8:30 – 4:30 ESSO

• Bronchitis. Urk.
• Backups, and some fixing of databases, as well as acknowledging all the alerts. We really need to turn some scripts off tomorrow.
• Showed Carla how the issue was really bad labeling of what the “1 of 4” items actually were.
• Javascript
• So this is how you define an inheritable class:
• Wow – this overwrites the value in the base parent Object, so that every instance of the superclass or subclass now say “foo”:

  SubType.prototype.saySuperName = function(){
  return "foo";
  };

• This appears to be a good way to do inheritance:

  	//--------- SuperType definition ------------
          function SuperType(name){
              this.name = name;
              this.nickName = "None";
              this.colors = ["red", "blue", "green"];
          }
  
          SuperType.prototype.setNickname = function(nickName){
  			this.nickName = nickName;
  		}
  
          SuperType.prototype.sayName = function(){
              alert("Name = "+this.name+", Nickname = "+this.nickName);
          };
  
  	//--------- SubType definition ------------
          function SubType(name, age){  
              SuperType.call(this, name);
  
              this.age = age;
          }
  
          SubType.prototype = new SuperType();
  
          SubType.prototype.sayAge = function(){
  			if(this.nickName == "None"){
  				alert(this.name+" is "+this.age+" years old");
  			}else{
  				alert(this.nickName+" is "+this.age+" years old");
  			}
          };
  
  	//----------- sequential code --------------------
          var instance1 = new SubType("Nicholas", 29);
  	instance1.setNickname("Nick");
          instance1.colors.push("black");
          alert(instance1.name+"'s colors are: "+instance1.colors);  //"red,blue,green,black"
          instance1.sayName();      //"Nicholas";
          instance1.sayAge();       //29
  
          var instance2 = new SubType("Greg", 27);
          alert(instance2.name+"'s colors are: "+instance2.colors);  //"red,blue,green"
          instance2.sayName();      //"Greg";
          instance2.sayAge();       //27