Rick Waldron

Rick Waldron is a jQuery Core committer and board member of the jQuery Foundation. In his role as board member, he serves as jQuery’s representative in ECMA TC39, channeling the project’s vast real world experience into contributions to the design the next version of JavaScript.

Rick is the creator of Johnny-Five, a JavaScript framework for Arduino programming on the Node.js platform and is working towards establishing these hardware APIs as a standard. He also created Idiomatic.js, a baseline JavaScript style guide that has been translated to 12 languages. In early 2012, alongside Adam Sontag, he co-engineered the entire Ringmark/Rng.io mobile browser capability test system. Since December 2010, Rick has been a core committer of Mozilla’s Popcorn.js project and has made trivial contributions to several Mozilla projects, including Rust, Gaia and Joystick support. All of Rick’s personal work is open sourced under the MIT license and freely available at Github.

Check out Rick Waldron's github and twitter.

Posts from Rick Waldron on Bocoup's blog:

JavaScript: Object.observe →

Posted on Aug 24, 2012

JavaScript: Arduino Bumper Switch Controlling a Led Tutorial →

Posted on Jul 17, 2012

JavaScript: Arduino Slide Controlling a Servo Tutorial →

Posted on May 24, 2012

JavaScript: Arduino Servo Control Tutorial →

Posted on May 18, 2012

JavaScript: Arduino Programming on Node.js →

Posted on May 15, 2012

Ringmark Gallery, Part 1 →

Posted on Mar 06, 2012

JavaScript: WebRTC in Opera Mobile 12 →

Posted on Feb 28, 2012

HTML5 Video: Synchronizing Playback of Two Videos →

Posted on Sep 02, 2011

JavaScript: Firefox Nightly introduces DOM Joystick Events →

Posted on Aug 08, 2011

JavaScript: EventSource is Long Polling →

Posted on Jun 01, 2011

JavaScript: Firefox/Aurora 6 and EventSource API →

Posted on May 30, 2011

JavaScript: jQuery Bug Fixing Guide →

Posted on Nov 23, 2010

JavaScript: indexedDB in Chromium 8.0.552.5 dev! →

Posted on Oct 19, 2010

JavaScript: EventSource Support Updated in Opera 10.70 →

Posted on Oct 19, 2010

JavaScript: Promote JS →

Posted on Sep 26, 2010

JavaScript: jQuery RegEx Review →

Posted on Sep 22, 2010

JavaScript Web Workers: Support & Testing The Browser →

Posted on Sep 16, 2010

jQuery: Fastest Way To Select Nothing →

Posted on Aug 29, 2010

JavaScript IS Object Oriented Programming →

Posted on Aug 27, 2010

JavaScript: Creating an EventSource within a Worker →

Posted on Aug 26, 2010

JavaScript: YakYakFace.com uses jQuery.EventSource →

Posted on Aug 25, 2010

10K Event Apart Submission: Pictocalypse 10k →

Posted on Aug 24, 2010

Javascript Typed Arrays: Method Support →

Posted on Jul 15, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: Chrome 5+ supports new SharedWorker() →

Posted on Jun 21, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: Opera 10.6 Beta Supports SharedWorkers →

Posted on Jun 18, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: Opera 10.60 Beta Supports Complex Messages →

Posted on Jun 17, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: Safari 5 Now Supports Complex Messages →

Posted on Jun 07, 2010

JavaScript EventSource: Now available in Firefox! →

Posted on Jun 07, 2010

JavaScript Web Workers: Motörmouth is a Twitter Client →

Posted on Jun 07, 2010

Chrome 6: Server Push Events with new EventSource() →

Posted on May 26, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: Chrome 5 Now Supports Complex Messages →

Posted on May 26, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: From Basics to jQuery.Hive, Part III →

Posted on May 18, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: From Basics to jQuery.Hive, Part II (Browser Implementations) →

Posted on May 18, 2010

Javascript Web Workers: From Basics to jQuery.Hive →

Posted on May 17, 2010

PollenJS Contributor Announcement →

Posted on Jan 25, 2010

PollenJS: Javascript Web Workers Library →

Posted on Sep 14, 2009

Expanding Capabilities of Javascript Web Workers →

Posted on Jul 26, 2009

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