{"id":910,"date":"2010-07-07T10:03:56","date_gmt":"2010-07-07T14:03:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/htmlcssjs.wpengine.com\/?p=910"},"modified":"2014-10-08T16:39:04","modified_gmt":"2014-10-08T20:39:04","slug":"book-review-high-performance-javascript","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/javascript\/book-review-high-performance-javascript\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: High Performance JavaScript"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><object width=\"576\" height=\"324\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/d.yimg.com\/m\/up\/ypp\/default\/player.swf\"><\/param><param name=\"flashVars\" value=\"vid=19241148&#038;\"><\/param><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"><\/param><\/object><\/div>\n<p>I read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/059680279X?ie=UTF8&#038;tag=drunkenfistcom&#038;linkCode=as2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=390957&#038;creativeASIN=059680279X\">High Performance JavaScript<\/a> when it came out. It took me a while to write this review. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been busy (day job x spending a lot of time outside because it&#8217;s summer = less time for writing)<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, it&#8217;s really good. It&#8217;s short, but well-written and focused so it&#8217;s an easy book to dive into, digest and integrate into your day-to-day. <\/p>\n<p>One of the things I liked about it is that the topics cover enough ground that even as an experienced\/expert developer you can learn some things that you&#8217;ve probably never run into in a production environment. Maybe you haven&#8217;t dealt with a lot of heavy-duty string manipulation and regular expressions or possibly you haven&#8217;t done a ton with build systems. They&#8217;re covered here, by experts. You might not be an expert after reading it, but you&#8217;ll definitely have enough to go on to start working in some solid enhancements into your own code.  <\/p>\n<p>All in all, this is a recommended book for all intermediate to expert JavaScript developers. It will get you thinking about your own code, about convenience and about JavaScript performance in a very fundamental way. That&#8217;s good for you, for your users and for the web as a whole.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read High Performance JavaScript when it came out. It took me a while to write this review. I&#8217;ve been busy (day job x spending a lot of time outside because it&#8217;s summer = less time for writing) Anyway, it&#8217;s really good. It&#8217;s short, but well-written and focused so it&#8217;s an easy book to dive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[46,39,28],"class_list":["post-910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-javascript","tag-books","tag-tips","tag-tricks"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3uLY6-eG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/910\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/htmlcssjavascript.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}