Comments on: Maintainable JavaScript videos are now available.

By: jonhartmann

jonhartmann — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 17:50:47 +0000

Yeah I think that the rating is hacked. I liked the presentations, and I learned some stuff from it as well. I’d never seen the use of a configuration block like in his example app, but it was exactly what I needed for my work. I’ve already felt the pain of saying “oh, I need to search the related JS files and find all references to the ID and update them.” putting them all as a kind of #define’d block just never occurred to me.

By: icoloma

icoloma — Tue, 14 Oct 2008 07:55:33 +0000

I agree, the material is good (the presentation skills and the contents). I don’t think these are 252 real votes.

By: kissmyawesome

kissmyawesome — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 13:51:43 +0000

I was also surprised at the low rating. There might not be anything revolutionary in these videos, but they did contain a ton of solid, practical advice. I’ll definitely be looking into Chris’ tutorial builder, too.

By: phiggins

phiggins — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 12:54:11 +0000

@eyelidlessness: I totally agree — I watched both of them, and enjoyed thoroughly.

How can you mod down something that suggests you shouldn’t be required to write in a particular code style, and that the repository’s post-commit hooks should do that cleanup?

Not only did it reinforce my thoughts maintainable projects and working in teams, it shared insights into how both YUI (and Dojo) helps to write this level of maintainable/professional code — teaching as a best practice for small projects and implying absolute necessity of modularization (and functional programming) in large projects.

Maybe writing fragile code provides some job security, making the items to be learned from these presentations seem like blasphemous attacks on the utility libraries who don’t have functionality for internationalization, package loading, a built in “build” process … among other things.

Come to think of it: I’ve never seen 100+ votes on any particular article on this site, good or bad. Excellent video(s) Chris. Very insightful, especially for people newer to the idea of maintainable javascript. Keep em’ coming.

By: eyelidlessness

eyelidlessness — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 07:11:33 +0000

Did anyone watch these videos? They were very good, and provided a wealth of information and ideas (which is saying a lot, given what most posts on this site provide). The low rating for this post is astonishing to me. Did you all not get your glassreflectionfavicongenratr fix today?