Last Friday the Sydney-based Confluence team headed out to world famous IT-suburb Manly for a one-day workshop to learn more about advanced JavaScript and JQuery, the JavaScript-library that Confluence will standardize upon. Obviously it was pure coincidence that the weather was fine, the coffee great and the beers cold, and we were positively surprised to find out that a nice beach was just across the road…
Upon arrival in Manly, Dmitry, our revered JavaScrip-guru and general CSS&Typography fanatic introduced us to the wonderful world of Script-Craft, which included closures, prototypes and loose typing. Being hardcore backend Java-developers didn’t exactly give us a big advantage here — our heads were spinning, but we did pretty well on the exercises. Or so we think. Would you know how to:
Add to any number the function “times” which will run some function N times.
(5).times(function () {alert(this);});
The original plan was to squeeze in 6.5 hours of presentations and exercises on JQuery, but to be honest, we only got to 5 hours. Let me explain: I blame the weather! Huge clouds were beginning to show on the horizon, so we ditched our plans (agile!) and hit the beach right after lunch. When we returned to lessons, our energy levels were quite low after that, so after Matt’s presentation of JQuery, and another hour of exercises we called it a day, and headed straight for a cold beer in a nearby bar.
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