Nicholas C. Zakas eBooks

If you're like most developers, you rely heavily on JavaScript to build interactive and quick-responding web applications. The problem is that all of those lines of JavaScript code can slow down your apps. This book reveals techniques and strategies to help you eliminate performance bottlenecks during development. You'll learn how to improve execution time, downloading, interaction with the DOM, page life cycle, and more.Yahoo! frontend engineer Nicholas C. Zakas and five other JavaScript experts-Ross Harmes, Julien Lecomte, Steven Levithan, Stoyan Stefanov, and Matt Sweeney-demonstrate optimal ways to load code onto a page, and offer programming tips to help your JavaScript run as efficiently and quickly as possible. You'll learn the best practices ...

If you've used a more traditional object-oriented language, such as C++ or Java, JavaScript probably doesn't seem object-oriented at all. It has no concept of classes, and you don't even need to define any objects in order to write code. But don't be fooledJavaScript is an incredibly powerful and expressive object-oriented language that puts many design decisions right into your hands. In The Principles of Object-Oriented JavaScript, Nicholas C. Zakas thoroughly explores JavaScript's object-oriented nature, revealing the language's unique implementation of inheritance and other key characteristics. You'll learn:The difference between primitive and reference values What makes JavaScript functions so unique The various ways to create objects How to def...

Dispels the myth that JavaScript is a "baby" language and demonstrates why it is the scripting language of choice used in the design of millions of Web pages and server-side applicationsQuickly covers JavaScript basics and then moves on to more advanced topics such as object-oriented programming, XML, Web services, and remote scriptingAddresses the many issues that Web application developers face, including internationalization, security, privacy, optimization, intellectual property issues, and obfuscationBuilds on the reader's basic understanding of HTML, CSS, and the Web in generalThis book is also available as part of the 4-book JavaScript and Ajax Wrox Box (ISBN: 0470227818). This 4-book set includes:Professional JavaScript for Web Deve...