Great video from the Jedi master Douglas Crockford

• Video
• Slides

<script type="text/ruby">
class Design
  def approach &block
	block.yield "simple"
  end
end
class Programming
  NAME = ' - Albert Einstein'
  def main
    Design.new.approach do |msg|
      puts "Make everything as " 
            + msg + " as possible, but not " 
            + msg + "r." + NAME
    end
  end
end
Programming.new.main
</script>

Hot Ruby is a project which aims to port the Ruby Virtual Machine over to ECMAScript

I get quite a few questions from friends about JavaScript and although it is de facto client side scripting language most developers have a limited understanding of it.

I started down the path of writing a detailed tutorial, but thought that was not the web way of doing things, when there is probably a better video presentation already out there.

Douglas Crockford from Yahoo has a great series of presentations on some of the basics that any web developer should know about JavaScript.