Will’s Blog

Oh look, so Microsoft is creating an Atlas hey?

Actually, it’s their codename for their new “Web client framework” which will provide us (developers) with tools for developing AJAX style applications.

I think what web developers really want is a really good JavaScript IDE. Well, I do anyway… And i’ve seen lots of posts around to place (mostly web forums) where people are asking questions like “what is the best JavaScript IDE out there?”

JavaScript’s been around for awhile, it’s not going to go away anytime soon.

I think people should really start exploring Object Orientated JavaScript. The way that JavaScript does its’ OO is fairly different from the way say C#/Java etc do OO.

Exploring some of the below articles you’ll get introduced to a term called “prototyping”. If you already get inheritance, then looking at the code here and you’ll get prototyping straight away. Just one of the many new terms you’ll start seeing a lot of when exploring the below articles on OOJS as they call it!

For those that want to get up to speed with OO JavaScript, here’s a few articles.

From Code Project: Part 1 Part 2 and Part 3.

From JavaScriptkit.com: JavaScript and Object Oriented Programming (OOP)

From WebRerence.com: Object-Oriented Programming with JavaScript Part 1 Object-Oriented Programming Part 2

JavaScript can be a mess if you don’t write it well, which is basically the same any other piece of code you don’t write well. It’s a mess and a headache to go back to and debug later.

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