Jafar Husain, Senior Developer at Netflix:
The Reactive Extensions library models each event as a collection of data rather than a series of callbacks. This is a revolutionary idea, because once you model an event as a collection you can transform events in much the same way you might transform in-memory collections.
I haven’t watched the interview yet, nor worked through the interactive tutorial, but I’m very intrigued by this idea and want to give it a further, in-depth study.
Kevin Dangoor at blog.mozilla.com — well that looks cool.
This is a good article by Peter Gasston and worth the read. Unfortunately I am 12 and can’t make it through the whole thing without chuckling when I read “flexible box.”
A fantastic set of slides (wish we had the audio…) from Jake Archibald on JavaScript performance.
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