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David Flanagan
davidflanagan.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2007
David Flanagan, author of the JavaScript: The Definitive Guide book, writes about JavaScript, Java, and book piracy.
What HN saysHN links it for his posts on book piracy and what changed in new editions of his JavaScript book; one commenter notes the site was once hacked.
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Most-shared posts
- 1David Flanagan (JavaScript Definitive Guide author) on piracy1 people · 58 points · first shared 2011 · 30 comments on HN
- 2Closures in Java 7: Not Likely1 people · 30 points · first shared 2010 · 21 comments on HN
- 3JavaScript: It's a Language, Not a Community1 people · 12 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 4I can ssh to my squeezebox remote1 people · 5 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 5More on Book Piracy1 people · 5 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 6Let it Snow1 people · 4 points · first shared 2010 · discussion on HN
- 7Why I want Classes in JavaScript1 people · 4 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 8CoverMonkey: code coverage for SpiderMonkey1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 9HTML Parsing with JavaScript1 people · 3 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 10IndexedDB Status Report and Demo1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 11Let it Snow [showing the power of the Canvas tag]1 people · 2 points · first shared 2010 · 1 comments on HN
- 12Console.log() for Web Workers1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 13DataView class for Firefox 41 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · discussion on HN
- 14The Definitive Guide, 6th Edition1 people · 2 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 15JavaScript Features to Forget1 people · 2 points · first shared 2020 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
marvel_boy · 2016-03-01
Ironically his blog(http://www.davidflanagan.com) says right now:
"My site was hacked and was hosting malware. So its down until I can rebuild it."
petercooper · 2020-06-18
David has written about what's new, if anyone's interested: https://davidflanagan.com/2020/05/03/changes-in-the-seventh-edition.ht…
I also (briefly) interviewed him about it here: https://superhighway.dev/david-flanagan-interview
asb · 2007-09-30
Straight from the author, what's new in the 5th edition:
http://www.davidflanagan.com/blog/2006_08.html#000110