Hi everyone, Thanks to Rey and Asen for getting this group together. I've been hard- pressed to find a group of JavaScript developers in one place that actually know more than basic JavaScript.
My name is Jonathan "Jona" Fenocchi, 21 years of age. I'm a "still working on it" computer science major although I haven't been taking consistent semesters due to work overload. I'm currently employed at the University of Houston in my hometown, where I work as a web developer, designing & developing applications for internal and external clients. Previously, I worked at my father's company for one year, where I assisted in the development of mathematical equations and statistical research to quantify trends and probabilities for stock market direction; I also converted these algorithms into computerized systems using different proprietary programming languages (unique to their trading platforms). And before that, I worked for one year at a junior college as a web specialist. I've done freelance web design/development for around 7 years, in addition to my other jobs. I also spent a year at Starbucks, making coffee, because coffee is damn good. My sorely neglected personal site and nigh ancient portfolio can be found at www.slightlyremarkable.com. (Don't judge to harshly, please. I'll be churning out something current-era soon. 8^) I've had some work featured in a book, Greasemonkey Hacks, by Mark Pilgrim, for writing a Greasemonkey script that converts ASCII characters on your typical web form. I'd written some articles on web development / javascript for Webdeveloper.com several years ago, though they're mostly old concepts in today's world. Douglas Crockford is my hero. I've been keenly interested in diving into node.js, but my current employer seems to have a mighty aversion to software upgrades, much less new tech, so I've had to fiddle with it on my own time. I'm also completely stoked about canvas/svg and the possibilities that lie within; Dmitry Baranovsky's RaphaëlJS lib is pretty sleek work. I look forward to contributing, for my part and to the best of my ability, to the discussions and debates that take place in this group. I look forward to absorbing everything I can learn, and helping others whenever and wherever I can. I'm excited to be here and get involved!! Thanks, Jona On Dec 13, 7:13 pm, inimino <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi all, > > Now that the mailing list is working reliably, I thought I might start > an introductions thread. Please reply if you want to introduce yourself > to the list and say something about your interest in JavaScript. > > I'm using JavaScript in the browser, and on the server with node.js, > which I really enjoy. > > I have a blog: > > http://inimino.org/~inimino/blog > > where I rarely post, but usually about something JavaScript-related. > > The most interesting JavaScript project I'm involved in at the moment is > probably a parser generator called PanPG, which has been a lot of fun: > > http://boshi.inimino.org/3box/PanPG/about.html > > PanPG includes a JavaScript parser and I have a couple tools that are > almost usable for doing interesting things with JavaScript source code. > > I also am working on a toy Scheme implementation in JavaScript as part > of my progress through the classic book SICP: > > http://boshi.inimino.org/3box/inimino/projects/SICP/chap_5/Ex51/src/t... > > Scheme and JavaScript are very closely related languages, with some > notable differences (tail call optimization, call/cc, macros) so it's > been quite interesting to implement one in the other; of course I've > learned a lot about Scheme by implementing it, but also a few things > about JavaScript. > > -inimino -- To view archived discussions from the original JSMentors Mailman list: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To search via a non-Google archive, visit here: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]
