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…a Dell m1530 XPS laptop to be exact. What follows is my review of the system and really it’s just an overview of the nits and annoyances with the system. Truly, it’s safe to assume that if it’s not mentioned in the review then it’s perfect. It’s also safe to assume that none of the “issues” in this review are deal breakers. At the risk of giving away the ending, I’ll give away the ending: I love this system, I would buy it again and I would recommend it. If you’re considering buying this laptop then hopefully this review will clue you into a few of the pitfalls.

Simply put, a closure is a variable, created inside a function, which continues to exist after the function has finished executing. Understanding closures will allow you to avoid damaging memory leaks in Internet Explorer and also allow you to fully exploit private variables and methods when creating Javascript objects.

This reference will cover the basic language constructs. This is not a beginner's guide to programming. This article focuses on bringing people who already know another programming language up to speed on Javascript methodology.

One of the most overlooked, and powerful, features when defining Javascript in your page (either externally or in-line) is the defer attribute. By adding a defer attribute you are telling the browser that it can wait until it's done with the rest of the page before doing anything with the Javascript block.

This reference will cover Javascript numeric literals and objects as well as the default Javascript Operators which manipulate those numbers.

This reference will cover the Javascript Date Object, how it stores Dates, how you can manipulate them, create calendars, countdown timers, prototype them to add your own functionality, as well as provide a complete method reference.

This reference will cover the difference between String Literals and String Objects, Strings' properties and methods, some common and practical uses of Strings (particularly in regards to JSON and AJAX), and offer a few, useful prototypes to extend the String class.

In the 90's Microsoft donated the standard Web Core Fonts that most every browser uses today and those core fonts have remained unchanged until now. With the release of Windows Vista, Microsoft has unleashed something quite new on the Web -- the "C" fonts; Cambria, Calibri, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, and Corbel. Here's how to download them for free and how to use them in your web sites.

DZONE's share feature is -- by far -- the most fun of the new features since I can clip interesting articles and make them available on my web pages. This snippet will show you, step by step, how to include your shares on your own web page. The only thing you need is HTML, no server-side scripting is necessary.