Tagged with objects

Javascript prototype chaining

Prototype chaining is used to build new types of objects based on existing ones. It has a very similar job to inheritance in a class based language.
Published in Javascript on Monday, August 17th, 2009

VBUG London javascript objects presentation

I just got back from doing a talk about javascript objects at London VBUG. Thanks to everyone who came! I really enjoyed doing the talk and all the great questions you guys asked. Anyway I promised to put links up to all the relevant stuff from my talk. I’ve uploaded my slides and samples. I’m [...]
Published in Community on Wednesday, November 12th, 2008

Object oriented javascript slides and samples

I’m off to do a user group talk tomorrow night about object oriented javascript. :) Here are all the talk materials including slides, all samples and my list of bullet points I used to remind me what I wanted to talk about for anyone who went to the talk and wanted to take a look [...]
Published in Javascript, My presentations, Web development on Sunday, August 31st, 2008

Building simple objects

Javascript objects are basically just hash tables, a group of related properties and functions that can be accessed by a key. Properties are dynamically added at runtime. Methods are just properties that happen to be functions. Building a simple object The simplest way to build objects in Javascript is by declaring a new variable of [...]
Published in Javascript on Sunday, August 17th, 2008

How javascript objects work

This is a series of articles about how to use the javascript language features to write object oriented type code. It's designed for people who are already sold on the idea of bundling functionality up into objects and want to know the javascript way of doing things.
Published in Javascript on Sunday, August 17th, 2008

Speaking at DDD4

I did my first ever developer developer developer day talk on the weekend. I went as a delegate to the second one and thought it was a really great day so it was really exciting to go speak there. I did a talk about developing objects in Javascript and talked about the basic things you [...]
Published in Community on Tuesday, December 5th, 2006