I have to confess that I’m novice in JavaScript development. I used to developp in C# (I spent several years with a friend to developp the computation part of Topobase Survey), in C (for a 3D Raster visualization package) or in Java (Ilix).
I heard “JavaScript is object oriented”, so I thought “Fine, it will be a piece of cake to write some JavaScript code”… As I had vacation and tons of ideas, I started to copy-paste some code. Quite easy at the the beginning, but when I wanted to organize my code and use complex code, I had to admit that I didn’t understood everything what I copied…
The light came when I read the fantastic text: JavaScript for Object-Oriented Programmers… and at the end of the lecture, I remembered what Eric said to me “Why do you say that JavaScript is unclear when you don’t know it ?” (cf. The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language) …
It’s now the good time to read the Ext Manual.
Archive for December, 2008
JavaScript for Object-Oriented Programmers
Monday, December 29th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletJavaScript for Object-Oriented Programmers
Monday, December 29th, 2008 by Cédric Moullet
I have to confess that I’m novice in JavaScript development. I used to developp in C# (I spent several years with a friend to developp the computation part of Topobase Survey), in C (for a 3D Raster visualization package) or in Java (Ilix).
I heard “JavaScript is object oriented”, so I thought “Fine, it will be a piece of cake to write some JavaScript code”… As I had vacation and tons of ideas, I started to copy-paste some code. Quite easy at the the beginning, but when I wanted to organize my code and use complex code, I had to admit that I didn’t understood everything what I copied…
The light came when I read the fantastic text: JavaScript for Object-Oriented Programmers… and at the end of the lecture, I remembered what Eric said to me “Why do you say that JavaScript is unclear when you don’t know it ?” (cf. The World’s Most Misunderstood Programming Language) …
It’s now the good time to read the Ext Manual.
Introduction to OpenLayers in Linux.com
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletHave a look at this interesting article: http://www.linux.com/feature/154814?
Introduction to OpenLayers in Linux.com
Saturday, December 27th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletHave a look at this interesting article: http://www.linux.com/feature/154814?
Promising styler
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletThe GeoServer team has built a very promising SLD styler: http://blog.geoserver.org/2008/12/23/geoext-based-sld-editor/. I’d love to see it in GeoExt.
GeoExt: Where to start ?
Wednesday, December 24th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletOpenLayers and ExtJS are both Javascript libraries, so, for the beginner, it’s quite a good idea to learn this language first. I can recommend the w3 school JavaScript tutorial.
Then, you can find some Ext tutorial here and, of course the fantastic Ext samples.
OpenLayers has also very good samples, user recipes and a small tutorial.
For developers, you can the accces the API doc here: ExtJS API and OpenLayers API.
GeoExt Blog
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletMapFish’s blog is very proud to announce the birth of his brother GeoExt. All the family is very happy and wishes a long life to this new great project !
GeoExt Blog
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletMapFish’s blog is very proud to announce the birth of his brother GeoExt. All the family is very happy and wishes a long life to this new great project !
GeoExt: go,go,go !
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008 by Cédric MoulletI think, it is the start of a great adventure ! The idea of combining ExtJS and OpenLayers is not really new, but the new thing is the readiness of a large community to build this library together. MapFish, OpenGeo, Osgis and others have already developped bricks that will be part of this JavaScript library. A temporary PSC is now working. And the interest is quite high: http://www.geoext.org/trac/geoext/wiki/CallParticipation.
Do you think that we can’t do it ? YES, WE CAN !
Tutorial MapFish
Monday, December 15th, 2008 by Cédric Moulletsur GeoTribu. Merci Arnaud 