Javascript: 8 Reasons Every PHP Developer Should Love It

JavaScript 8 Reasons Every PHP Developer Should Love It Boy Baukema 24 January 2008 1

Welcome! 2 2

What I’ll cover - 8 Reasons to love JavaScript - JavaScript to PHP - Availability - Lambda functions & closures - Libraries - Future - Resources - Q&A 3 3

Gmail? 4 4

jQuery? Prototype.js? Dojo? 5 5

Quirksmode.org? 6 6

JavaScript Evangelist @ 7 7

1. JavaScript is misunderstood 8 8

2. JavaScript IS the web 9 9

3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE Do we really need graceful degradation? 10 10

3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE 11 11

4. JavaScript has lambda functions VS 16 16

4. JavaScript has lambda functions VS 17 17

4. JavaScript has lambda functions PHP 4 >= 4.0.1, PHP 5 18 18

4. JavaScript has lambda functions PHP 5.3 19 19

4. JavaScript has lambda functions 20 20

4. JavaScript has lambda functions 21 21

5. JavaScript has closures Javascript closure example 22 22

5. JavaScript has closures PHP closure 23 23

5. JavaScript has closures PHP closure continued... “I never thought I'd say this, but I miss closures.” - Marco Tabini, php|architect 24 24

6. JavaScript is different 25 25

7. Small and easy to extend 26 26

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8. JavaScript is the future “JavaScript is probably the most important language in the world today.“ - Steve Yegge (ex-Amazon, now Google) “Our JIT compiler generates code that is roughly equivalent to the performance of unoptimized C code (gcc -O0).” - Andreas Gal, Mozilla Tracemonkey dev 28 28

Learn JavaScript! 29 29

8 Reasons 1. JavaScript is misunderstood 2. JavaScript IS the web 3. JavaScript is EVERYWHERE 4. JavaScript has lambda functions 5. JavaScript has closures 6. JavaScript is different 7. Small and easy to extend 8. JavaScript is the future 30 30

Thank you! http://tinyurl.com/ilovejs Contact details: Boy Baukema boy@ibuildings.nl http://twitter.com/relaxnow 31

Questions ? 32 32

Javascript: 8 Reasons Every PHP Developer Should Love It

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