece of free software, light-years away from anything you’ve seen before.

There are basically 5 languages that I really like. For several reasons.

Somewhere I read that it was a good thing to learn at least one new programming language every year; I think I have kept up that trend since 1992:

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