## Day 1
- Meet, greet, goals, and setup (0:30)
 - Firebug orientation
- JavaScript Basics (1:00)
 - Loose typing: Numbers, strings, booleans
 - Conditionals
 - Iteration
 - Objects, prototypes, inheritance, and "this"
 - Scope and closures
- Exercise: JavaScript 101 (0:30)
- Performance Best Practices (1:00)
 - General front-end performance
 - Selector optimization
 - Event delegation
 - Detaching elements
 - Limiting DOM manipulation
 - Avoiding acting on absent elements
- Exercise: Improving existing code (0:30)
- Code Organization (1:15)
 - Loose coupling
 - Object literals
 - Module pattern
 - Simple inheritance
- Exercise: Create a portlet module (0:45)

## Day 2
- New in jQuery 1.4(.2) (0:30)
 - Functions for setters with default arguments
 - $.fn.delegate() vs $.fn.live()
- Advanced Events (2:00)
 - The event object
 - Sending data with events
 - Scope manipulation
 - Namespacing events
 - Custom events & pubsub
- Advanced Ajax (0:30)
 - JSONP
 - Scope manipulation
- Wrapup Exercise: Create a multi-service search interface with YQL (2:30)