Rollbar: Top 10 Javascript errors from 1000+ projects and how to avoid them – I am not enough of a Javascript developer to say that I have seen most of these, but the writeups for the problems look very helpful.

Signal v Noise: Stimulus: a modest Javascript framework – my normal response would be  “yippee – another Javascript framework! NOT!”, but coming from the creator of Ruby on Rails, it may be worth a look.

British Library: How to build a medieval manuscript – cool article with insight on the difficulty of creating books by hand

Bohdan Liashenko: How to promote your Github project – good info to know, but seems more like “marketing” to me

Eric Elliott: How one JIRA ticket made $1 million dollars – ideas on metrics to track to make sure that the software development being done has economic value.

First Contributions:  A project to help people get started making contributions to open source software.

Caches to Caches: My Workflow org-agenda – how to use the org application in Emacs for managing your work

Karl Voit: Organize Your Life with Org-Mode – Another person’s testimony to the usefulness of org-mode, I need to check this out..

 

 

Remo Jansen: The most important thing about Javascript is accessibility. I think does make it easier for people to get started with the language. One thing that makes it more difficult to me is that Javascript tends to be only one part of designing or developing a web application (necessary but not sufficient ).

IEEE Computer: A PDF of “Software Defect Reduction Top 10 List” by Barry Boehm and Victor Basili. Published in January 2001, it still reflects good wisdom on what to watch out for and how reviews can catch many problems before they get too big….