As JavaScript developers, we have quite crazy requirements. The playing field is in a state of constant flux and one of the best ways to keep up is interacting with other developers and reading their code. Blogs, such as the one you're reading, are a perfect amalgamation of these two activities.

Today, I'd like to bring your attention to a number of blogs written by pretty well versed developers, focusing on JavaScript development, that you owe yourselves to bookmark.

A Quick Word on my Choices

Even though these blogs aren't updated often, in fact a lot of them get updated maybe thrice a year, the content they do have are worth their weight in, well, smartly written JavaScript. The developers below vary from wildly popular to almost obscure but they have one thing in common -- their passion for JavaScript.

I've limited myself to a cliff notes version of each dev to keep it short. Don't loiter around -- click on those links and get reading!

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Creator of IE7.js and cssQuery.

Creator of the incredibly useful Packer script

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of Pro JavaScript Design Patterns.

Works at Twitter.

Tweets at @ded

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Inventor of the JavaScript language.

Works at Mozilla.

Remember to check out his podcast, as well.

Tweets at @BrendanEich



Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Core team member of the Prototype library.

Author of the script.aculo.us library.

Ruby on Rails core alumnus.

Tweets at @thomasfuchs

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Lead developer of HTML5 Boilerplate and Modernizr.

jQuery core team member.

Works at Google.

Tweets at @paul_irish

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Prototype core team member.

Github repos here.

Tweets at @kangax

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Creator of the JS1K competition

Tweets at @kuvos

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of the book JavaScript Patterns.

Creator of smush.it.

Works at Facebook.

Tweets at @stoyanstefanov

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of the Raphaël library.



Tweets at @DmitryBaranovsk

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

YUI team member

Tweets at @ls_n

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Contributor to the jQuery and Modernizr projects.

Creator of so many jQuery plugins that we're ethically obligated to use the word buttload.

Tweets at @cowboy

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

jQuery team member.

Works at Microsoft.

Tweets at @reybango

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of Introducing HTML5

Runs jQuery for Designers.

Tweets at @rem

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of jQuery Enlightenment and co author of jQuery Cookbook.

Tweets at @codylindley

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Co-author of jQuery Cookbook.

Creator of jQuery Lint.

Tweets at @padolsey

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Creator of the Functional library.

Github repos here.

Tweets at @osteele.

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Works at Twitter.

Github repos here.

Tweets at @bcherry

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of Closure: The Definitive Guide.

Tweets at @bolinfest

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of the Faye and Sylvester libraries.

Github repos here.

Tweets at @jcoglan

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Works at Twitter.

Tweets at @angusTweets

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Author of the FuseJS library.

Github repos here.

Tweets at @jdalton

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Works at Nokia.

Tweets at @WebReflection

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Dude is a darn enigma, wrapped in a riddle, shrouded in mystery. The articles are pretty much one of the best you'll get to read so don't miss out.

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Founder of Ajaxian.

Tweets at @dalmaer

Find her musings on JavaScript at her blog.

Author of jQuery fundamentals.

Co-author of jQuery Cookbook.

Tweets at @rmurphey

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Member of the MooTools team.

Tweets at @davidwalshblog

Find his musings on JavaScript at his blog.

Member of the jQuery team [bug triage and API docs].

Tweets at @addyosmani

That's a Wrap!

I'm sure a lot of you are frothing at the mouth by this list not including someone. Fret not! Chime in below and I'll make sure to keep this list periodically updated.