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Geeking Out On JavaScript: Douglas Crockford, John Resig and Erik Meijer at MIX 10

Mar 26, 2010 By Karsten Januszewski

If you haven’t heard, all the sessions are now available for viewing from Mix 10 up at http://live.visitmix.com.  There’s a ton of great sessions up there.

This year, we were thrilled to have two of the giants of Javascript at the conference: Douglas Crockford and John Resig. JavaScript designer and historian Douglas Crockford had a session, The Tale of JavaScript. I Mean ECMAScript. This is a must see if you want to understand the history and evolution of the world’s most popular computer language:

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John Resig, inventor of jQuery, did a session at Mix entitled How jQuery Makes Hard Things Simple. Even if you are a jQuery expert,I’d recommend this session as he dives into some of the new features of jQuery 1.4.2 that are incredibly cool:

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Perhaps most excitingly, we were able to put John and Douglas on a panel as part of the Channel 9 Live series with Microsoft’s Erik Meijer (programming languages guru and creator of LINQ, among other amazing accomplishments) to answer questions from the audience about JavaScript. This is the first time these three titans have shared the stage together. Check it out:

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And, to really geek out on Javascript, check out this recently posted Channel9 video Research Perspectives on JavaScript with Erik Meijer, Ben Livshits and Ben Zorn. These are some amazing research scientists from Microsoft Research who have been doing analysis on JavaScript execution on large-scale, JavaScript heavy web sites.  Along the way, they discuss a variety of topics about the programmable web:

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Lastly, if you want to keep geeking out on killer jQuery sessions that were delivered at MIX 10, check out Six Things Every jQuery Developer Must Know by Elijah Manor and Building a Next-Generation Web Application with Microsoft ASP.NET MVC 2 and jQuery by Nate Kohari.

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pleaaaasee said on Sep 9, 2010

please don''t use silverlight for your video, it is killing me. It freezes up and doesn''t work and I keep having to reload the page.

Yotam said on Apr 17, 2012

What's an alternative to MS-Silverlight for Linux users?

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