As I walk the earth attempting to fulfill my mission of helping software developers do their thing, I’ve stumbled upon a few important truths. One of these truths is that even though we aspire to an open, agnostic world, developers still tend to live in one programming language or another. So it’s good to build out that last mile of support to developers in their language of choice.
So it is with great pride that we roll out the first in a series of language-specific developer centers at Yahoo! — the Yahoo! JavaScript Developer Center. This is a collection of links, articles and code examples intended for use by Javascript developers who are interested in using Yahoo! technology to build applications. Our support for Javascript is vast — from AJAX applications, to widgets, to Maps, there’s quite a lot there.
One of the gems of today’s launch is our support for JSON. This is a Web services paradigm that makes it much easier for developers to create AJAX applications that run in the browser without the need for an intermediate proxy server, by safely bypassing cross-browser scripting restrictions. It’s a super cool and easy way to create dynamic applications that use Yahoo! web services in Javascript.
I don’t normally like to preannounce products, but I should mention that we are working on a few more interesting additions to the JavaScript developer center that we’ll add soon. We are also planning additional language-specific developer centers (PHP and .NET are a few that we’re interested in making available soon).
Finally, the most excellent Laura of my team pulled all this today and burned the midnight oil to create new content for the center. I’m sure you’ll agree that she did a terrific job. If you have feedback or would like to ask questions about our offerings for Javascript developers, please join our Javascript developers Yahoo! group.
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That’s fantastic news! I soooo wish i’d learnt JS years back – i had a couple of books and made several half hearted stabs at learning but never worked up enough enthusiasm to get further than the basics.
I dont think there’s ever been a better time for skilled JS hackers than right now.
JSON, otra idea que mola
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