JavaScript and the Web2.0

  • Book review: Test-Driven JavaScript Development

    by Jakob Westhoff on Wed, 12 Jan 2011 15:10:53 +0100

    Over the holidays I finally had some time to work on my stack of books to read. One of the books on top of my list was Test-Driven JavaScript Development by Christian Johanson. Read more…

  • My book: "Plug-in Entwicklung mit jQuery"

    by Jakob Westhoff on Mon, 13 Dec 2010 00:05:46 +0100

    Over the past year I have been working on a book called "Plug-in Entwicklung mit jQuery" (engl. Plugin development with jQuery). Those of you who follow me on twitter might already know it: From today on the book is finally available. Why this book might be an interesting read for you is detailed in this article. Read more…

  • International PHP Conference - WebTechCon 2010 - A Wrap Up

    by Jakob Westhoff on Mon, 18 Oct 2010 11:17:19 +0200

    The IPC 2010 is over again. Actually it ended last Thursday, but unfortunately I had no time to write this article before. It was a great conference as always. Meeting with the PHP family again has been as exciting as always. I did not only have a lot of fun, but gathered some new ideas for future projects as well. Having occupied myself with a lot of JavaScript and jQuery stuff in the last one and a half years I decided it would be appropriate to share some of my gathered knowledge. Therefore, I gave two jQuery related talks at the WebTechCon this year, which took place in parallel to the IPC. Read more…

  • Currying functions in JavaScript - A generic approach

    by Jakob Westhoff on Fri, 08 Oct 2010 06:49:34 +0200

    While preparing some slides for my jQuery workshop at this years WebTech Conference I was in need of different closure example. As I thought about complex ones currying came to my mind. Even though I actually never used this concept in JavaScript I quickly hacked a short function as a generic approach to introduce this feature to the language. Read more…

  • Another PHP Unconference is over - A wrap up

    by Jakob Westhoff on Tue, 28 Sep 2010 03:26:23 +0200

    This years PHPUnconference is over. As every year before, it has been a fantastic event. The Unconference in Hamburg is one of the meet-ups, which I am happily looking forward to each year. Read more…

  • sprintf.js - An almost feature complete Javascript sprintf implementation

    by Jakob Westhoff on Sun, 20 Jun 2010 20:23:32 +0200

    In regular intervals I am missing something in every Javascript environment I use. The sprintf function. There are quite a lot of reimplementations for Javascript out there, but I never found one, which really worked as I wanted it to. Therefore I finally decided to hack my own sprintf implementation. I am releasing it under the MIT license, for everybody to use, who might find it useful. Read more…

  • ineedmoretime.org - A HTML5 analog clock experiment

    by Jakob Westhoff on Tue, 01 Jun 2010 22:08:06 +0200

    During an unofficial phpugdo hackathon with a lot of nice guys last weekend, I came up with the idea to write an analog clock using some of HTML5s new features. Completely without Flash. I had done this before using CSS3-Rotation (CSSClock), but this time I wanted something with nice graphics and even nicer animations. Read more…

  • js-test-driver Phing task

    by Jakob Westhoff on Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:34:10 +0200

    In my need of a cross-browser javascript unit-testing framework, which can be run from the commandline I discovered js-test-driver. I soon realized to be able to productively use this framework I needed to integrate the test run into the used build process. As Phing is used for building I needed a simple Phing task to run js-test-driver tests. Read more…

  • FrOSCon Talk: jQuery Plugin Development (Resources)

    by Jakob Westhoff on Tue, 25 Aug 2009 21:44:20 +0200

    I just gave my talk about "jQuery Plugin Development" at this years FrOSCon. I had much fun giving this talk as the audience was great. You can get the slides and example code here. Read more…

  • FrOSCon Talk: jQuery Plugin Development

    by Jakob Westhoff on Mon, 17 Aug 2009 19:14:07 +0200

    This years FrOSCon I will not only be one of the organizers of the PHP-Room, I will furthermore give a talk in the FrOSCon main track about Plugin development with jQuery. Read more…