message query for javascript

Bah, I just wrote my first greasemonkey plugin

Just after everything goes a bit jetpack. Whoosh, me. Was planning on ditching greasemonkey and just making an addon instead, but do we got to develop everything twice now, or can I develop in Jetpack and have it make a standalone Firefox addon?...

Folkestone Library / Amazon plugin

See here, find out if a book is available in your local library each time you visit the page on Amazon - brilliant!It's a bit techie to use at the moment, you have to Use Firefox as your web browser, install https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/a...

Kent libraries Amazon Firefox Greasemonkey mashup

I've made a firefox plugin, to look up if a book's available in the library when you're viewing its page on Amazon. Normally I'd be sending people TO Amazon rather than from Amazon, hoping to make a commission, but here's where I give something back....

A nice cup of TEA

Aha, tricked you, it's not "tea" at all, it's TEA from Hogsback brewery! The joke may be on me though, I poured it out a bit hastily and didn't heed the warning about not pouring the sediment into the glass. So it's a bit cloudy.Trying to write my fi...

twfeed.js - twitter feed javascript badge / widget you can use for free

Get it here, a simple js feed thing that I wrote for my blog and am spreading round a few other places. Look out non techie / web page owning readers, example code coming up, you might as well turn away now...I know there are billions of these out th...

Yes, very simple stuff

I use it on my own admin pages here, but I've done some new things with the dates that I really like. Using jquery ui datepicker just makes things great, haven't transferred that here yet though....

Textarea line numbers (using javascript?)

Someone must have done this? I want to add line numbers to my input box, so as to make the inline editor I'm using at work a bit more like a real editor... any ideas?UPDATE: codepress looks quite good, doesn't work exactly with the jtageditor I'm alr...

Ever feel lacking in skills?

I do, all my skills are in software, if the power went off tomorrow I'd be SUNK! I wish I had more hardware skills, not just computer hardware, but general mechanics and making and fixing things. Here's an interesting article along those lines from w...

It's quite good isn't it?

I'm using it for everything right now! I've extended it quite a lot at work, this is the "out of the box" version though.

Anyway, where is Lost series four episode one?

Photo notes

This aquariam post is using the Flickr style notes, but using PhotoNotes, still seems there's no way of getting your existing notes out of Flickr.Changing the way I use my images on here, to make sure I'm not breaching Flickr's terms of service, migh...

Google Maps hacks

I'm sure you've checked out Saturday's walk around Canterbury by now, I've merged in the photos that I took along the way now too. Involved a bit of a hack really, Flickr offers a geocoded feed of my photos, and will let me narrow that down to say ju...

Google Maps API + Thickbox

Had some trouble for a while at work with getting our google maps working with this thickbox, and I put it off for ages (telling people not to put a map in a lightbox), but today I got to the bottom of it. Don't load your map until the lightbox has l...

My gigography

Just done some fiddling about on the site, rearranged the gigography a tiny bit. Now, first time you go there the big boring explanation of what it's all about should still appear at the top of the page. BUT, here's the clever bit, if you then click ...

Fake GAP voucher

Hmm, I smell bullshit, there's a supposedly fake GAP voucher doing the rounds offering a 60% discount at GAP today, I heard about this on www.bbc.co.uk/breakfast - don't worry though, GAP will still be offering a genuine 30% discount to anyone turnin...

Captain Jack

I got a ticketmaster email today to tell me John Barrowman is playing Portsmouth Guildhall... doing what? Acting out scenes from Doctor Who, or a medley of songs from his West End showdays? Intriguing, I might go if it was local. And if it wasn �27. ...

New JSON feed of my blog

Oh that'll come in handy for all those mashups based around me you've been planning... Not a straight feed of what I post every day, it searches the content of the site, probably seven or eight years worth of postings now. JSON is "javascript object ...

Mulled wine! And BEER!

This one's mostly for Dean, I know he likes to hear about how hard we're working at work. We're having another one of our fun days tomorrow, one last barbecue to celebrate a big deal working out, and everyone working hard to make it happen. Also, you...

Show And Stay

Been working on Show and Stay for ages, it's just gone live today, SMART! It's a whole new look, courtesy of our army of designers and builders, but I've contributed most of the dynamic stuff, sometimes adapting things people here did before me and p...

jquery is great

I use it for everything, it's well recommended. I'm sure prototype is good now too, but jquery is tiny, and does everything you need, and the code you write with it is tiny too. I have got really into the way you select things to do things to too. As...

xml namespaces in jquery

How do I access xml tags in other namespaces using jquery? If I have some xml like: hey yeah woo I can easily get any of the elements with something like $('thing')but how do I get them if the elements are namespaced, like hey yea...

Up to our HIPs (geddit?!?!?)

First off, huge trouble at the quiz at The Ship last night - the wife and I were on different teams, as we had friends with us. It was looking like Clare's team was going to walk the mini quiz with a straight ten out of ten, and we'd got one wrong, s...

Wagamama today

Going to spend a fairly lazy day around the pubs of Canterbury, starting with a lunch at Wagamama, and HEY, we got a voucher: That's from this feature that a friend alerted us to, we'd be going there today anyway though, nice.Had a good week, felt bu...

Sweet titles revisited

I've replaced some code at work with sweet titles from Dustin Diaz, that I've been using here for ages - hover over most of the links, more info will probably pop up. The original author has long stopped updating this code, too many stupid comments f...

Dude

You working at the uni now? Very very long time no speak.A couple of things I found that IE really doesn't like, it's stricter with javascript, you can't use a variable without declaring it with var first, ievar i = 0;and not justi = 0;Also I had som...

RSS fun

Done a bit of work on my maps, changing the "feed" that provides the locations for the maps to be standard RSS. Not for any great reason, but it does mean I'm using the same format as things like Yahoo's traffic tracker, so I can plug their RSS feed ...

Done my Javascript referer thing

See my landing page thing in action like so:Google for Paul Clarke CVClick on the Paul Clarke CV link in the google resultsWait for the very exciting floating window to appear on the results saying "I see you came here from a search result (for Paul ...

slayeroffice | code | image cross fade redux

Flickr slideshow style fading of images, but all in unobtrusive js and css

Sly new coding feature

Updated my AJAX selector, the bit of a form that (on here) looks like this:but you can't click that one, it's just an image... Usually when you see one of these on one of my pages it's going to select something from one of my databases, but I put som...

Traversing the HTML Table with JavaScript and DOM interfaces

RE: More Javascript

I'm not sure (!variable) is the same as (variable!=null) is it?Also does IE support getAttribute() as expected? You should be testing for the presence of the method if you're using DOM.if (obj.getAttribute && (otherTests)) { // use DOM method... }els...