JavaScript Development Links

• JScript Documentation
  Here's where to find the documentation on Microsoft's JScript.



• JScript .Net Article Series
  This is one of the only JScript .NET specific series of articles I have found on the net and they are very helpful. This is actually a link to the last one, but it contains links to all of the others.



• JavaScript: The World's Most Misunderstood Programming Language By Douglas Crockford
  This article uncovers the first-class language features that JavaScript has supported for years.



• JSON Site
  This is the official source of information on the JSON (Java Script Object Notation) format for serialization of objects into a string. This is especially helpful for communication between client and server in Ajax.



• EcmaScript 4 Site (JavaScript 2)
  Here's where the next version of JavaScript is brewing.



• JavaScript 2 Presentation
  This presentation explains the planned future of JavaScript.



• Douglas Crockford's Advanced JavaScript Video
  "Douglas Crockford is 'Yoda of lambda programming and JavaScript' (according to Brendan Eich), and he shows it in his presentations on all things JavaScript." He demonstrates that JavaScript isn't really a toy but a power tool.



• Prototypal Inheritence
  Douglas Crockford's way of "untangling the constructor pattern."



• JavaScript Coding Conventions
  It's a good idea to have coding convention between the members of your team when you are programming together. I like to treat the convention as a goal to attain to. This really helps to unify your team and together improve the code as time goes by.

Links About Dynamic Languages

• Are Dynamic Languages Going to Replace Static Languages? By Robert C. Martin
  This blog post suggests that when test-driving, static typing doesn't seem necessary.



• Strong Typing vs. Strong Testing By Bruce Eckel
  This blog post explains why testing is really what is needed more than just type checking.



• Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century By John K. Ousterhout
  Explains why scripting languages may be better suited to our programming needs today.

JavaScript Testing

• JSNUnit JavaScript Testing Framework
  If you are looking for a way to Do Test-Driven Development on in-line ASP .NET code or write Ajax code using the same language on the client and the server or write .NET code in a dynamically typed language or use a simple testing framework you customize for your team Speed up development by avoiding the compiling process. You may want this.



• OpenSourceTesting.org
  Here you will find other testing frameworks and tools such as JsUnit, JsMock, and CrossCheck.

Ajax

• Ajax: A New Approach to Web Applications
  This was the person who invented the term. It is a very good overview of what Ajax is.

Intellectual Property

• 10 Big Myths about copyright explained
  This link takes you to an article about copyrighting software. It is interesting to me because it explains how easy it is to make intellectual property.

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