I am addicted to making Greasemonkey scripts. I started making scripts to help me in an online game I play, but now I make them for many other sites. For my clients, I have made Greasemonkey scripts that can: scraping data for import into spreadsheets/databases adding AJAX to a site that didn’t support it before…
Read More Greasemonkey ScriptsFor a year, I was REALLY into making widgets. I’d would still be making them if they ever fixed the bugs I reported and got the performance of the widget engine better. My self-hosted homepage for my widgets was here, while my approved widgets are hosted on the official site. There is one secret widget…
Read More My Time with Yahoo! WidgetsTried White Gummy – delicious+ Red Gummy – delicious Strawberry Shortcake – pretty good Want to Try Pink Starburst Orchard Oasis Peanut Butter and Jelly Skittles Raspberry Dreamin’ Pineapple Dreamin’ Apple Pie Not sure if my Jamba Juice knows about Fruity Pebbles Push Pop Bluetopia Sourpatch Kid Now and Later chocolate gummy bear Blue Gummy…
Read More Jamba Juice Secret MenuHaving gone through these three frameworks, I’m going to say something I wish other review sites said: For each purpose, there is a “best” framework. It all depends on context. The Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) If you’re building a rich web application from scratch, YUI will have very thorough tools to do anything you…
Read More nano review of JavaScript frameworks (YUI, jQuery, moo)My Windows Vista Home Premium installation was on one of the Seagate 7200.11 drives with the bad firmware, so I’ve been trying to do something about it for a while now. This weekend I used SelfImage to copy my installation from one drive to another via my windows XP machine. After 12 hours of waiting…
Read More Ghosting a Windows Vista Home Premium InstallationI wanted to write a Greasemonkey script to modify all mailto: links on a page, but to do that, I have to find them first. Here’s my first attempt: //a[@href]/text()[contains(.,”@”)] It’s pretty bad. I wanted to find links starting with “mailto:” but couldn’t figure out how to operate on the href attribute. second attempt: //a/@href[contains(.,”mailto:”)]/..…
Read More Using XPath to find email address linksWhat I Was Planning On Doing: bike to work hang out, sync up with Austin @ work go to a local bike shop and check out pedals / new brakes P. Terry’s What I Did Instead: spend an hour taking off old corroded toilet lever bike to Home Depot get new lever / longer supply…
Read More What I Did TodaySo I installed AVG 8 Free. I think was using 7.5 Free before. The new interface is nice, but AVG seems to be going the Microsoft/Norton/Nero philosophy of adding as much junk as possible to get as many bullet points for their sales departments as possible. I also scanned some Microsoft Word macro viruses, and…
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