by Elisabeth Robson | Jun 8, 2016 | beginner, Video, Web
In a previous video about using the browser developer tools, I focus on how to use the JavaScript console to experiment with and test your JavaScript code. In the following videos, I provide a quick overview of the main features in the Safari and Chrome developer...
by team | Oct 8, 2015 | blog, Featured, FrontPage
Interested in the future of the Internet? WickedlySmart colleague Eric Freeman co-wrote a piece with technology guru David Gelernter for the Wall Street Journal on where the web is going. Here’s a preview: People ask where the Web is going; it’s going nowhere....
by team | Sep 15, 2015 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Design Patterns, FrontPage
We’ve just finished a cool project with O’Reilly: a short manager’s guide to design patterns. Here’s the idea: create a guide that gives you the gist of design patterns, enough to remind you of what they are all about, or enough to get you motivated and on your way to...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 21, 2015 | blog, CSS, FrontPage, Web
Over the years CSS has grown… a lot. Just like with HTML and JavaScript APIs (like geolocation and web storage), the specification for CSS—that is, what constitutes correct CSS rules and properties—is managed by the W3C, the World Wide Web...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jul 17, 2015 | blog, FrontPage, JavaScript, Programming
In JavaScript, we use functions in three different ways: as methods of objects; as constructors of objects; and, as “regular” functions (that is, functions we typically write either as top-level functions, or functions we pass as anonymous functions to...
by eric | Jun 30, 2015 | blog, Design Patterns
We recently finished a cool project with O’Reilly: a short manager’s guide to design patterns. Here’s the idea: create a guide that gives you the gist of design patterns, just enough to get you started. In the guide we’ll step you through what a design pattern...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jun 28, 2015 | blog, Featured, JavaScript, JSVideo, podcast, Teaser Video, Video
JavaScript is a bit different from other programming languages. How? In part three of Head First JavaScript Programming Teasers, Elisabeth steps you through what makes JavaScript unique, and why it’s a great first programming language. All you need to get...
by eric | Jun 18, 2015 | blog, Design Patterns, FrontPage, Java, Programming
This article first appeared on the O’Reily Radar to promote the new report titled An Engineering Manager’s Guide to Design Patterns. You can download a free copy of An Engineering Manager’s Guide to Design Patterns directly from O’Reilly. If you haven’t...
by Elisabeth Robson | Jun 12, 2015 | Beginner's Mind, blog, FrontPage, Programming
JavaScript isn’t the first language to use first class functions, but it’s likely the language that made them popular. Java, Objective C, C#, C++, Python… these are all languages that did not have first class functions until recently. Once JavaScript...
by Elisabeth Robson | Mar 26, 2015 | Beginner's Mind, blog, Programming
In my previous post, I experimented with the new const keyword which you can use to create constants in JavaScript. Along with var and const, we’ll soon have a third way to declare values in JavaScript: the let keyword. Like var, you’ll use let to create...
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