Talks & seminar papers

Introduction into Greasemonkey, which is a popular Firefox Extension, that allows client side web page manipulation through the writing of so-called User Scripts which consist of JavaScript. I covered some use cases, the API methods it provides and shared some pitfalls/tips. Last but not least I compared it with Bookmarklets and full-blown Firefox Extension.

Hands-On "Hello World" talk, where I showed things in my editor/browser most of the time. Therefore the slides aren't really that informative. If you're interested to jump in, start with this great article & presentation on Robert Nymans site.

Someone who wants to use JavaScript professional, will soon yearn after some quality assurance methods/tools which are used in every other programming language: Code should be documented, tested and validated. After some introduction into these topics three tools are presented in more detail: JsDoc Toolkit (v2), YUI Test (v2) and JSLint.

This presentation gives an introduction into the Mozilla Platform. The presentation covers what it is, what purpose it serves, who uses it, which technologies it consists of (e.g. XUL, XBL, XPCOM ...), which applications you can create with it (e.g. Firefox Extension, XULRunner App, ...) and the advantages / disadvantages it has.

The PDF Slides are accompanied with comments.

In this forty page seminar paper which was written within 2 months I looked at Web 2.0 and the rise of Web APIs. I wrote about web services in general and the protocols and data interchange formats used at this time. I listed some of their advantages and disadvantages, created some examples and finally also wrote about mashups.