01.Nov.2010 at 18:59 by Ido
Good intro.
Specially, if you 'know' noting about JS.
JavaScript for PHP Developers
Ed Finkler (01.Nov.2010 at 09:00)
Workshop at ZendCon 2010 (English - US)
Most PHP developers have at least dabbled with JavaScript – used a jQuery plugin to add tooltips, or maybe a simple AJAX call to pull data from a PHP backend service. As the client side gets heavier and more complex, though, PHP developers need to know JavaScript. Thankfully, JavaScript is an interesting, concise language that's very well suited for front-end development – and other tasks.
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01.Nov.2010 at 20:02 by Chris Tankersley
Helped explain things coming from a PHP perspective. Great as an intro into JS.
01.Nov.2010 at 22:49 by Carl Anderson
I love Ed's presentation style, and it's obvious he knows his stuff--not just JavaScript, but PHP as well. I learned a decent amount of material in this densely packed talk. That said, it would have been far more useful if Ed had done things in a true "tutorial" fashion--that is, if he had said, "We're going to build application X, and in doing so, you'll learn about prototype chains, anonymous functions, and so on." As it was, it was more of a show-and-tell...which can be useful, just not quite as much. I'm still glad I went, and would happily attend another talk by Ed, but I think if he gives this talk again he'd do well to revise the presentation somewhat.
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02.Nov.2010 at 18:58 by Ed Finkler
That's something to consider, Carl. It's a bigger undertaking, for sure, and hard to get everyone on the same page software/tools wise.
01.Nov.2010 at 18:58 by Derick Rethans
Good introduction, especially the inheritance stuff as that I didn't understand.