by Douglas Crockford
I wish all programming books were this concise and relevant, I'd probably read more of them if they were. This is a great book to get you up and running in one of my favorites languages, the much under-appreciated JavaScript.
Anyone doing a lot of JavaScript development would benefit from reading this book. I feel very comfortable in the depth of my JavaScript knowledge, and I work with JavaScript on a weekly, if not daily, basis. I still learned things from this book. In many cases, I already knew about the particula...