Hello. My name is Derek Perez. I write software, particularly for the internets.
Amazing talk by Jeremy Ashkenas and Brendan Eich, both are massive contributors to the world of JavaScript. This is a fantastic walkthrough of the state of JS across the browser and elsewhere. I am amazed by the current JavaScript landscape, and I am looking forward to its future!
I really enjoyed the quotes in the first half of this slide deck. Lots of sound advice in terms of software architecture. I’m happy to say we’ve mostly followed these rules.
Brian lays out the UNIX philosophy in simple terms, applies it to practice (wrt PhoneGap). This is a great slide deck, lots of wisdom to gleam from him, thanks for putting this together, Brian!
Haskell (and monads) are on my list of things to learn and do in the world of functional programming. This article is mindblowing. Totally made me think differently about how I write my JavaScript code. Be enlightened, watch the video!
Jeremy Ashkenas discussing his very popular/controversial meta-language, CoffeeScript I am actually a huge CoffeeScript fan and we use it everywhere in our stack at Orchestra. It provides all kinds of fantastic DSL facilities + compile-step functionality to our codebases.
This is a great video explaining what it is and how it works.
Orchestra is working with JavaScript and CouchDB in a serious way. Can’t wait to share it with you :)
I’ve been working with Mr. Scott Robbins on his fantastic jQuery PageSlide plugin for the last few weeks. It has been a lot of fun, we’ve moved the project off of google code completely, and today have released version 1.1 of PageSlide on Github. version 1.1 is essentially a complete re-write touting a ton of new/awesome features, here is a list from the README:
I am very excited about this plugin, and will be using it in some of my projects very shortly! If you like the project, please “watch it” on Github and tweet about it and stuff while you’re at it :)
Get jQuery PageSlide here, it works with jQuery 1.26 and up!
EDIT: Live demo can be found here: http://derekperez.com/jquery-pageslide/demo/
