JavaScript, We Hardly new Ya

November 13, 2006

JavaScript is a prototypal language, but it has a new operator that tries to make it look sort of like a classical language. That tends to confuse programmers, leading to some problematic programming patterns. You never need to use new Object() in...

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YUI: Weighing in on Pageweights

October 16, 2006

When we opened up the YUI Library in February, we talked about some of our motivations for creating an entirely new JavaScript toolkit. One of those motivations, we said, was that Yahoo!'s diverse engineering communities demanded a solution that was...

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Implementation Focus: PowerReviews

October 13, 2006

Members of the PowerReviews engineering team: (clockwise from top left) Martin Davidsson, Gautam Prabhu, Jim Morris, Joshua Greenough, Aamir Virani, and Vlod Kalicun. At their Millbrae offices. What is PowerReviews and how long have you been around?...

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