Gopal Venkatesan was the first frontend engineer hired by Yahoo! India, and he remains at the core of the f2e community in Yahoo!'s Bangalore office. In this talk, he discusses some useful conventions to employ in creating efficient scripts -- both from the perspective of the language and of the language's interaction with the browser.
Nicholas Zakas is an engineer on the team that brings you My Yahoo!, one of the most popular personalized portals on the web. He is also the author of two books on frontend engineering, including "Professional JavaScript for Web.