Working with Parsedown, I want to string manipulation but only in certain parts. For instance, on text not in HTML tags or not in quotes. The right way to do that is with a real parser. The easy way is by removing the unwanted strings, replacing them with a marker that won't come up in […]
I've been spending all my intellectual free time on working on my Kavanot site, so I haven't been doing any independent programming. But that site uses raw HTML, which is a pain to type. So I decided to start using Markdown to make writing easier. After a little trial and error, I decided to use […]
(It's been almost a year since I've posted. My intellectual life is busy with other things) I use H&R Block software to prepare my taxes and have been generally very happy, but this year it would not update the program after January 1. Using the automatic update downloaded the updater but it silently failed. Manually […]
Nearly Free Speech has been a great hosting service, and they upgrade the stack consistently, which usually doesn't cause problems. But with the most recent upgrade, I started getting the above error. Looks like they turned on compression at the server level, so doing it on each page is redundant. Evidently they announced it on […]
I've put an Amazon Wishlist Widget for WordPress on my github site, that uses the techniques described before. You can see it running on the sidebar here.
I figured out how to get all the pages from screen-scraping the Amazon wish list. Basically, look for the "Next" button (it's in a <li class=a-last> element). If that element is present, look for the next page. function getwishlistitems ($listID, $page=1){ // ignore parsing warnings $wishlistdom = new DOMDocument(); @$wishlistdom->loadHTMLFile("http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/$listID?disableNav=1&page=$page"); $wishlistxpath = new DOMXPath ($wishlistdom); […]
Amazon long ago elminated its API for getting wishlists. 4 years ago I made a screen-scraping WordPress widget to display my wishlist. Unfortunately, as happens with screen-scraping, Amazon changed their format and URL's. And now I can't seem to get the ItemLookup API to work either. doitlikejustin has a vanilla PHP wishlist scraper, but PHP […]
It's been almost a year since I last posted. I'm still programming, but it's mostly visible on github, especially my trying to help with jquery/globalize by implementing nongregorian calendars. I finally solved a bug that was, um, bugging me. In order to test my Julian Day routines, I needed to create a javascript Date at […]
flexcalAfter some prompting by those actually using it, I paid more attention to my flexcal date picker plugin, adding features like buttons, drop-down menus and formatted dates. The documentation is on my github pages at github.bililite.com/flexcal, and the code is on github at github.com/dwachss/flexcal. All other posts about it are obsolete. The current stable version […]
jQuery's animate is useful for animating CSS properties, but there are times that you want to take advantage of the bookkeeping that jQuery provides to animate, with easing functions etc., but not to change an animatable property. The flip plugin for Mike Alsup's cycle2 has a clever hack to animate some otherwise unused property instead: […]
