Some JavaScript Pointers...

[SlightlyLoony]

Continuing yesterday's theme — several folks have asked me where they can go to learn more about JavaScript, which the Service-now product uses extensively, both on the instance and on the web browser client. Almost anything you might like to customize in Discovery requires knowledge of JavaScript: business rules, sensors, CI consolidation, etc. all make use of it. It's a key bit of knowledge to have under your belt if you want to be able to tweak and extend Service-now's products (including Discovery) to meet your organization's special needs. You could hire the JavaScript Genius at right (I understand he's available immediately). Or you could tackle this new challenge yourself, by doing some reading, online and on paper.

Here are some of my favorite sources of JavaScript information:

• JavaScript: the Definitive Guide (book): In my not-so-humble opinion, this is the best overall reference to Javascript available. Written by David Flanagan, published by O'Reilly (Amazon page). This book is authoritative and unusually readable for such a reference. No other JavaScript book I own even comes close.
• W3 Schools JavaScript Reference (web site): This site has a reasonably complete JavaScript reference that is quite concise. It's great for a quick lookup of some obscure point of the language you don't use often. My only complaint is that in its conciseness it leaves out some useful details.
• Web Reference's Core JavaScript Reference (web site): This site is a more complete JavaScript reference and includes an index. It's not quite as easy to navigate as the preceding site.
• Wikipedia JavaScript page (web site): As it often is, the Wikipedia page is a good introduction and a linkapalooza — it has dozens of good links off to other JavaScript reference material, along with some interesting JavaScript history.
• Mozilla's JavaScript Reference (web site): This site is the most complete of all, albeit specifically for the flavor of JavaScript found in the FireFox web browser and other Mozilla products. I find it useful both for researching FireFox-specific information and for JavaScript in general, as the site does a good job of pointing out the non-standard Mozilla behaviors.

Enjoy! And let me know if you end up hiring the genius...