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"Javascript hides a lot of arsenal beneath its simplicity. In this post I've tried to explain normal javascript arrays and associative arrays starting with absolute basics and then presenting the advance concepts that are often overlooked but are simple to understand and are very handy. I'm not a Javascript guru :) . This post is more about what I've discovered overtime while coding in Javascript. Hope it helps and saves your time."

"A question was asked on Stack Overflow recently, and I provided an answer that I think is worth re-blogging here (while cleaning up the text / grammar). My answer goes in to a little bit of the idea behind a garbage collected language and gets in to some of the basics of how JavaScript knows when to clean up your "garbage" - that is, your objects that are no longer used. What I'm presenting here is an oversimplification of how JavaScript manages memory. However, these basic ideas should prove useful to people who want to do a better job of managing memory usage in JavaScript."

"Ender is a full featured package manager for your browser. It allows you to search, install, manage, and compile front-end javascript packages and their dependencies for the web. We like to think of it as NPM's little sister. Ender is not a JavaScript library. It's not a jQuery replacement. It's not even a static asset. It's a tool for making the consumption of front-end javascript packages dead simple and incredibly powerful."

"The fastest bug fixes are the ones you can make and test right on the spot. However, many times access to the web server in order to update JavaScript files is not possible, convenient, or is potentially dangerous (affects all users if your fix fails miserably). "

"If you recall, JavaScript closures are an extremely powerful concept in the language. By using JavaScript's rather peculiar scoping rules, closures are a way of creating private variables and functionality for an object. The module pattern builds upon this feature."

"This is the first in a 5 part series presenting the SOLID design principles within the context of the JavaScript language."

"This includes Notifier.js - a Javascript library for Gnome / Growl type non-blocking notifications. "

"The current product I am building makes heavy use of HTML5 & javascript to give the user a rich experience, both on and offline, across a variety of screens. Before I even started this application I knew I wanted a clean and proven approach to help manage the complexity on the client. After reviewing several js frameworks I decided to go with backbone.js (compare yourself). I have been working with backbone for several months and I am really happy with it, and would recommend to anyone building similar types of javascript applications."

"AccDC is a powerful dynamic content management framework that accelerates dynamic behaviors for Rich Internet Applications, which can be integrated with any architecture or platform that supports JavaScript. AccDC can be used as a standalone API, or in conjunction with jQuery, YUI, Ext JS, Prototype, Glow, Dojo, GWT, MooTools, Processing, Raphael, X, Tridion, or any other JavaScript library or framework without conflict. The focus of AccDC is minimalism, so that all features are designed to be as condensed, powerful, and fast as possible. "

" Yurii Rashkovskii presents Beam.js, a JavaScript platform built on erlv8 and providing bi-directional integration with Erlang. "

"InfoQ had a Q&A with the creators of some of the leading JavaScript unit testing frameworks about their projects and what they offer to developers."

"JSHint is great. It's a linting tool for JavaScript: a simple tool that can very often spot your mistakes before you do. It can save you from a lot of tedious debugging, lets you refactor JavaScript code with greater confidence, and reduces the chances of you deploying broken code to your production server."

"EJS cleans the HTML out of your JavaScript with client side templates. After EJS gets its rubber gloves on dirty code, you'll feel organized and uncluttered."

"Essential JavaScript Design Patterns For Beginners"

"I've quickly become a fan of jQuery's Deferred / Promise features. They've been around for a little bit now, but I only recent started using them and they've helped me solve a number of problems with my asynchronous JavaScript code. But what I recently figured out really blew my mind. You can use jQuery to support both synchronous and asynchronous code, with the `$.when` function, and your code doesn't have to care whether or not it's async."

" Since jQuery was released in 2006, it has changed the way we think of JavaScript. And because of its simplicity, it has motivated many enthusiastic developers to create thousands of useful plugins and extends its functionality. Now, lets go through some of the most popular jQuery plugins of 2011 as It's almost over. "

"Assuming that it'll be a while before most browsers attempt to implement most of HTML 5 (a perfectly reasonable assumption) we need to start thinking of ways to tackle the creation and rendering of HTML 5 components in the meantime. Obviously, using the tools of JavaScript and CSS we can accomplish a lot."

"jqPlot is a plotting and charting plugin for the jQuery Javascript framework. jqPlot produces beautiful line, bar and pie charts with many features:"

"As JavaScript applications become larger and larger, we have to think about the download size, memory usage and other performance constraints for our end users. There are a number of aspects to consider, one of which is how to deliver the HTML templates that your application is using, to the user's browser, so that your application can render the templates."

"Async is a utility module which provides straight-forward, powerful functions for working with asynchronous JavaScript. Although originally designed for use with node.js, it can also be used directly in the browser. Async provides around 20 functions that include the usual 'functional' suspects (map, reduce, filter, forEach…) as well as some common patterns for asynchronous control flow (parallel, series, waterfall…). All these functions assume you follow the node.js convention of providing a single callback as the last argument of your async function."