entropia

Douglas Crockford’s Javascript should be required reading for anyone doing javascript programming.  He has a series of articles and videos about various aspect of the javascript language.  Most importantly, he dispenses a lot of the misconceptions that give javascript a bad name.

Most of the people writing in JavaScript are not programmers. They lack the training and discipline to write good programs. JavaScript has so much expressive power that they are able to do useful things in it, anyway. This has given JavaScript a reputation of being strictly for the amateurs, that it is not suitable for professional programming. This is simply not the case.

Even though it’s mostly stuff anyone experienced in javascript probably already knows, it’s good to have it all explained so clearly in one place.  Plus, there’s always the chance that you’ll learn something new you missed in your other learnings.  For me, it was using || for defaults and && for guarding.