Ryan Frishberg

Ryan has been involved with client-side scripting since 1999 when he started high school. He recently graduated from Carnegie Mellon University in May 2007, where he was a teaching assistant for 4 semesters and co-taught a stuco course on Web 2.0 and Building Rich Internet Applications. He is currently working at Adobe on the Flex SDK team.

Ryan Frishberg

The PHP 4 Bible - the ultimate reference, or the ultimate dud? Ryan's review reveals the truth about this IDG Worldwide publication from the point of view of an experienced PHP programmer.Read More
In the second instalment of his two-part tutorial, Ryan explores Arguments, the Prototype property and Constructors. Improve your skills in JavaScript OOP with this complete introduction.Read More
Object Categories There are three object categories in JavaScript: Native Objects, Host Objects, and User-Defined Objects. Native objects are those objects supplied by JavaScript. Examples of these... Read More
 
Keeping Things Tidy Let’s say we want to keep all our properties and methods in the same place – in the Circle() constructor function. There are many ways to do this. Let’s first... Read More
An Object An object is a collection of properties. These properties can either be primitive data types, other objects, or functions (which in this case are called methods, but more on this later). A... Read More
In this first of a two-part introduction to OOP in JavaScript, Ryan outlines the basics, from the Primitive data types to Object Categories. It's a comprehensive path through your first steps in... Read More

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