message query for javascript

Too boring

Less posts about PHP, javascript and KML to come, as my friend - let's call him the cowardly civil servant to offer him some anonymity - found it boring. While he was reading at work. How do you find the time mate? I'll tell you what's boring, it's m...

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...

everything is json these days

I can remember the day I first heard of it and didn't see the benefit of it at all but now I use it for everything (like the folkestone map), I have a feed of absolutely everything on the site as json... Think I might need to change my neat urls to a...

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...

Is my reply button broken?

It's hard to tell, this is fairly quiet for comments at the best of times, and my Dad's away so that's about 50% of my audience at a stroke. Just heard from a friend that it's not working, do me a favour and give it a try...[/neediness]UPDATE: Might ...

Guessing it's not all redundancies at the BBC

Does this sound like the BBC to you? It might not be I guess. I got this job ad seven times today, once recruitment companies get your details they WILL NOT EVER unsubscribe you. I have to report each one as spam now, it's for their own good...Hope y...

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...

Been quiet for a few days

No I've not been out on the larry-large every day over christmas, been a bit under the weather actually, though that's not what's kept me off the computer. When I'm not at work and Clare's home too I never get to sit in front of the computer, she's p...
Rated 6.38/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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 ...

Hell yeah, encouragement, that's what I need!

Well it was a lunch more than an actual party, and there's really not a huge amount to report, and you're not interested anyway, but HELLO TO ME IN THE FUTURE, how's it going five years from now? Do you remember that day, about five years ago, when y...
Rated 4.07/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...
Rated 6.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...

It's called a carousel

I think the Flash version was a free download... Originally we were going with a really cool javascript solution but there were problems in Safari I think...Google for free flash carousel download or something......

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...

RE: Fullsome weekender

Just a thought, so bare with me on this one.Reading your most recent post, I got to thinking about comments. Now someone may have already done this, but I got to thinking about the process of having to go to a comments page to make a tiny comment. Th...

And now I'm aching

I have monster back pain today, I don't think it's the day-after-the-day-after effect from our walk to Hythe though, as I was fine when I got up. Possibly I've just twisted, though more likely it's sheer weight of work, I'm working on a big old redes...

All sounds a bit "non standard" to me

Yeah, the more javascript you get to do the better, but I'm not into flash, like I'm not into .net...Going back to where you used to work is COOL, have you had a step up in pay or is it for enjoyment or some other reason?Hmm, by "non standard" I mean...

RE: You've not been there long have you?

I'm being dull and heading back to the IT consultancy I used to work for. We're going to start providing Rich Internet Application consultancy in conjuction with Adobe Consulting. So it's going to be lots of Flash and Macromedia stuff, a big change f...

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...

RE: Interactive map of Folkestone

Thank you for puting out such an amazing site!I myself am going to make a google map API with information about the bars and pubs around our conference venue. I have no experience in javascript, but I managed to put on markers and their info windows...

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...
Rated 4.57/10 on Folkestone Gerald

Tip top weekend

For a change we didn't go to Canterbury, though we will be again this weekend. Made a proper session of it on Saturday to celebrate Clare's brother Kev's visit from the Miami. Lunch in Escondido, then a crawl around Hythe taking it (at least) The Bel...

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...
Rated 6.04/10 on Folkestone Gerald

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...