Misc. topics

This page contains some misc. topics/diagrams that I find useful.

Java

  1. Java IO
    Diagrams the relationship between IO, NIO, Strings, Buffers and encodings
  2. Java type conversion
    On overview of some basic parseXXX, valueOf and toString methods in Java

Javascript

  1. Javascript Object Layout
    Ever wonder what prototypes, objects, functions are and how they are related to each other ? Wonder no more!
  2. Javascript type wrangling
    A primer on runtime type conversions in JS.
  3. Javascript scope and prototype chains
    Scope and prototype chains are different things. The scope chain finds a variable and the prototype chain finds a property inside a variable (of type object).
  4. Javascript closures
    What is this "closure" thing anyway ?
  5. Javascript this pointer
    A comparison between the this pointer in Javascript and Java.
  6. Random Javascript code snippets
    Misc. code snippets in no particular order

Flash & Actionscript

  1. An introduction to Actionscript code execution order