Pretty much every personal project I work on I try to make it publicly available - usually under an MIT license - but I pretty much always forget to include an MIT license file. There's an Open Source Initiative with the license, but it doesn't have the date, nor the license holder. So I've released [...]

We all know Google engineers are working away a stuff that's so amazing they have to wait a couple of years before releasing it otherwise it'll blow our minds up (Gmail, maps, etc). That said, they've released functionality tucked away inside the search results page that I never knew existed. Full accessibility support.

The weekend before last I blitzed through an idea I had on the shelf for about 6 months and put it live under the name JS Bin.

Just sharing a nice little code snippet that makes use of regular expressions instead of loops for converting.

If you work in a secure(ish) environment then you'll be changing passwords on a regular basis. An old colleague and I came up with a script that would generate a password based on fictional words from a dictionary lookup. Then we/he realised that this could actually be generated on the fly, be completely random and still [...]

Since I'm always posting code snippets, it made sense to apply some syntax highlighting. There's a few different ways to achieve this depending on your preference.

If you're familiar with the del.icio.us tag search box, then you'll know it will grow with the length of the content you enter. This is particularly useful for search boxes or tagging entry boxes, though the only downfall (I think) of del.icio.us's entry box is that it can grow to become wider than the entire page [...]