General Promise Resources - kriskowal/q GitHub Wiki

Presentations

"Redemption from Callback Hell" (video) introduces how you can avoid the problems of messy callback APIs by using promises
"Promises, Promises" (video) introduces promises from the ground up, gives an overview of the recent history of promises, and provides some guidance on using promises in your real-world code.
"Callbacks, Promises, and Coroutines (oh my!)" is a deep dive into asynchronous programming patterns and practices, including introductory material for those new to asynchronous programming.
"Boom! Promises/A+ Was Born" explains the Promises/A+ zeitgeist.
"Promises and Generators: Control Flow Utopia" (video) steps through a specific example, showing the pitfalls of callback-based solutions and the benefits promises alone can give you, as well as promises plus ES6 generators.
"No More Pyramids: Tools to Keep Callbacks Neat" (video) explains how promises and generators can help you with callback hell.
"The Promised Land" introduces promises and the RSVP.js library, both generally and in an Ember.js context.

promisejs.org's Introduction page shows the very basics of using promises.
"You're Missing the Point of Promises" emphasizes the parallel between sequential synchronous code and promise-based asynchronous code.
Promises in Node.js with Q – An Alternative to Callbacks (medium version) in-depth dive into promises (as defined by Promises/A+)
How-to Compose Node.js Promises with Q (medium version) functional programming techniques applied to promises (continuation of above article)
JavaScript Promises: There and back again gives an introduction to the promise API introduced in ES6
We have a problem with promises explains many common mistakes and misunderstandings

JavaScript Jabber #37, by the maintainers of this library, was all about promises and Q.
NodeUp #46, a "promises by promisers show," was about promises and generators in the Node.js ecosystem.