If you’ve logged into Facebook lately, you couldn’t have missed the new design. This design brings some much needed features. I especially appreciate the ability to filter my News Feed by friend group. Since I already keep my friends in separate groups (a painstaking process), this was a freebie for me.
But overall, Facebook disappoints for several reasons.
Wow. It’s been almost 2 years since I’ve finished a technical blog post! I’ve started plenty, but have just never quite finished any. I figure it’s either because I try to tackle too much in a single post and/or because I am way too picky about the topic. Anyways, here’s a new blog post to prove I didn’t actually fall off the face of the Earth!
In my previous post, I laid out the basic Javascript inheritance mechanism, prototype chaining. In this post, I’ll elaborate on it a bit more by showing how I took this basic concept and created something workable for some very bright, but prototype-phobic programmers: Oracle Life Sciences division’s Java developers! (Java and Javascript couldn’t be more different in almost every regard, especially concerning inheritance.)
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Most of the Javascript I write is object-oriented. While deciding what I would write about in my first posts, I realized that I would probably have to review Javascript OO techniques first. Any source code I included would be unintelligible to the uninitiated. In this post — and in the subsequent ones — I will review the Javascript inheritance techniques I use and explain why and when I use them.