Skofoo

"Measuring programming progress by lines of code is like measuring aircraft building progress by weight. "

Measuring aircraft progress by weight is actually viable because it is already known what the final weight will be.

A person is more likely to say "March 12 2010" instead of something like "12th of March 2010", hence the M/D/Y format.

CoffeeScript has C#-esque lambdas.

item_names = $("li.menu_item span").map (x) -> x.innerHTML