javascript

For the past few weeks, I've been participating in Boston PHP's jQuery jAM.

Like a lot of programmers, I've begun to wonder what all the fuss is about regarding HTML5. Casting about, I found Mark Pilgrim's fantastic tutorial on HTML5, appropriately titled "Dive into HTML5". I've been mucking with the canvas element, testing out the basics, and I put together a small web page showing a very simple random but colorful "box" generator.

I'm writing a small JavaScript program to implement the simple game of "Concentrate". A few weeks ago, I borrowed JavaScript: The Good Parts, by Douglas Crockford. It's a terrific little book on what's good about JavaScript. I admit freely that my JavaScript programming skills are mostly at the "cut and paste" level, but writing a small game will force me to get beyond this level, and to penetrate some of the patterns in Crockford's book. I'm hopeful to be blogging about this soon!