Web Development Gurus To Follow Round 1: JavaScript
January 29th, 2010 by Web Development Gurus To Follow Round 1: JavaScript
In a multi-part series, I am compiling lists of Web Development Gurus that you must check out and follow through their blogs or on Twitter! In my opinion, it is essential to be in contact with fellows colleagues in your field to really learn the tricks of the trade. Thus, these lists will contact amazing, well informed individuals to follow in the field of Web Development and Web Design, and each list will be sub-categorized by the topic these Gurus are most known for. This post includes Web Development Gurus in the area of JavaScript. As I have mentioned before in this site, JavaScript is the one of the most utilized and popular programming language, because a large majority of the browsers are compatible with it. In addition, JavaScript has become very popular, very quickly, because it is uncomplicated, straightforward, and has a wide-range of capabilities. Check out this list and feel free to add any in the comments section that I may have overlooked! Enjoy!
Aaron Gustafson
Aaron Gustafson is the Founder and Principal Consultant of Easy! Designs, a web development consultancy. He is also Group Manager of the Web Standards Project (WaSP), an Invited Expert to the W3C’s Open Web Education Alliance, a speaker, and an author.
Brendan Eich
Brendan Eich is a computer programmer and original creator of the JavaScript programming language. Currently, he is the Chief Technology Officer at the Mozilla Corporation. He is a very well informed and intelligent guy, and has great information to share.
Chris Heilmann
Christian Heilmann is a “geek and hacker by heart.” He has been a professional web developer for about eleven years and worked his way through several agencies up to Yahoo where he delivered Yahoo Maps Europe and Yahoo Answers. His reputation precedes him, and he is very well know in the field. I would highly recommend following him on Twitter.
Dan Webb
Dan is a web developer and wannabe DJ living in West London, UK with his wife, Catherine. He’s been in the field of web development for about 7 or 8 years now after doing rather disappointingly in his Computer Science Degree due to spending a brief period pursuing a career as an MC. Over the years he’s experienced and been into most web technologies but his main focus seems to have settled on client-side technologies and scripting languages. For this reason, nearly all of what you’ll read about on this site will be either DOM Scripting or Ruby On Rails related.
David Flanagan
David Flanagan is computer programmer who writes mostly about JavaScript and Java. He has written many books including Java in a Nutshell, Java Examples in a Nutshell, Java Foundation Classes in a Nutshell, JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, and JavaScript Pocket Reference. David has a degree in computer science and engineering, lives with his wife and children in the U.S. Pacific Northwest, and has great pearls of wisdom!
Dean Edwards
Dean Edwards is a JavaScript wizard from the UK and creator of the base2, an object-oriented framework for JavaScript, and a JavaScript compressor/obfuscator called /packer/. Very interesting guy to read up on, and he has a great Q and A on his blog, where he gives tons of information about himself and his work. Seems like he has a great personality! Check him out for sure!
Dmitry Baranovskiy
Dmitry Baranovskiy is Sydney based web developer, interested in HTML, CSS, JavaScript, XSLT and SVG. Currently, he is working at Atlassian as a JavaScript Developer. Dmitry is also the creator of the JavaScript framework, Rafael. He is very well known in the JavaScript world, and he is a very interesting guy to follow! Make sure to follow him on Twitter.
Douglas Crockford
Douglas Crockford is a senior JavaScript architect at Yahoo! He is well known for his work in introducing JavaScript Object Notation (JSON). He has also worked on the computerization of media at Atari, Lucasfilm, and Paramount. He is without a doubt a JavaScript Evangelist and is teh one to go to for all your JavaScript questions! Make sure to check out his blog!
Dustin Diaz
Dustin Diaz is a User Interface Engineer at Twitter, author of JavaScript Design Patterns, and a freelance photographer. On his site he writes about JavaScript, presents podcasts, and also has screencasts. He has a great website and blog. Check it out!
Jeremy Keith
Jeremy Keith is a web developer living and working in Brighton, England with the web consultancy firm Clearleft. He likes building accessible, elegant websites using the troika of web standards: XHTML, CSS and the DOM, and he is a member of the Web Standards Project. He also has great ideas, and is worth reading up about!
John Resig
John Resig is a JavaScript Tool Developer for the Mozilla Corporation and the author of the book Pro JavaScript Techniques. He’s also the creator and lead developer of the jQuery JavaScript library. This is one of my idols in the area of JavaScript, and he has great information to offer! Make sure to check him out!
Nicholas Zakas
Nicholas C. Zakas is a web software engineer who specializes in user interface design and implementation for web applications using JavaScript, Dynamic HTML, CSS, XML, and XSLT. He is currently principal front end engineer for the Yahoo! homepage and is a contributor to the Yahoo! User Interface (YUI) library, having written the Cookie Utility, Profiler, and YUI Test. Follow him on Twitter! It is well worth it!
Peter-Paul Koch
Peter-Paul Koch is a mobile platform strategist, consultant, and trainer in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He concentrates on Web technologies, mobile websites, and W3C Widgets. He is very well know in the JavaScript world and is worth following on Twitter! Also, read up on his blog!
Jonathan Snook
Jonathan Snook writes this about himself on his page,” I am the creator of striking designs, impeccable markup and code, and forward-thinking ideas and applications.From front-end work to hardcore server-side challenges, I share tips, tricks and bookmarks on snook.ca, along with other publications online and offline. I’ve also coauthored two acclaimed books: Accelerated DOM Scripting with Ajax, APIs, and Libraries, and the approachable, widely-read The Art and Science of CSS. In my off time, I’ve also teamed up with a dynamic group of world-class partners to form Sidebar Creative, who invent innovative applications, including Snitter, My Mile Marker, and Overheard.it.” Check him out on Twitter!
Simon Willison
Simon Willison is computer and web programmer in the UK, and he is a consultant on OpenID and client- and server-side Web development, and a co-creator of the Django Web framework. Currently is doing freelance, but before that Simon worked on Yahoo!’s Technology Development team and on very early versions of the Fire Eagle geolocation service. He has great information to share, and is worth following on Twitter!
Steve Souders
Steve Sounders works at Google on web performance and open source initiatives. His well acclaimed book, High Performance Web Sites, discusses his best practices for performance and his follow-up book, Even Faster Web Sites, provides performance tips for today’s Web 2.0 applications. Steve is the creator of YSlow, the performance analysis extension to Firebug, with over one million downloads. He is a very well known AJAX Evangelist and has great information to share! Make sure to check him out!
Teylor Feliz is a well-known XHTML/CSS/JavaScript enthusiast from Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic. He has more than 10 years experience in the computer programming and development world, including 2 years teaching computer science. He is currently living in Louisiana, where he plans to complete his degree in Computer Science, and begin a Masters in the field.
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very cool & good post, thank you very much for sharing.
Can I share this post on my JavaScript library?
Awaiting your response. Thank
Just a slight correction: Dustin Diaz is co-author of JavaScript Design Patterns, and got second-billing as an author. Ross Harmes is the main author of that book.
Thanks for the correction
Great list, but where is Aaron Gustafson?
Wow! It is an honor for you to visit our blog; I am actually in the process of reading your book, Designing with Web Standards. I plan to do a book review…it is a great book!
As far as your suggestion of Aaron Gustafson, the ommission was not conscious, but rather an oversight. I just added your him, as I agree that he is a great JavaScript Guru! Thanks for the comment!