HIGHLY recommend, "_javascript_:
The Good Parts", by Douglas Crockford. It'll be a quick
read for someone with your background and will save you a lot of
headache down the road. _javascript_ is definitely a language where
what you CAN do is not necessarily what you SHOULD do.
Not sure if you'll like or hate the format, but the Head First
series will ramp you up quickly, and from scratch, on building web
apps. Check out, "Head
First HTML5 Programming" for a nice intro to HTML5, _javascript_
and building web apps. Not a great reference book, but spins you up
quickly on the fundamentals. (You can check out sample pages to see
if it's starting out too basic for you.)
Enjoy,
Roger
On 1/12/2012 6:40 PM, John J Barton wrote:
On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 3:28 PM, Kris De
Volder <kdvolder@xxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Another introduction :-)
I am a member of the same team working for VMWare
SpringSources as Andrew and Andy who introduced themselves
earlier.
I work mostly on the Groovy/Grails tool support in STS. Some
of the things I've worked on
- The infrastructure for running grails commands and
deploying Grails apps from within STS.
- The Greclipse formatter and autoindentation logic.
- Grails refactoring support.
I've also worked a bit on AJDT (pull-out refactoring support).
I am also the lead (and only :-) developer on STS tool support
for Gradle.
I've been at springsource for just about 1.5 years.
The 10 years before that I used to be a Professor of Computer
Science at UBC teaching programming languages courses and
doing research on developer tool support. Most of this
research happened in the context of Eclipse, developing
Eclipse plugins. So I'm quite comfortable working in
Java/Eclipse.
I am completely new to _javascript_. I have some basic
understanding of stuff like html and CSS but have only built
very simple static websites up to know.
I don't expect I'll have too much trouble picking up
_javascript_ "the language" as I have some familiarity with
languages like Scheme and Haskell and I'm familiar with the
concept of prototype based languages. I expect I'll struggle
most with how it fits in with the complexity of all the stuff
around it: web development, browsers, different libraries etc.
Anybody know a good tutorial / book on how you build a nice
typical (is there such a thing?) dynamic HTML5/_javascript_ app
from scratch... I'm interested.
Esp. compared to Java, I guess the answer is "no, there is
no such thing as a typical app". Most medium sized projects
build on libraries that essentially redefine the language or
runtime model; Large scale projects do the same all on their
own. Orion itself uses dojo, that's a great start and most
like Java. Learn about jQuery to get another view. Orion
includes uglify parser, a good example of a more functional JS
program. Another strong wing is the node.js world.
I guess one important difference you may encounter is more
and more async programming.
Welcome ;-)
jjb
I'm interested in working on Orion. Not sure yet what piece of
it. So I won't be too picky on what to work on. Starting by
fixing some 'easy' bugs to get to know how things work would
be good. If there are suggestions on good bug tickets to 'get
my hands dirty' I'm interested.
Later on I may be interested in looking at refactoring
support, and/or work together with Andrew on the
type-inferencing stuff (which I imagine will be paramount to
the refactoring support).
Kris
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