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Archive for March, 2007

TinyURL JavaScript API

I've been writing a bookmarklet for Twitter that will allow you to post URLs to Twitter, that are first compressed using TinyURL. So I thought I'd share the TinyURL callback API I wrote.

The day I appeared in Scientific American

Several years ago I wrote Marbles Squared, a 'lightweight addictive puzzle game' for the Palm Pilot. I would often peruse Google for reviews and download figures, until one day, I found an article that referenced my little game.

How to add Twitter to your blog, without it hanging your site

Update: for the latest version of this script, and complete control over how it looks, see Add Twitter to your blog (step-by-step)   Add tweets to your pages that won't break when Twitter goes down!   You might be inclined to add your 'Twitters' to your blog via JavaScript - the only problem is when Twitter's traffic goes up, [...]

A few more jQuery plugins: crop, labelOver and pluck

I've been hoarding a few plugins which I thought it was about time I did some sharing. They are: crop - crop any image on the fly using JavaScript only labelOver - based on an article over at A List Apart an accessible method of compressing forms pluck - return an array of values for a specific attribute

How to get cookies working in IE6 stand alone

IE is the biggest player in the browser land, and as much as I hate to do so, I have to test everything in IE. Now since IE7 is picking up ground, testing is done in both IE6 and IE7. So, I upgraded to IE7, and downloaded and use a stand alone version IE6. [...]

How to make a CMS editor more usable

If you use TinyMCE, or any other WYSIWYG for that matter, to manage the content entry on your CMS, one of the reoccurring problems (I find) is formatting not being applied and blank line breaks when they're not wanted. The client then thinks there's a problem with the styling of the page, when in [...]

Firebug in IE for *any* web site

As a web developer, I'm constantly using Firebug, but when it comes to testing in IE it's a nightmare if there's any bugs. Firebug does provide a 'lite' version, but you have to have in it in every page you want to debug. Well, not anymore.