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• Build a stylish image gallery using Lightbox 2 and JavaScript by Brett D. McLaughlin   - [Clicks: 2]
  The Web has increasingly become a medium for showing off art. From candid snapshots taken by an amateur photographer to professional art galleries, Web pages are primary vehicles for displaying images. But a beautiful image is hindered—or aided—by its frame. Using a simple JavaScript library, you can "frame" your online images beautifully and provide an intuitive user interface along the way.
  [Includes sample code]
  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-ltbox/index.html - Oct, 2008
• Creating modular interactive user interfaces with JavaScript by Greg Travis   - [Clicks: 4]
  Discover a technique that lets you move sections of a Web page using drag-and-drop functions. Different aspects of the interactivity are implemented separately and then composed into a unified whole, allowing for flexible customization that can make your Web users very happy.
  [Includes sample code]
  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/web/library/wa-aj-rearrange/index.html - Sep, 2008
• Object Oriented JavaScript Demonstrated by Stoyan Stefanov   - [Clicks: 2]
  In this chapter from his book Object-Oriented JavaScript, author Stoyan Stefanov talks about primitive data types in JavaScript as a prelude to discussing more complex concepts.
  http://www.theserverside.com/tt/articles/article.tss?l=OOJavaScriptDemonstrated - Sep, 2008
• E4X: JavaScript on steroids by Grace Walker   - [Clicks: 4]
  Learn to use ECMAScript (aka JavaScript) for XML (E4X), and discover the capabilities of the E4X enhancement, which was designed to facilitate simple and easy parsing, calculating, editing, and related activities on XML data.
  http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-javascript4x.html - Jul, 2008
• Introducing Multithreaded Programming to JavaScript by Daisuke Maki   - [Clicks: 6]
  While increasingly more websites are utilizing AJAX, it is still difficult to develop complicated AJAX applications. This article explores how multithreading eases some of these issues.
  http://www.infoq.com/articles/js_multithread - Jul, 2008

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• JavaScript: The Good Parts  by Douglas Crockford
  Most programming languages contain good and bad parts, but JavaScript has more than its share of the bad, having been developed and released in a hurry before it could be refined. This authoritative book scrapes away these bad features to reveal a subset of JavaScript that's more reliable, readable, and maintainable than the language as a whole-a subset you can use to create truly extensible and efficient code.
   - May, 2008

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