Updated March '08: I've separated the plugin to a separate jquery.hint.js file and included a fix to get around Firefox's autocomplete You will see a lot of web sites with search boxes have text already populated inside of the field and when you select the input text box it disappears and reappears when it’s not selected. This [...]

I wrote a little tool to help me command line test URLs in my mod_perl dev environment. It lets me pass ful URLs + query strings via the command line, and see, or more importantly, debug the output. Apache is running with mod_perl and we are using the PerlHandler to forward requests to. There's really nothing [...]

I do a lot of work that requires me to log in and out of remote machines using SSH. As a result, I prefer to configure my laptop (working machine) to SSH without prompting for a password on those machines I know to be secure. Here's how to do it.

While I was working on one of my client's web site, I realised that I hadn't taken any note of the (hex) colours during my mock up phase. Initially thinking I should download a colour picker, I realised I could probably drag and drop.

Update: due to popular demand, I've caved in, and written a plugin and demos with multiple-select boxes populating each other and driven from MySQL. View: Auto-populate multiple select boxes If you are familiar with using select boxes for categorisation and sub-categories, such as ebay does when selling an item, [...]

Before I get flamed for claiming the impossible, this is how I achieved a goal that was entirely in AJAX, but I needed it to across different domains! Some background: Some time ago I found, and implemented this awesome heatmap click tracking for the company I work for. However, since our test machines run everything [...]

I recently came across a funny bug where I was executing an AJAX method and the response was empty. I check the server side and I know that my particular query is returning a result, but thanks to Firebug I can see it's failing in the browser. So there was something definitely amiss.