I have been creating web pages using plain HTML and some CSS for a long time now, but the whole DHTML and AJAX craze remind somewhat of a closed book to me. This all changed when I set my mind to integrating a PicasaWeb Album into my Homepage and could not find any code out there that did what I had in mind.
JavaScript has a bad reputation for being highly browser specific.
This has changed in recent years, both by the browsers becoming more uniform in their JavaScript support as well as the advent of some nifty JavaScript libraries abstracting away a lot of the differences.
In this talk I will give you a short introduction to JavaScript programming and go into some details on how to make it even simpler by using the jQuery library.
Tobias Oetiker is an electrical engineer by education and a system administrator by vocation. For ten years he has been working for the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, providing
students and staff with a deluxe Unix workstation environment. In 2006 he started his own company OETIKER+PARTNER AG, running Unix servers for industry customers, improving his pet open source projects MRTG, RRDtool, and SmokePing, and applying these tools to solve the customers' problems.
Find out more about the Tobi on http://tobi.oetiker.ch