This is just a short post to introduce myself. The talented Mr Selby has kindly invited me on board to blog about my experiences with mad scientist level JavaScript.

My names Davey and I work with Ian at Aptana, my role there is JavaScript Architect and as I result I spend a lot of time rooting around in the arcane depths of spidermonkey. I’m predominately interested in the topic of server side JS as it appears in our Jaxer product but occasionally venture out into the hostile environment that exists on the client.

I have an article primed and ready to go, but just need to put some finishing touches to it before publishing, In it I explore how to reproduce some of the interesting PHP capabilities that Ian is the master of. So it you have ever wanted to have the equivalent of __FILE__ or the __autoload function in javascript, keep watching all will be revealed soon.

As a first tip to any would-be JavaScript ninja, I heartily recommend The Douglas Crockford book ‘JavaScript, the good parts’, it’s just choc full o’ goodness.

cheers