Velocity 2011: Douglas Crockford, "JavaScript & Metaperformance"

[davidflotzinger]

In my opinion D. Crockford is (among many other of the Yahoo-guys) one of the most intellligent person in context of web development, making everthing faster/better/more efficient. I'm also thanking him, beeing in the ECMA-group and for his actions there; I definitly am at his point about HTML5, etc etc.

-> however this sounded pretty arrogant, and he has to get down to earth, to get my reverence.... JM2C

[aserron]

@davidflotzinger Fully agree. He keep it simple and solid, doesn't need fancy talk to go to the point.

Im not agree with the DOM managment since HE open my eyes in one of those presentations, quite boring to some people.

He is fighting to get a independant javascript layer that could run without caring about DOM element stuff.

[Flynn0r]

JavaScript is the most popular programming language because THERE IS NO BLOODY ALTERNATIVE, and not because it's especially good.

[aserron]

@Flynn0r The awfull kid became the most desired playboy. Really its a glimps of what we gonna expect for languages,

Dynamic, Extensible, Scalable, Portable.

[cstrosser]

The lesson of that little parable that starts around 9:08 is that...

Looking is the key.

It is often found in books on Buddhism.

[aserron]

@cstrosser Then you get the "Zen State Of Art" of development.

[sunnyjacob137]

"This was the first important discovery of the 21st century" LOL so true :)

11:37

[aserron]

@sunnyjacob137

Es "el".

Despues te cuelgo otro en el que cuenta cuando llamo a google para pasarles un bech para medir la verdadera performance, no sintetica del motor de js.