Closures are a very powerful yet underused features unique to JavaScript (and other ECMAScript languages). They essentially provide your code with private variables that other scripts can't access. This is accomplished by exploiting three interesting features (or "quirks") of JavaScript:

In our line of work, we see a ton of terrific ideas and usually hear very standardized messaging around them. It usually follows a consistent tune of "We're looking to get a working prototype as proof of concept" or "We don't have much budget so we're getting quotes to get investors interested.".

More and more of us are doing business without ever meeting our service providers face-to-face. There’s one common stumbling block that can hinder any deal, and that’s the issue of trust.

Here are five simple steps that have helped us to build trust online.

On Wednesday, June 9th, 2010, it was publicly announced that Unleashed Technologies, LLC would be the strategic partner for Automated Graphics Systems (AGS) located out of White Plains, MD for co-location, web hosting, and web management. The strategic partnership came about after a synergistic relationship was found between the two organizations.

Many web developers like to dive head-first into code. Others prefer careful planning first, creating a road map, and then coding it piece-by-piece. No matter what your methodology is, there are several best-practices you can adopt to build a successful web application. Here are some general tips to keep in mind:

Unleashed Technologies, LLC recently partnered with BookDivas Entertainment, LLC to roll out the brand new bookdivas.com website. BookDivas.com is a community based website that serves the female young adult market that have a passion for reading and writing poetry, short stories, and full length novels. From their previous roll-out bookdivas.com needed a web presence that was easier to manage, offered an easier interface for their visitors/members to interact, and was easier for regular contributors/admins of the website to manage. The new website includes:

The folks over at Web Directions are at it again.  They have just opened their State of the Web 2010 survey of professional web designers and developers.  The idea is to see what technologies and practices are being employed by web firms.  Although many "best practice" articles do exist around the net, they want to find out what developers actually use/do when creating new online presences.

Over the course of the past decade many different content management systems have come, stayed, and gone. Even today we see hundreds of players competing within the U.S. market using different models in order to capture niche verticals. As software continually expands it also becomes commoditized and features once considered to be "amazing" are par for the course.

Exactly one year ago, John Resig and the jQuery team released version 1.3. This release came packed with feature upgrades, such as the new ultra-fast Sizzle selector engine, live event bindings, and more. Development has been rather quiet since then, leading many to speculate that nothing major was going on - boy were they wrong!

I've been working on a project last week that involves creating a custom plugin for FCKEditor. I needed a way to inject custom code into the HTML output (custom Magento templating stuff, actually). I wanted the code to be hidden from the user but easily managed by the user through a dialog box. This way, the user can easily change this without worrying about the underlying code (or FCKEditor corrupting it).