Jonathan Grimes
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With all the pending legislation like Protect-IP, SOPA and the DMCA before it, I just have to wonder how long we as humans will go until we realize you can’t control something that’s not yours to control. So long as people want things there will be theft, piracy and what have you.
The intent of these legislations (publicly at least) is to stop digital piracy and stimulate innovation [insert "Road to Hell" quote here]. So how about instead of making more laws and making more things illegal, how about we go in the other direction.
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A few friends and acquaintances have asked me for some pointers and resources for learning how to become a web app developer. Since this has started to become a rather frequent request, I thought I’d share some thoughts here. I’ll probably update the links as I come across more, or decide I don’t like some of the ones I have. I’m pretty picky about where I send people, so expect changes and/or additions.
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If you liked my previous posts, then head over to the ExtJS docs for my more in depth tutorial on testing applications written with ExtJS using Jasmine: http://docs.sencha.com/ext-js/4-0/#!/guide/testing
I’ve been looking for a way to perform unit tests on my new project’s UI code. The projects I worked on before were practically prepackaged and handed to me — Java has a pretty mature testing and build suite: JUnit and Maven. My current project is 99% JavaScript, and there isn’t a defacto test suite for that. Googling around has led me to several testing tools, such as Selenium and JSpec. I even began digging deeper into some of them, but then I discovered Jasmine, and that Sencha developers use Jasmine. It was a sign.
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