Originally posted on 3/29/08 at http://likesalmon.wordpress.com/
I always feel a mixture of excitement and dread when I start a new technical book. I’m about to dive into the intimidatingly thick JavaScript: The Definitive Guide by David Flanagan. Javascript guru Douglas Crockford mentioned in his wonderful series of lectures that it was the best (or did he say “least bad”?) javascript book there is. Truthfully, I have always hated javascript for a number of reasons, but he convinced me that it isn’t that bad. And ok, a little part of me is excited to use classes and learn about prototypal inheritance, which I think just might be the future. Oh yeah, and AJAX. I gotta learn AJAX.
The event that allowed me to turn back to study after lots of time developing websites is the near completion of two big projects. They aren’t perfect, but I’m waiting for some things to fall in place (hosting, etc.) before I can finish them up. I’m actually thankful for the delay, I was feeling a little burnt out.
Time to hit the books!