Here’s a list of some JavaScript books:

• Pro Javascript Techniques by John Resig - amazon.com
• PPK on JavaScript by Peter-Paul Koch - amazon.com
• JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, 5th edition by David Flanagan - amazon.com
• The JavaScript Anthology by James Edwards and Cameron Adams - amazon.com
• Beginning JavaScript with DOM Scripting and Ajax by Christian Heilmann - amazon.com
• DOM Scripting by Jeremy Keith - amazon.com
• Bulletproof Ajax by Jeremy Keith - amazon.com

Personally I spend a lot of time with The Definitive Guide.

Eric Clapton played Shanghai last night. Lots of old tunes from the Derek and the Dominoes era. More details here. Talking of Dereks one of his two support guitarists on this tour is Derek Trucks.

Shanghai Metro has a new website. There’s no metro map on the site though. Why would there be?

Lexical analysis of recent keynotes from SteveJ, BillG and MikeyD.

Note to self: for the following to work on a Mac with fink’s python

Sparkle is a programmers tool that automates application updates.

ChocoFlop is a CoreImage based image editor currently in pre-release. Looks good.

The audited 2005 financial statements for the Mozilla foundation are online. Income from search kick-backs was USD 50 M. Profits after tax where about USD 26 M. Wonder if any of this money will find its way back to the unpaid volunteers… See also Mitchell’s blog.

A list of portable digital audio recorders.

find and grep are the programmers friend. But when using Subversion find will also decend into .svn directories. Generally we don’t want this to happen. The following find command will skip .svn directories. For more type ‘man find’ at your favorite prompt.