The following slides were part of a talk about features and implementation of object-oriented JavaScript. The talk was given at Dynamic Languages World, the first European conference dealing with the shared concepts and frameworks of all important dynamic languages (including Ruby, Groovy, PHP, Python and, of course, JavaScript).

The talk attracted quite a number of people. Interestingly, while most of the audience was familiar with JavaScript, some important concepts like closures still seem not to part of the everyday programming arsenal. The native capabilities of JavaScript as a programming language are really fascinating, and frameworks like qooxdoo try to make them as powerful yet comprehensible and practical as possible. Especially if you are new to qooxdoo or object-oriented JavaScript, make sure to read about and also try out qooxdoo's OO syntax and features:

• OO feature summary
• OO documentation
• API Reference

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In one of the last sessions of the Dynamic Languages World I did a talk about JavaScript tooling. My objective was to give a general overview over some current JavaScript tools.

I covered JavaScript linker, tools to generate API documentation, lint tools and JavaScript packer.

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You can download the demo application used in the presentation. I have included a stripped down qooxdoo version so you can just download and run it.

Googling for the term qooxdoo revealed some interesting qooxdoo tutorials and HOWTOS. They have been added to the qooxdoo tutorials section in our wiki.

• Using qooxdoo on Rails. (English, qooxdoo 0.6.1) Tutorial by Ganesh Gunasegaran showing how to set a simple Ruby on Rails project with a qooxdoo frontend.
• qooxdoo on Rails (Russian, qooxdoo 0.6.1-RC1) Another qoodoo Tutorial for Ruby on Rails and qooxdoo.
• Two Chinese qooxdoo Tutorials:
  • qooxdoo's events handle and dispatch
  • qooxdoo's namespace and inheritance

It would be great if some Russian or Chinese speaking qooxdoo users could translate them to English. We would be happy to host translations in our wiki.