How to refactor a long chunk of asynchronous code is one thing I learned during my Javascript & CouchDB project. It's not a difficult thing, but I thought it was before I figured out how to do it, so I guess it might be interesting for Javascript newbies.
Asynchronous code
In the first couple of weeks I struggled with this new style of coding before I got the hang of it. If you're fairly new to Javascript, you're probably used to just assign a variable in one line and use it in the next line. In the asynchronous world you query for a value and do stuff with it in the callback function of the query.
To illustrate - "normal" code looks like this: