awesome firefox extensions
any firefox extensions you love and wish to share? this web developer extension is awesome. I also installed the live http header viewer today. i love firefox 🙂
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SACK
a lightweight toolkit for ajax 🙂 like used in the xmlhttprequest chat. i might try it out when i write the sidebar for dmb.
firefox is a good js debugger
did you know firefox is a really good javascript debugger? yes i’m a bit slow. i thought firefox does not show js errors. in fact, if you type “javascript:” in the url, a js console will pop up. i’ve been using IE for js debugging for a long time. and it’s HORRIBLE.. the msg is… Continue reading firefox is a good js debugger
time left php function
just a simple function that returns how many days, hours, minutes and seconds are left given a timestamp i put together. kinda bored so sharing some code XP give either $time_left (time left in timestamp) or $endtime (an ending timestamp)
xmlhttprequest chat
i knew someone would get it to before me 🙂 as soon as i learned about xmlhttprequest, i thought it’s totally possible to write a chat script with it. well here it is! but it’s still very primitive.. maybe i will help develop it since i’m seriously considering using one for the new dmb 🙂
ebay tips
i’ve bought over 10 items from ebay. just recently i almost did not receive the product i paid for. so i talked to a ebay agent at live chat. unbelivably the agent was very competent and gave me quite some valuable information. give your seller a last chance in my case, i did not receive… Continue reading ebay tips
write better search engine in php
my limited mysql knowledge always produced inaccurate search results when i write the board search engine. i want to do better this time for the new board so i’m reading this and trying out mysql regular expression and full text search. i’m pretty excited. oh also, leslie reminded me. this perl style coding will save… Continue reading write better search engine in php
mysql date column type
i have to say that the decision to make the birthday column for members on the new board type DATE is a very good one. i never knew about all the magic mysql DATE type can do 🙂 but i still love the simplicity of time arithmetic unix timestamp provides.
javascript unescape like php function
when you start dealing with languages (i.e. chinese) that require 8 bit encoding or more, you will learn about all the wonderful jazz of utf8, unicode, ISO etc. i was looking all over for a php function that does what javascript unescape does. normally rawurldecode would work, but…
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