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Wherein Nicolas Bevacqua discusses the native APIs that underlie your favorite jQuery functions. It’s worth reading — mostly as an exercise in peeling back the onion layers to remember just how much is going on behind the scenes of some of these functions. However, he’s simplifying a bit in a few cases (e.g., with the XHR) so be aware of that.

Fairly thorough intro to functional testing with CasperJS, posted on the New Relic blog. (And/but: why someone would use XPath over CSS selectors is puzzling to me…)

Worth it, even if they’d left out the rubric. (Which of course, they didn’t.)

Rob Fletcher, writing at Ad-Hockery re: how to ape Spock’s where blocks in Jasmine tests. It’s a pretty clever technique, and it looks like he arrived at roughly the same place as Neckbeard.js. (Not that I’d heard of Neckbeard.js before either… so that was a bonus.)

James Padolsey, writing over at Nettuts. Great post that echoes a lot of the same points that Angus Croll made in his recent talk at Web Directions. tl;dr: Question your assumptions, don’t just use what you’ve seen.

In the run-up to the Functional JavaScript release (pre-order your copy!), you should read this great post by Darren Newton (@d_run) on using Underscore-Contrib for functional style JS.

Pamela Fox gives an overview of some of the server- vs. client-side UI decisions (putting it in context at Coursera). She gets in to some of the trade-offs and makes cases for each one having its place.