Yahoo!'s video of Douglas Crockford's The JavaScript Programming Language lecture is definitely the best overview of JavaScript that I've ever seen. (The first part is embedded below, and the remaining 3 parts are linked after that.) I saw it a while back, but it's been getting a fair amount of press in the social media space this week.

Part 2 Part 3 Part 4

I'm self-taught when it comes to JavaScript, as I've never taken a formal class that dealt with it, and it was refreshing to find that I've managed to pick up most of the good habits that Crockford recommends while avoiding most of the bad habits he cautions against. I must have made good choices as to which sites' and browser extensions' source code I studied.

I think next I'll get started on watching their "Advanced JavaScript" series.

I've finally gotten around to updating RSS Ticker. Among other things like new locales and code optimization, this version includes a rewrite of the options dialog and its related code, so any reported bugs related to the Options dialog should be fixed now. This includes the known incompatibility with the All-in-One Sidebar extension.

You can download the latest version of RSS Ticker 1.9 from the RSS Ticker homepage.

On a related note: I originally wrote RSS Ticker so that I could use Firefox's Live Bookmarks to manage my feeds but still have an easy way to see new items from a small number of feeds. Since then, the number of feeds I follow has grown, and the ticker interface has become too restrictive for me. If this sounds like you, you might want to check out my new extension called Feedbar. It uses your Live Bookmarks for feed management like RSS Ticker, but it displays the new items in a sidebar, so it's easier to scan through a large number of feeds.

It's been a week since I first brought up the problem with certain Digg Search RSS feeds being broken. I reported the bug through Digg's "Report a Website bug" form, and I mentioned it here as well. Has a week been enough time to fix what is most likely a simple programming error?

No. Initially, I had assumed that the feeds would be fixed within a few days, and I'd be able to do a nice little "I reported a bug and Digg fixed it in x hours/days" post, but now it's turning into "How long can it possibly take?" Has anyone else ever reported a bug to Digg? How long did it take to get fixed? I'd hate to think that they're not fixing the bug on purpose just because it was reported by someone they don't care for.