…No, I don’t mean getting yourself a date via JavaScript. You’re on your own on that one. But Digital Web is happy to have our newest contributor Lawrence O’Sullivan offer his advice on Extending The JavaScript Date Object with User Defined Methods. JavaScript’s internal date-manipulation skills are a bit underdeveloped, but Lawrence brings it all under control with some smart prototype inheritance. (Insert your own joke about dating/prototype-inheritance here.)

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