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Chris Shiflett

Hi, I’m Chris, a web craftsman making things like Mapalong & Brooklyn Beta with my friends at Analog.

Web Craftsmanship & Commentary

Apr 2012

JavaScript Study Guide

A few months ago, I wrote about learning JavaScript. I'm already pretty comfortable with the language, and although I did break the chain, I'm happy to report that I'm still at it. Never stop learning, right? …

Mar 2012

Brooklyn Beta 2012

Brooklyn Beta is becoming more than a conference. It's still a conference, too, and although I never did recap last year's conference like I wanted to, I did collect a bunch of posts, photos, and videos on …

Svbtle Versus Obtvse

I just read a post by Daniel Howells about these two stories on Hacker News: Codename: Svbtle by Dustin Curtis Codename: Obtvse Before I make my small point, let me give you the quick synops…

Ideas of March

I love blogs. A year ago today, I tried to start a sort of blogging revival. To my great surprise and delight, it kinda worked. For a while, I could find really interesting stuff to read every day by just brow…

Hacking Rails (and GitHub)

Hacker News exploded yesterday with news of GitHub being hacked. Wanting to know what all the fuss was about, I began with GitHub's side of the story: A GitHub user exploited a security vulnerability in the…

URL Encoding and Hashbang Hell

Thanks to reader Steve Gricci, I have learned that BackTweets no longer exists, presumably because BackType was acquired by Twitter. (Regardless, why let the domain expire?) Until today, I have been using Back…

Feb 2012

Speaking at Boston PHP

If you're going to be in or around Boston tomorrow (Wednesday) night, I hope you'll join me at the Microsoft NERD Center, where I'll be giving my first talk in more than a year and a half. I'm going to be s…

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codylindley wrote:

You might find some useful stuff in this slide deck. http://portal.sliderocket.com/BOEBK/how-to…

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David Anderson wrote:

You missed the best and most comprehensive JS book of all time. Javascript: The Definitive Guide

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Andrew Gale wrote:

codeavengers.com

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Andrew Gale wrote:

How could you forget http://codeavengers.com

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Robert Huzzey wrote:

Here's another great post I just finished reading all about OOP & inheritance in js: http://manuel…

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80by20 wrote:

You should watch the Crockford videos before anything else. On http://addyosmani.com/blog/ you can…

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John Schulz wrote:

Glad you're sticking with it. I'll co-sign Padolsey's comments on PHPjs and add that JSHint is m…

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Rob Friesel wrote:

I've always though of Zakas' Professional JavaScript for Web Developers as the text book to the JS …

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