Blogs
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Principal - Easy! Designs, LLC
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Lead Developer of the Jetty Open Source Servlet Server
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Group Program Manager for the Atlas Team at Microsoft
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Editor of DevZone for Zend Technologies, Inc.
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Project Lead, Dojo Toolkit & Director of R&D, SitePen
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Application Architect at ThoughtWorks, Inc.
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CEO of Relevance
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Author, speaker, software engineer focused on user interface design.
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Technology Director/Senior Architect @ Sun Microsystems
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Founder of Agile Developer, Inc.
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Chief Technologist at Saven Technologies
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Lead of Spring Web and Creator of Spring Web Flow
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Microsoft Architect Evangelist based in Michigan...
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Creator of Mochikit
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Senior Software Engineer at Near Infinity
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Tech Lead of the Google Web Toolkit (GWT)
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President and Co-founder of Humanized
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Vice President of Technology at Gomez
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Director, User Interface Engineering at Netflix
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Sr. Java Developer @ Navis
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Creator of Script.aculo.us
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Author of Graphic Java and co-author of Core JSF
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Co-author of "The Zen of CSS Design"
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Creator of Rico & Ajax Evangelist at Yahoo!
Stuart Halloway
CEO of Relevance
Blog
Refactoring JavaScript, 2009 Edition
Posted Wednesday, June 17, 2009
I am off to Dallas this morning to give an all-new version of the Refactoring JavaScript talk. This year, we will be looking at testing and refactoring jQuery plugins, using Screw.Unit, Smoke, an more »Rifle-Oriented Programming with Clojure
Posted Wednesday, May 27, 2009
If you come to Clojure from an object-oriented background, you may not know where to start. It is sort of like looking at a rifle for the first time and asking "But where do I put the arrows?" Clojure solves the traditional prob more »Presentations
Proto/taculous 1: Building Ajax Applications
Prototype and Scriptaculous may be the most popular combination in the Ajax world. In this presentation, you will learn to simplify Ajax development with Prototype and Scripty as we work through a series of examples more »Refactoring JavaScript
The rise of Ajax and Rich Web Applications, plus the success of dynamic languages, has caused people to revisit the JavaScript language. Now that we take JavaScript seriously as a language, it is time to get serious about the quality of JavaScript code, t more »Proto/taculous 1: Building Ajax Applications
By Stuart Halloway
Prototype and Scriptaculous may be the most popular combination in the Ajax world. In this presentation, you will learn to simplify Ajax development with Prototype and Scripty as we work through a series of examples.
Examples will include:
* using Ajax.Request to manage XMLHTTPRequest
* automatically updating pages with Ajax.Updater
* polling with PeriodicalExecuter
* managing forms with Form.serialize
* responding to inputs with Event.observe
* sifting the DOM with $ and $$
* simplifying DOM updates with Insertion
* creating and combining core effects
* CSS-driven effects with morph
* autocompletion
* sortable containers
* sound
Refactoring JavaScript
By Stuart Halloway
The rise of Ajax and Rich Web Applications, plus the success of dynamic languages, has caused people to revisit the JavaScript language. Now that we take JavaScript seriously as a language, it is time to get serious about the quality of JavaScript code, through refactoring. In this talk, we will test and refactor a real-world jQuery plugin.
As we refactor a real-world jQuery plugin, you will learn how to
- test JavaScript code with Screw.Unit, Smoke, and blue-ridge
- write covering tests for existing code
- perform common refactorings such as extract method and "use the right tools"
- rethink refactoring in light of functional programming style
- think about when and how refactoring shades into breaking changes and redesign
Books
by Stuart Halloway and Justin Gehtland
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Many Java developers are now looking at Ruby, and the Ruby on Rails web framework. If you are one of them, this book is your guide. Written by experienced developers who love both Java and Ruby, this book will show you, via detailed comparisons and commentary, how to translate your hard-earned Java knowledge and skills into the world of Ruby and Rails.
If you are a Java programmer, you shouldn't have to start at the very beginning! You already have deep experience with the design issues that inspired Rails, and can use this background to quickly learn Ruby and Rails. But Ruby looks a lot different from Java, and some of those differences support powerful abstractions that Java lacks. We'll be your guides to this new, but not strange, territory.
In each chapter, we build a series of parallel examples to demonstrate some facet of web development. Because the Rails examples sit next to Java examples, you can start this book in the middle, or anywhere else you want. You can use the Java version of the code, plus the analysis, to quickly grok what the Rails version is doing. We have carefully cross-referenced and indexed the book to facilitate jumping around as you need to.
Thanks to your background in Java, this one short book can cover a half-dozen books' worth of ideas:
- Programming Ruby
- Building MVC (Model/View/Controller) Applications
- Unit and Functional Testing
- Security
- Project Automation
- Configuration
- Web Services
by Stuart Dabbs Halloway
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- Reveals both the potential and pitfalls of developing components using the Java platform. Delves into the component-oriented features of the Java platform, thoroughly discussing class loading, reflection, serialization, native interoperation, and code generation. Softcover.
by Stuart Halloway
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Clojure is a dynamic language for the Java Virtual Machine, with a compelling combination of features:
Clojure is elegant. Clojure's clean, careful design lets you write programs that get right to the essence of a problem, without a lot of clutter and ceremony.
Clojure is Lisp reloaded. Clojure has the power inherent in Lisp, but is not constrained by the history of Lisp.
Clojure is a functional language. Data structures are immutable, and functions tend to be side-effect free. This makes it easier to write correct programs, and to compose large programs from smaller ones.
Clojure is concurrent. Rather than error-prone locking, Clojure provides software transactional memory.
Clojure embraces Java. Calling from Clojure to Java is direct, and goes through no translation layer.
Clojure is fast. Wherever you need it, you can get the exact same performance that you could get from hand-written Java code.
Many other languages offer some of these features, but the combination of them all makes Clojure sparkle. Programming Clojure shows you why these features are so important, and how you can use Clojure to build powerful programs quickly.