Ivo Wetzel covers some of the quirks of the JavaScript language. Some of these cause subtle bugs, some overturn conventional wisdom. It covers toString on numbers. Covers the advanced JavaScript features such as prototypal inheritance, this, closures, anonymous wrappers, type-casting, automatic semicolon insertion and hoisting of function and variable declarations.
Christian Heilmann compares the Object Literal to Douglas Crockford's Module pattern and finds that the Module pattern fixes a major problem of the object literal - the difficult choice of using this or fully qualified references to functions in the same block. Christian also covers the improvements in the Module Pattern, like the decluttering of the return block, which makes the resulting a little easier to work with.
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.
Tim explains object orientation in the context of JavaScript, covering concepts like object literal, encapsulation, inheritance using prototype, composition through association and aggregation, polymorphism. Useful read for OO-aware developers to grasp some of the potential of JavaScript.
Dustin Diaz discusses the Object Literal form of JavaScript, pointing out benefits such as better organisation of code in a namespace / wrapper.
An overview of object literals and object oriented programming, referencing attributes and functions, prototype objects, creating singletons.