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So we are here again talking about Javascript. I have already wrote an article comparing a well known SmallTalk implementation to Javascript. If my ideas are right (at least a bit), you will see more and more javascript on the next months. In particular:
- JavaScript is the Ajax programming languge for the rest of us
- Mobile Framework like PhoneGap and Appcelerator, are all about javascript at the top
- Javascript is evolved, and it is used server side by projects like node.js
Getting Started
JavaScript is a language must be re-learned if you are old like me (i.e. born before 1982).This book will re teach you javascript in ten minutes or so on. A very nice and funny read, for 25 pages!A lot of the things you will read will be new to you, for sure.Studing good librabries is a must. JQuery is a very well written and commented library: grab the full sized source and start reading it.Getting your hands dirty
A good way of learning is trying to make your own errors :)QUnit is a unit-testing framework you can run in your browser, which will be very useful to you.If you prefer nodejs, vows is a continuous integration library which will save your days. I prefer vows in these days, because it can run from the command line, and it is easy to setup.Phase3: Evolving to the next step
Coffee Script is a very instructive language. Look how CoffeeScript renders its code in JavaScript:it will avoid you a lot of mistakes.And this bring us to a very sad rule: discipline in JavaScript is fundamental to avoid nasty bugs.
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Arduino rocks, you know. And we we are happy to announce a new set of goodies from the Arduino Italian crew!
And if you do not know what is arduino, we have a fix for that (TM)
For the second year in a row we decided to announce our new products at Maker Faire in NYC.
Arduino 1.0, we finally froze the Arduino API, the IDE and the layout of the boards. We’ve made some minor additions to the Arduino connectors to make them more flexible. Tomorrow you will be able to download the release candidate and in 1 month of frantic testing with the community, the platform will be ready and stable.
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Archimedes (287 BC) said “give me a place to stand and I will move the earth”.
Apple, after decades of lack of decent garbage collection to Objective-C, seems to say “I will give an ARC to exit to the dark hand-made memory allocation”.
Let’see how.
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Do you like Arduino?
Do you like dynamic programming languages like ruby?
Well, the RAD is your Ruby Arduino Development!
We just find out that link on hacker news, which comments worth a read.
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Because of the success of my article on java closure, I have decided to write another article on functional programming.
In the last year functional programming is waving back to us, for a lot of reason. Let’s summarize the facts:
Functional programming is based on the core concept of pure function. The main advantages of functional programming is the lack of side-effects, at least at the syntax-level of the language.
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In the past week I learned Flask, a very young and promising python framework. I have already learned Django, Cherrypy, Web2Py and TurboGears.
Anyway, if you are planning a medium sized project, I like to suggest you Flask, because of these feature:
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At Gioorgi.com we are not a true cloud fan, and reality is going on to collect proofs for us…
On June 20, 2011, Dropbox had a serious security bug. It was possible to login to an account with “a wrong password”. Like to say Dropbox account system was naked, because “a small number of users[…] could have logged into an account without the correct password”!
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Inversion of Control (IoC) is a very good idea.
But as the clever Joel Spolsky noted, sometimes you need to be a super-natural hero to use it:
… I try not to be judgemental (HAHA!), but I think that people who use IoC containers are (A) very smart and (B) lacking in empathy for people who aren't as smart as they are. Everything makes perfect sense to them, so they have trouble understanding that many ordinary programmers will find the concepts confusing. It's the curse of knowledge. The people who understand IoC containers have trouble believing that there are people who don't understand it. …
I have trouble using Spring in at least two projects. On the third, it was a disaster, because a single software-architect-guy keeps passing around the Spring context factory as method parameter, getting beans from it!
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