There are some great resources online; I occasionally wonder why I buy books at all, but the fact is that I like to have a hard copy that I can browse through manually.
That being said, as I’ve been working with Javascript for the last few days I’ve found quite a few useful pages. You can easily find some with Google, but my favorite has been this nicely formatted column of Javascript syntax and functions: javascript-reference.info.
I guess I’m a sucker for great design.
Totally off the topic of Javascript, but it occurs to me that design has a huge influence on the effectiveness of written information; too little may be a distraction, and not the best presentation of information (though some people, I among them, also have admiration for well written text documents) — too much “design” (ie, WIRED magazine) can also be a distraction, to the point where the information itself that you’re trying to read becomes obscured. Speaking of plain text documents (I’m thinking specifically of ASCII documents or plain-vanilla HTML), it could be said that the best examples of these are also well-designed, if in an extrememly minimalist style.
