World Front End Stars 2. JS Lovers

    This article is a continuation of the previous and second of the general series of biographies. This time I reviewed a few surnames that are better known among JS lovers.




    John Resig



    Personal website: ejohn.org
    In his 27 years, John has already managed to leave a mark on the history of the web. First of all, he is known as the creator of jQuery - the most popular js-library in the world (the latest rating according to W3Tech ). Love for JS can be traced in his entire biography. For four years he worked at Mozilla Corporation, first as a JavaScript evangelist, and later as a JavaScript Tool Developer. Exactly a year ago, he left Mozilla to join the Khan Academy , where he became the leader of their Open Source activities and JS-development. In addition to the main work, Resig took part in the development of a large set of useful pieces, among which FUEL(project for Firefox Plugin development), Processing.js (language for creating visual effects), Sizzle (engine for CSS selectors), as well as EnvJS and TestSwarm . He also wrote two books on JS - Secrets of the JavaScript Ninja (2011) and Pro JavaScript Techniques (2006). And yes, John is a fan of playing Starcraft 2 (id: frowny.396, Silver Protoss)

    Nicolas C. Zakas



    Personal website: www.nczonline.net
    Nicholas began his career as a webmaster in a small software company, then began to engage in UI design and prototyping, until in 2006 he moved to Silicon Valley and joined Yahoo! .. At Yahoo! He worked for five years, where he became the front-end techlide of the main page of yahoo.com , took a direct part in the development of Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library , and also created Cookie Utility , Profiler and YUI Test. At the moment, he is the owner of Nicholas C. Zakas Consulting - conducts lectures, trainings, reports and the like. Like other web developers of this level, Zakas is trying to bring knowledge to the world in all available ways. In particular, he is the author of books such as Professional JavaScript for Web Developers and High Performance JavaScript , co-author of Professional Ajax , in addition, he writes articles on various resources - from Sitepoint to A List Apart . His most interesting articles are neatly stored in a special section of his site . As for public speaking - here, too, everything is OK- His name is as a speaker in a variety of companies - from LinkedIn , Google and Netflix to NASA .

    Nate Koechley



    Personal website: nate.koechley.com
    Nate is one of the first web developers at Yahoo !, working there since 2001. If you look at his profile on LinkedIn , you can see all his growth as a high-class professional in his field. It is interesting to observe the change of his positions in Yahoo! - Web Developer, Manager Web Development, Design Group, Senior Web Developer, Platform Design Team, User Experience and Design Group at Yahoo !, Senior Frontend Engineer, YUI Team, and, finally, his current position is Director, Design Architecture & Prototyping at Yahoo! .. With regard to its current activities, it affects the development of open-source Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) Library . Well, when Nate doesn't work on YUI, he writes on YUIBlog anda personal blog promoting web standards and speaking worldwide - from lectures at National Taiwan University to trainings on Microsoft (MIX) and Adobe (MAX) . In parallel, he remains an independent consultant. In particular, he was invited as a consultant to New York Times Digital, Netflix, PayPal, eBay, TiVo, Walmart, Oracle, Adobe, and Microsoft. Well, and where without books - Nate took part in writing “ High Performance Web Sites ” (O'Reilly, 2008), “ Modular Web Design ” (2009) and “ Developing Large Web Applications ” (O'Reilly, 2010). And the last interesting nuance - in 2009, he received his first patent, which is associated with a new method of scaling text on web pages.

    Remy Sharp



    Personal website: remysharp.com
    I first learned about Remy Sharp when I discovered jQuery for Designers . In the About section, I met his phrase: “The reason I use jQuery is my laziness. Its code is easy to write and easy to read. This library kills many tedious aspects of programming and allows you to do funny things. " It was about the same as I felt at that time, so I immediately liked this guy :)
    After that, the name Remy began to meet me more and more. In 2009, he became the organizer of Full Frontal , a UK JavaScript conference held annually. Introducing HTML5 Released In 2010, в где он выступил соавтором Брюса Лоусона (Bruce Lawson). Кроме этого, он является одним из авторов и редакторов ресурса HTML5Doctor, разработчиком JS Bin, HTML5 Demos и Snap Bird (JS-утилита для поиска по твиттеру), является членом команды jQuery. И да, он веб-евангелист, любящий JavaScript :)
    Если коснуться места его работы, то можно отметить, что он не был замечен в качестве сотрудника какой-нибудь крупной компании, а скорее наоборот — с 2006го года он руководит собственной компанией Left Logic, которая занимается веб-разработкой и тренингами.


    Джереми Кейт (Jeremy Keith)



    Personal website: adactio.com
    The name of this Irishman is most likely familiar to you through his books. Jeremy has three so far:
    HTML5 for Web Designers , DOM Scripting and Bulletproof Ajax . He currently works for Clearleft , an English company , and is an administrator at microformats.org . In addition, over the past three years, Jeffrey has been developing his brainchild - the huffduffer.com project - a service that facilitates the work with podcasts. Information about his public activities on the Internet is not so much as that of other comrades represented here, however, if desired, everyone can get acquainted with his works and interviews on his channel in Vimeo .


    Alex Russell



    Personal website: infrequently.org
    If you were dealing with the Dojo library , you are most likely familiar with Alex Russell, who was one of its creators in 2004. He currently works at Google, where he works as a software engineer on Chrome Frame and an open web platform. He also helped Google standardize ECMAScript.
    Before Google, he served as Director of R&D at SitePen startup , and also made rich user interfaces for JotSpot and Informatica , where he began helping develop Dojo.. In addition, Alex is an excellent speaker, as you can see by watching his video from Google I / O: HTML5 & What's Next , Learning to Love JavaScript and HTML5 Today with Google Chrome Frame .


    The next representative from the world of the frontend will be a little out of the range of those whom I indicated above. I just undeservedly forgot to enter it in the first six. Therefore, I hope that no one will mind if he hangs in this :)

    Douglas Crockford (Douglas Crockford)



    Personal website: crockford.com
    It’s hard in a few sentences to give complete information about this Chuck Norris in the JS world . Douglas works at Yahoo!, where he is the chief architect for JavaScript and leads the development of related JS, in particular - YUI. In addition, he is the creator and popularizer of the JSON format, as well as such useful pieces as JSlint and JSmin . A whole bunch of articles, reports, videos and other content related to JS can be found on the corresponding section of his site. Plus, he is the author of the popular JavaScript book : The Good Parts. But this is the information that most likely, many already know. However, probably not everyone knows that Crockford once worked on the computerization of Atari , Lucasfilm , and Paramount . When Lucasfilm Games worked on Maniac Mansion, his first NES game, Douglas volunteered to do it himself. This story has a whole section on the page on Wikipedia. Crockford himself has a story dedicated to this episode in his biography.


    PS: Yes, I remember Jeffrey Way, Chikuenka with Makeev and Baranovsky, and even TJ Holowaychuk with Molly “mollydotcom” Holzschlag. Well, about many others, it’s just impossible to immediately describe everything, but also remember it. But for them I prepared separate thematic divisions, so everything has its own time.

    UPD: Found an article relevant to this - 30 Developers you MUST Subscribe to as a JavaScript Junkie

    UPD2: Surprisingly, Douglas Crockford materialized in this article, and PPK moved to the previous article

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