:: CODE Magazine ::

	*Category: Dynamic Languages*
	6 Articles found and displayed in this view. An Overview of Go in Five Examples - Chapter 1 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, April 08, 2013 Quick ID: 1304043 By Mark Summerfield, Published May 4, 2012 by Addison-Wesley Professional. Part of the Developer's Library series. Copyright 2012 Book ISBN-10: 0-321-77463-9 ISBN-13: 978-0-321-77463-7. Mark Summerfield provides a series of five explained examples of the Go programming language. Although the examples are tiny, each of them (apart from "hello who?") does something useful, and between them they provide a rapid overview of Go's key features and some of its key packages. Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and javaScript UNLEASHED - Chapter 1 Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, April 01, 2013 Quick ID: 1304033 In Windows 8 Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript Unleashed, author Stephen Walther covers everything you need to build, test, and distribute outstanding Windows 8 software with JavaScript and HTML5. Walther clearly demonstrates the unique advantages Windows 8 offers to web developers. He guides you through using Microsoft’s new WinJS library to develop apps for Microsoft’s brand-new version of Windows--you learn how to use JavaScript templates, controls, and data binding. You’ll find in-depth coverage of everything from displaying data with a ListView control to supporting SkyDrive cloud storage, creating games to using IndexedDB and HTML5 forms. Chapter 7 from Murach’s JavaScript and jQuery. Magazine/Issue: Online CoDe Magazine, Book Excerpts Release Date: Monday, February 04, 2013 Quick ID: 1301013 Now that you have the JavaScript skills that you need for using jQuery, you’re ready to learn jQuery. So, in chapter 7, you’ll learn a working subset of jQuery that will get you off to a fast start. And in chapter 8, you’ll learn how to use the jQuery effects and animations that can bring a web page to life. The “Danger” of Dynamic Languages Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012 Quick ID: 1206051 Back in 2005, when Ruby on Rails started appearing on developers’ radars, there was an explosion of blogs and articles discussing how dangerous these loosey goosey languages were, with their hippy dynamic typing. And many predicted dire fates for companies foolish enough to take the plunge. Regular readers are certainly familiar with Ted Neward, who makes technology predictions each year on his blog. Here’s what Ted said on January 1, 2006: Grokking the DLR: Why it’s Not Just for Dynamic Languages Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012 Quick ID: 1206091 Many .NET developers have heard of the Dynamic Language Runtime (DLR) but they don’t quite know what to make of it. Developers working in languages like C# and Visual Basic sometimes shirk dynamic programming languages because they fear the scalability problems that have historically been associated with using them. Also of concern is the fact that languages like Python and Ruby don’t perform compile-time type checking, which can lead to runtime errors that are very costly to find and fix. These are valid concerns that may explain why the DLR hasn’t enjoyed more popularity among mainstream .NET developers in the two years since its official release. After all, any .NET Runtime that has the words Dynamic and Language in its title must be strictly for creating and supporting languages like Python, right? Dynamic Languages 101 Magazine/Issue: CoDe Magazine, 2012 May/Jun Release Date: Thursday, April 19, 2012 Quick ID: 1206071 Much hoopla has been generated across the community about dynamic languages; much of it is spoken in the same glowing terms normally reserved for unicorns and rainbows. Some of it is deserved, some of it isn’t. All of it seems to surround two languages—JavaScript and Ruby—but in fact, several other languages, three of which I’ll present here, offer some distinctly interesting and useful features.