Comments on: Express yourself!

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:54:18 +0000

Ah… I see. Will use it the next time when I need it. Thanks

By: James

James — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 18:13:38 +0000

@Alex, to get the numerical representation of a date, it’s basically the same as (new Date()).getTime():

+new Date(); // => 1256148807292

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 14:12:36 +0000

James! – why do you use it?

By: Alex

Alex — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 10:15:20 +0000

I did not quite get the point of the plus operator in “+new Date()” – why do you use it?

By: Live-Dimension

Live-Dimension — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 06:38:07 +0000

As you’ll learn from your Java course, this is pretty bog-standard stuff across most languages, with some stuff here and there taken out/put in, depending on the language. This is why it’s said that you learn one language you’ve learnt them all.

Having said that, more sources (such as this piece) is desperately needed, as there’s some things about javascript itself I didn’t know.

For example, it supports this

condition?expression1:expression2

It’s not always easy to find out what a language can/cant do, especially when pressed for time when a simple if/else does the same job.

By: Phunky

Phunky — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 20:00:45 +0000

Lovely write up James – think i’ll need to read over some of it again as some of it didn’t quite sync in.

I noticed you twittering about this book earlier today and i guess it inspired this post i’ll make sure i get my hands on it after this recommendation.

By: Ali Koubeissi

Ali Koubeissi — Wed, 19 Aug 2009 18:53:44 +0000

Nice read.

I highly recommend this book though: Wrox – Professional JavaScript For Web Developers 2nd Edition. I urge you to read it. It changed the way I look at Javascript.