Crockford on JavaScript

Good morning everyone, having a slow day at work? take the time to listen to these videos, or just put them in background while you work!

“During the past three months, Yahoo!’s JavaScript architect Douglas Crockford delivered a series of public lectures on the JavaScript programming language at Yahoo!. YUI Theater recorded and transcribed each of the five lectures.”

Volume 1: The Early Years

Chapter 2: And Then There Was JavaScript

Act III: Function the Ultimate

Episode IV: The Metamorphosis of Ajax

Part 5: The End of All Things

Cool web projects that will energize you

Sometimes there are projects that are just way cooler than yours. In this spirit, I wanted to highlights some projects that just flabbergast me. I tried to put more down to earth projects than just “experimental stuff”.

Vanthia

Vanthia is just a browser MMO based on Mootools and Python. The creator worked on it for years and it shows. The UI is great, the game itself looks great, it use canvas and various HTML5 apis. If you are trying to do an MMO javascript based games, I suggest you have a good look at it.

The video is a bit old, it changed quite a bit.

Aves game engine

Aves is a javascript game engine that got an isometric level editor. oh yes, it also got real time features.

Mozilla Hacks HTML5 image…

In video: John Resig on Advanced Javascript to Improve your Web App

In February 2010 John Resig, the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library, spoke at the annual Future of Web Apps Miami conference. During this 25 minute talk John outlines many of the new features and ideas behind jQuery 1.4.

Source from ThinkVitamin.

The 10 Golden Principles of Successful Web Apps

Do you instinctively know them before looking at this video?

In video: Optimizing your javascript!

If you are in a company that build corporate websites, chances are you probably never had to optimize your javascript. Websites in general have 3 or 4 ‘widget’ that in the end do not really slow down the page load.

But when you start doing web applications, you start to feel the load you impose to your browser at every page. This is where optimizing your javascript becomes crucial.

In video: The Future of Web Apps

Ben Galbraith & Dion Almaer – The Future of Web Applications from Øredev on Vimeo.

“The Ajax revolution saw a sea change in web application development. By taking advantage of long-dormant browser capabilities, we were able to take our craft to new levels–reinventing well-established genres, challenging desktop applications, and jump-starting a renaissance in web start-ups.”

In this presentation, recorded at Øredev 2009, Dion Almaer and Ben Galbraith (Creators of Ajaxian.com) examine the many factors contributing to the web as platform and also explore what the next stage of evolution for the web might look like.”

Update: Please click on the video, I unfortunatly can’t embed it on the site

In video: Mozilla show the future of web file uploading

“Many web applications use image uploaders: image hosting websites, blog publishing applications, social networks, among many others. Such uploaders have limitations: you can’t upload more than one file at a time and you can’t edit the image before sending it. A plugin is the usual workaround for uploading more than one image, and image modifications are usually done on the server side, which can make the editing process more cumbersome.

Firefox 3.6 allows millions of people to take advantage of modern standards, including HTML5.
The image uploader described here shows how a web page should really be considered as an application since it interacts with your Desktop and works offline.”

All the information here.

Can you tell this video player is not in flash?

A nice HTML5 video player has popped up recently. The Sublime video player is an experimentation from Jillion and what can I say, I tried it on Chrome and it look pretty slick and powerful. It currently support the latest version of Firefox, Safari and chrome.

Now if browser vendors could get along on video format, our only problem would be Microsoft. I mean, common Apple, you could support h264 and OGG..

Video: Multi-Touch JS demo in the wild

Using Multi-Touch Events in Firefox and processing.js, you can create quite cool stuff:

More here.

Video: John Resig — Testing, Performance Analysis, and jQuery 1.4

Another great talk of John Resig