Quick Notes to self on Windows admin:

First, don’t run live virus scanners on production servers. Scheduled scans fine, but live???

Second, if you are running many production servers on VMWare, don’t run the same scheduled virus scan on every server at the same time every night. That begs for a beating from your common sense (you left it in the closet).

Third, production app servers on VMWare???? Nah, app servers don’t use that much CPU, they can share…

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I decided to load up a post with all the places you need to know to be able to develop nearly anything in javascript. Not just AJAX, but any javascript using web application that will target more than one major browser. So, take a deep breath, and here we go:

• QuirksMode - Tells you about a huge amount of the inconsistencies between the major browsers, in CSS as well as JavaScript.
• Cross-Browser.com - Handy cross-browser utilities. I have personally used several of the utilities from here, and can say that they do help in the cross-browser development struggle.
• JavaScript sucks (volume 1) - Bob hits the nail on the head. Make sure you know about all the little gotchas in JavaScript.
  

  Everything is an object, except for the three or forty things that aren’t. Ugh.

• JavaScript Sucks (volume 2) - Volume 1 was so popular, it spawned a volume 2
• MochiKit makes JavaScript suck less - From the same guy who said JavaScript sucks two volumes, he decided to do something about it. MochiKit is a JS library designed with the programmer in mind, also seems to be designed to return the same answer every time (not always true in JS land). Good on ya, Bob.
• The Tao of Mac - JavaScript - I bookmark many of the pages on this site, as it is a great human edited link resource.
• JavaScript OO Primer - Not a lot of us out here in web-dev land know that JavaScript can do OO. Maybe pythonmac.org should be javascriptmac.org? Bob knows way too much about this stuff. Since I am linking to everything under the sun over there, maybe you should just read the entire javascript category there.
• The JavaScript Diaries - Just getting started? Start here.
• ECMA 262 aka ‘JavaScript’ - What list would be complete without the JavaScript spec itself?

People don’t use JavaScript because they like it, they use it because they have no choice. A choice between bread and water or nothing is not a choice. If you do find yourself out there however, go pick up Venkman, at least it will help ease the debugging pain (if you develop Mozilla first, like me). And always remember to NEVER cross the streams.

Let me know of any links you would add to this list, and do take note of the fact I am NOT adding AJAX-related links up here. That is for another post.

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