John Resig and Bibeault are true Javascript Ninja’s
I’m sure you know about John Resig, he’s the creator of JQuery. If you’ve built websites and you’ve never used JQuery, then I recommend starting doing that shit now. like yesterday. The book gets into a variety of advanced Javascript concepts but it emphasizes the problems with old browsers and a lot of debugging. The most important concept in this book is the use of anonymous functions, prototypes, and cross browser strategies.
Although they didn’t use a ninja for the front cover of the book, I thought it was a bit ironic but it works cause the samurai is a noble warrior and I think it looks a lot more pleasing for to know that it’s all just syntax. I know a few security consultants (hackers) that work for Microsoft and Amazon and they would probably see the ninja as their mascot. I can see front end web developers that like javascript utilizing the Samurai although there is a mystery that surrounds the ninja lifestyle.
In one of the test results of Regressions in Chapter 11, the author notes that IE9 added DOM2 Level support for event handlers. Yeah, I never like that proprietary “attachEvent” shit really. It’s a real pain in the ass when you have to do he if-else shit when binding event functions.
Well I hope you get a chance to read the book, Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja