Posts filed under ‘plug’
Dodo’s Text Counter
May 30th, 2008
I needed a text counter at work. I searched around trying to find a jQuery plugin that fits the bill but I didn’t find anything. So I wrote one myself. Check it out 
It should be pretty flexible.
- Requires jQuery
- Define the maximum of characters the user may input
- May be applied to one or more input text or textarea fields
- Also disable the user from entering more characters after s/he reaches the maximum
The Storm Riders
May 11th, 2008
I was positively surprised to find the movie The Storm Riders on youtube decently dubbed. It’s one of the best Kung Fu movies I’ve seen. Real Hong Kong style. Way better than the new Forbidden Kingdom. No dis on Jet Li or Jackie Change but their new movie which I have seen in the theater is way too tuned down for the PG 13 rating and Americanized. I think it failed as a Kung Fu movie.
Plus The Storm Riders has way cuter actors like Ekin Chang and Aaron Kwok. Go watch it if you have nothing to do
The Storm Riders: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5 | Part 6 | Part 7 | Part 8 | Part 9
another reason why I love foobar2000
April 7th, 2008
I’ve been using foobar2000 as my media player for quite some time. It’s lightweight, highly customizable and uses little resource. Today while I was listening to some soothing music, I remembered back then I had a CD player that had a sleep function where you can set a timer to have it automatically turn off in 30 minutes. I thought would it be nice to do something like that with foobar since I leave my laptop on all the time by my bed. Sure enough, I didn’t have to look far, foobar’s got an awesome plugin foo_scheduler that does that and much more. It can perform many actions on a scheduled basis including, start, stop, lower volume, exit and even shutdown your computer. Alternatively this is the first thread I stumpled upon. It contains much valuable information for scheduling your computer.
twitter and pownce
March 26th, 2008
Thanks to daynah. I now belong to two more these online social networking sites: pownce & twitter.
Hey, you can watch a video on twitter even.
pownce is prettier and better written and gives you more control but less popular than twitter.
Talking about great tools for online stalking.
It’s scary but it makes me want to recheck my cell phone plan to see if it charges extra for texting.
Oh yea 8 featured firefox plugins for twitter. I installed twitter box/twitter notifier. It works well.
Dodo’s Picklist
March 23rd, 2008
I needed a pick list script at work. I looked around and found a jQuery plugin but it didn’t do all I wanted so I modified it. I thought I’d share my final results with you. I will contact the original author to see if he wants to include my changes to his version as well.
- Requires jQuery
- A modified version of jqmultiselects jQuery plugin
- Select options sorting code taken from select box manipulation
- Choose one or more to add or remove. Or add all or remove all at once
- Options are sorted to keep them in the same order
I got a flickr pro account
March 2nd, 2008
I purchased a flickr pro account for two years today. I never used flickr much but recently I revisited the falbum plugin for wordpress and was quite impressed not only with the plugin but the flickr API. I then revisited flickr to upload some of the baby photos for bubo and misty and found their interface had yet improved again. Their UI is very web 2.0 and works pretty much like a desktop app. Since I received some donation and advertising money online in my paypal recently, I wanted to use it up. After I uploaded some photos and found that a basic account is only allowed to have 3 sets, I’ve decided to go pro. It’s $47.99 for two years. For their service, I think it’s worth it. I need to spend some time to truly config and style falbum before I can integrate it with wordpress. I look forward to it.
Now let’s visit the sets that may bring a mom to tears. Bubo growing up and misty growing up.
new millennium with web 2.0
February 28th, 2008
After much anticipation, it’s finally here!!
I present you the completely rewritten New Millennium - New Millennium with web 2.0
It’s done in ajax with the help of jQuery. The idea is to create a site with no page refresh. Although it was fun, toward the end it was getting a bit tedious. I felt like doing a cross-stitch. Overall, I found ajax coding with no IDE support hard to debug. Some of the bugs eluded me quite a bit. I’ve done extensive testing on the final product. I hope it’s a good one.
It has been a very nice learning experience. I think jQuery is awesome but it’s a client side only library. So if I go try GWT and I should have a very good comparison.
jQuery and Tamper data rock
February 27th, 2008
I’ve been working on a UI design at work and some of the build in components have border=”1″ on their generated table code. To achieve a consistent look, I always want border=”0″ on the table so I can control the table border with CSS. There is no way as far as I know you can get rid of the table border with CSS once the source have border=”1″ in the table tag. But you can get rid of all table borders with this single line of code in jQuery:
$("table[border!='0']").attr("border", "0");
It completely rules!!
While debugging, I also found this awesome Firefox plugin: Tamper data. It lets you hijack a post/get http request on the fly so you can view and modify the submitted parameters. I used to use WebScarab. But this is so much lighter weight. Although it only works in Firefox while WebScarab, a proxy server, would work with any browsers.
lol json tutorial
February 17th, 2008
In my attempt to rewrite new millennium to make it 100% page refresh free, I’ve decided to learn more about json so I can use it with ajax. This is the first json tutorial that popped up in google. Hilarious stuff! I’m about 80% done with the rewrite of new millennium btw. So expected to see its new face on the web in a week or so. The process has been exciting and rewarding except I was pretty disgusted with my old code. Haha, live and learn
Oh yea, if you want to test the json you whipped together, you might find this validator useful. And also jQuery’s json lib is my friend. This is a good tutorial to generate json with PHP.
