These are my links for August 25th through September 1st: The Basic Laws of Human Stupidity First essay of the late Prof Carlo Cipolla.<br /> Law1: Everyone underestimates the stupid population. <br /> Law2: Stupidity is independent of other characteristics.<br /> Law3: A stupid person causes loss to others while deriving no gain or incurring [...]

These are my links for August 19th from 11:30 to 22:00: When does JavaScript trigger reflows and rendering? – 'Reflowing and rendering HTML is the single most expensive operation browsers do'

These are my links for August 12th from 16:12 to 16:23: Douglas Crockford – Really, JavaScript? – A very accessible Doug Crockford presentation on JS. It's his usual content, but good for a fairly novice audience. Ryan Dahl – Less is More with Node.js –

These are my links for August 12th from 15:01 to 15:30: JS Strawman – blip.tv (since 2005) – Brendan Eich at JSConf 2010 – what’s coming in ECMAScript 5 and more ✩ Mozilla Hacks – the Web developer blog –

These are my links for August 12th from 13:06 to 13:16: Adequately Good – JavaScript Module Pattern: In-Depth – Online javascript beautifier –

These are my links for August 7th through August 12th: YUI Compressor – Code Standards | Isobar – Adequately Good – Saner HTML5 History Management – AJAX and restful apps break the browser history model. Some thoughts on how the HTML5 changes could help.

These are my links for August 6th from 05:40 to 05:45: Full Frontal – JavaScript Conference – 12th November 2010 – I recommend this. The 2009 show was very good indeed. Shifting Mind » Postalicious – Alternative to delicious auto-log-posting. Control the conent. No XMLRPC necessary.

I just watched a nice presentation by Yahoo evangelist Christian Heilmann who opened the show at FF09 yesterday. Whilst there’s a lot of good ideas throughout regarding the maintainability of JavaScript code, one nugget stood out about code tutorials. Christian Suggests a four pronged presentation strategy when writing tutorials for designers – it is equally [...]

“A conference on ECMA-262” doesn’t sound particularly exciting, so I can understand the organisers of Full Frontal 2009 wanting to pick a name that was perhaps more attention grabbing. I’m heading along there tomorrow, and depending on the format (& facilities at my disposal) I’ll hopefully be able to blog and tweet throughout.