First in a series of talks from Douglas Crockford about the JavaScript language. These talks cover the JavaScript language, from the history, the language, advanced features, platforms, standards and programming style. Talks about inheritance, using functions to build objects, closures, as well as the basic JavaScript syntax. Also covers code conventions. JavaScript is a language that requires discipline.
Matt Kruse's JavaScript Toolbox presents a number of excellent best practice ideas including: using var, feature detection, when to use square bracket notation, avoiding eval, referencing forms and form elements, avoiding the with keyword, using onclick instead of JavaScript pseudo-protocol, using unary + to type convert to numbers, avoiding document.all, not using HTML comments in script blocks, avoid cluttering the global namespace, avoiding prototype.js, avoiding synch Ajax calls, using JSON and the correct way to use script tags