Archive for the ‘javascript’ Category

Using SyntaxHighlighter to Format Code in WordPress

Thursday, August 14th, 2008

Based on a question in the StackOverflow beta site, I did some quick research into what are the best ways to perform syntax highlighting on code that is posted on blogs. Among the methods that were suggested (by myself or others): Hack together your own display logic to format it as ...

Google Finance Firefox Quicksearch

Thursday, March 23rd, 2006

Want to have a quicksearch link to Google Finance (just entered Beta) in your Firefox Quicksearch? Download this file (googlefinance.zip), unzip the files (not the readme.txt) into your C:\Program Files\Mozilla Firefox\searchplugins directory, restart Firefox and go. Happy Hunting!

Preview Your Links with Unobtrusive JavaScript

Monday, August 1st, 2005

Nifty JavaScript from ParticleTree that appends a little image to a link if it links to a specific document or site (ie: pdf, doc, xls, amazon, etc).

Platypus

Thursday, June 2nd, 2005

Take greasemonkey to the next level with platypus. From the site: Platypus is a Firefox extension which lets you modify a Web page from your browser -- "What You See Is What You Get" -- and then save those changes as a Greasemonkey script so that they'll be repeated the next ...

Cool greasemonkey scripts that I am using

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

As I find start to use new ones, I'll post them here MBTA on Google Maps (info) Autosave Gmail (info) Gmail Delete Button Click on mailto link - open Gmail Compose message Google Fool (info - you have to read this first) MSDN Language Filter (info) Also, if you want to know more about developing on greasemonkey, ...

Add persistent searches to Gmail with greasemonkey

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005

See this blog post from persistent.info. It is a greasemonkey script that adds the ability to define and save persisten searches. Saved searches show up in a little orange box along the left side of the screen. Uses cookies to track the "contents" of the searches and might need some page ...