Introducing Professional JavaScript Frameworks, my first multi-author book project and the result of almost 2 years’ writing, editing, revising, and cat herding. The author roster changed a few times in the process, as did the editorial oversight, but finally the thing’s hitting shelves.

This one’s been a long time coming, but it’s finally sitting in my grubby little hands:

My contribution to this book includes all of the material from The Concise Guide to Dojo, plus a second concise guide worth of material on the MooTools JS framework. In addition to my work, you can find the work of Ara Pehlivanian on YUI, Scott Koon on Prototype, and Harley Jones on ExtJS.

Oh hey, look! It’s another blog post—and this one is cross-posted on hacks.mozilla.com. I won’t say this is the start of a renewed blogging habit, but let’s see what happens.

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Drag and drop is one of the most fundamental interactions afforded by graphical user interfaces. In one gesture, it allows users to pair the selection of an object with the execution of an action, often including a second object in the operation. It’s a simple yet powerful UI concept used to support copying, list reordering, deletion (ala the Trash / Recycle Bin), and even the creation of link relationships.

Update 4/14: So, I liked rev="canonical", but I like the notion of pages offering sets of alternative URLs better. There are enough cracks in the case for rev="canonical" to stop caring about it and instead focus on the notion behind it. However it’s expressed—is it rel="shortlink" now?—the final remaining things I’d like to see are:

juliasegal:

mattfoley2:

classics: On the set of Ghostbusters

I favorited a YouTube video: 1st Hop Addition for batch of Stone Smoked Porter - 28 pounds of Simcoe hop pellets.

I favorited a YouTube video: Wait, he sings?