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24th August 2007 - Link Blog

Building a JavaScript Library. Slides from John Resig’s Google Tech Talk. Some great tips in here, including: make your APIs orthogonal, look for common patterns, keep things extensible and write the documentation yourself.

Posted 24th August 2007 at 4:02 pm

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