This document provides an overview of effective JavaScript techniques including: - Using closures to reduce typing, clean up code, provide privacy and sometimes improve performance. - Building objects with closures and avoiding unnecessary methods like bind in asynchronous operations. - Using object literals and shortcuts to make objects more inspectable and avoid unnecessary property accesses. - Tips for interacting with the DOM like avoiding closures that reference nodes and using references over lookups. - New features in ECMAScript 5 like Function.prototype.bind and getters/setters. - Optimizations in v8 like avoiding delete, using object literals, and not altering objects after creation.