A practical walkthrough of using map/reduce with MongoDB to aggregate statistics for generating a report.
Addy Osmani introduces backbone.js as one part of the toolkit for building mobile JavaScript web applications. Backbone is an MVC-like framework to structure your application, simplifies server-side persistence, decouples the DOM from data, succinctly separates apps into Models, views and routers and provides synchronisation between DOM, model and collections.
MSDN reports that 8.4% of all IE9 hangs recently are caused by XMLHttpRequest objects blocking the UI thread because they are using synchronous requests instead of asynchronous. This is a good example of the harm of working against the grain of asynchronous approach in a single-threaded JavaScript environment.
Another Douglas Crockford video. This time Douglas talks about the Document Object Model, about how Java failed, and JavaScript evolved thanks to DHTML and DOM. He talks about how to use DOM to traversing and manipulating elements in an HTML document, walking the DOM, making elements, innerHTML, as well as Events, memory leaks. He talks about the cracks in DOM, and how we must be prepared to back off when we hit the browser limits of DOM.
First in a series of talks from Douglas Crockford about the JavaScript language. These talks cover the JavaScript language, from the history, the language, advanced features, platforms, standards and programming style. Talks about inheritance, using functions to build objects, closures, as well as the basic JavaScript syntax. Also covers code conventions. JavaScript is a language that requires discipline.