David Flanagan is a computer programmer who spends most of his time
writing about JavaScript and Java. His books with O'Reilly include Java
in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a
Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket
Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering from
the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He lives with his wife and
children in the U.S. Pacific Northwest bewteen the cities of Seattle,
Washington and Vancouver, British Columbia. David has a blog at
www.davidflanagan.com.
My colleagues at the Mozilla Foundation want to "create a web literate planet" and "educate a generation of web makers". Some are working to figure out just what those phrases mean. While others are just going out and teaching stuff.... read more
Mark Surman, the head of the Mozilla Foundation, has proposed that as part of Mozilla's mission ("to promote openness, innovation and opportunity on the web") we should work to "create a web literate planet". His vision inspires me: if... read more
The Mozilla Firefox Challenge celebrity fundraiser contest has ended, and the JavaScript community's entry, TeamJS did amazingly well: We raised $25,000 for Feeding America, a US charity that collects surplus food on a massive scale and distributes it to a... read more
I've been thinking a lot recently about Mozilla's mission to promote the open web. Part of that mission, a part I'd like to be involved in, has been described as "educating the next generation of web makers" and as... read more
I'm a big fan of subscription music: I love the model of being able to listen to whatever you want whenever you want. Its all out there on the web and I don't have to be bothered with actually owning... read more
If you weren't paying attention to the #teamjs hashtag on Twitter on Friday, you missed out on a lot of excitement and a great JavaScript community moment. If you were part of the fun, then you probably know all... read more
Friday was a lot of fun! We went from nowhere to first place with $12,000 in donations for Feeding America. But we were so successful that we actually have a chance to win, which means that we can't just... read more
(If you don't live in the US, you can skip it.) The US Census Bureau calculates that in 2008, 15% of US households were "food insecure". A slightly older version of that data is broken down by county and... read more
Mozilla is sponsoring The Mozilla Firefox Challenge, a celebrity fundraiser. Mozilla has donated $5000 to the favorite charity of 12 Hollywood celebrities and will donate $25,000 more to the charity of whichever celebrity can raise the most for their cause.... read more
I had a little twitter rant this morning about classes in JavaScript. (Actually, the rant was really about the attitude that seems to be behind much of the "don't add classes to JavaScript" commentary I see.) So I should... read more
I've recently blogged about CoverMonkey, a code coverage tool for Mozilla's SpiderMonkey JavaScript interpreter and my JavaScript HTML parser. One of the really useful things you can do with a code coverage tool is check whether your test suites are... read more
The project I've been working on in Mozilla's research group is dom.js: an implementation of the browser DOM in JavaScript. I've gotten much of the core DOM 4 document tree functionality implemented, and have started on DOM features defined... read more
Back in January I posted an IndexedDB example that showed how to initialize and query a database of zipcodes using the HTML5 IndexedDB API. That API has been evolving, and Kyle Huey from Mozilla has updated my example to work... read more
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