Rails spinoffs - Jan 2008 - JavaScript book recommendations

No, not a question, but a few suggestions.

I take it that everyone serious about using Prototype & Co. already has 
Christophe''s (Porteneuve) Prototype and Script.aculo.us book. Apart 
from that, I''d like to point out two new, library-agnostic books:

Cameron Adams and several others
The Art & Science of JavaScript
Sitepoint 2008
http://www.sitepoint.com/books/jsdesign1/
(excerpt: http://www.sitepoint.com/print/art-science-javascript)

The title is quite a mouthful ("science"?). From my limited
perspective
this is currently the only book that really touches on advanced topics. 
I particularly recommend the chapter on metaprogramming by Dan Webb. 
Dan wrote Low Pro, an unobtrusive JS plugin for Rails, and refers to it 
in the chapter.

Ross Harmes, Dustin Diaz
Pro JavaScript Design Patterns
Apress 2008
http://jsdesignpatterns.com/
http://www.dustindiaz.com/pro-javascript-design-patterns/

This is an intermediate book for people who have the basics of JS under 
their belt. To me, the value of this book lies in the first part, 
Object-Oriented JavaScript, that is a guide to well-written 
object-oriented JS using state of the art programming idioms. I''m not 
psyched by the second part, Design Patterns. It serves as an 
introduction, although I''d recommend the classic Design Patterns book 
by Gamma et al. to get the full treatment of considerations when and 
why to use patterns.

Michael

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Michael Schuerig
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http://www.schuerig.de/michael/

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Michael Schuerig a écrit :
> I take it that everyone serious about using Prototype & Co. already has
> Christophe''s (Porteneuve) Prototype and Script.aculo.us book.
Apart
Awww, you sweet pea :-)  That should make for about 2K serious people 
out there, then :-)  So far.
> object-oriented JS using state of the art programming idioms. I''m
not
> psyched by the second part, Design Patterns. It serves as an 
> introduction, although I''d recommend the classic Design Patterns
book
> by Gamma et al. to get the full treatment of considerations when and 
> why to use patterns.
Plus, design patterns seem to me like they usually are most useful on 
significant code masses, and wen we''re constrained by static typing.  I
used them a lot in Java/JEE work, but seldom find the need to roll out 
my own DP implementation in JS or Ruby, for instance.  So I guess this 
part of the book may be of interest to framework authors more than to 
framework users, for instance.

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