Thanks, this question came about after fooling around with Facebook's API. I 
did get what I needed accomplished but struggled with the async concept. I made 
a API call with my own callback but it didn't work that way. Probably because 
I'm a js noob still finding my way around. Thanks for the advice and I will 
follow up on that. 

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On May 9, 2011, at 12:30 PM, Scott Sauyet <[email protected]> wrote:

> Shawn Stringfield wrote:
>> Anyone know of any great resources for learning asynchronous js?
> 
> Practice.
> 
> Seriously, there are no particular difficulties in the ideas of
> asynchronous programming.  If you've ever done any event-based
> programming, even just `onClick=...`, then you've already made the
> conceptual leap.  Now it's just a matter of practicing.
> 
> Write some code.  Take some synchronous API and start to imagine how
> you'd have to change it if you wanted to allow certain parts to be
> asynchronous.  Watch how this then spreads through various layers of
> the API.  Write more code.  See what breaks.  Look at the various
> Promises APIs. [1]  Investigate Dojo's Deferred or the jQuery
> implementation.  Write more code.
> 
> That's all it takes (except that you'll probably want to write a bit
> more code!).
> 
>  -- Scott
> 
> [1] http://wiki.commonjs.org/wiki/Promises
> 
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