The JavaScript "Sucks" Conversation
The other day I had a conversation (more of I think I am better than you rant) about how JavaScript needs to be a "real" language. The person in my mind had no clue what JavaScript's real potential was when you sat down and looked at it. I remained calm and chuckled to myself inside.
Well I listened to his 2 cents and sum his five minute rant into one sentence. "JavaScript's 'loose' variables are evil, JavaScript’s OO is not OO, and the standards are to slow to adapt with browsers.
Well my response back went something like this:
The Ajax Experience: Posted my topic.
If you already did not hear the big news, I will be presenting at the The Ajax Experience in San Francisco May 10-12, 2006. This will be the biggest conference on Ajax with the biggest names and some great topics are being discussed and I can not wait to listen to some of them!
When I had to come up with my talk I wanted to do something orginal. After banging my head on my "wall of thoughts" (nerd version of mirror mirror on the wall). I thought I would do something that I actually use in a production enviornment. I log my clientside errors with Ajax and other methods to the server so I can spot and fix errors I would normally never see. With the amount of clientside code people are implementing these days, it is probably well worth it.
So with that said, I posted my full description of my talk on the conference site: http://theajaxexperience.com/show_session_view.jsp?sessionId=1419&showId=58.
Hope to see you there!
Eric Pascarello
Coauthor of Ajax In Action
Moderator of HTML/JavaScript at www.JavaRanch.com
Author of: JavaScript: Your Visual Blueprint for Dynamic Web Pages