Flutterby™! : JavaScript links otd

A couple of JavaScript links. The first two were recommended by Elf Sternberg:

• Coffee Script is a Ruby like language that compiles into JavaScript. It's written in JavaScript and runs under Node.js, a command-line/stand-alone environment for JavaScript.
• Douglas Crockford has a lot of writing on JavaScript

Two from Dwayne Anderson:

• Backbone.js "...supplies structure to JavaScript-heavy applications by providing models with key-value binding and custom events, collections with a rich API of enumerable functions, views with declarative event handling, and connects it all to your existing application over a RESTful JSON interface." I'm not sure what all that means, but Dwayne said "I can't overstate my love for this library. It's completely changed how I write client-side code."
• Underscore.js is a set of functional programming libraries.

Okay, one more:

• Showdown is Markdown for JavaScript.