$.repo and $.getScriptsSee the code. jQuery plugin to allow using cdn.rawgit.com to get the latest commit of a github repo github won't let you hotlink to their site directly; raw.githubusercontent.com sends its content with a X-Content-Type-Options:nosniff header, so modern browsers won't accept it as javascript. http://rawgit.com gets around that by pulling the raw file and re-serving it […]
flexcalTwo new additions to flexcal, which is now at version 2.2. See the code and a demo, that uses my new github pages. Mouse Wheel The calendar now responds to wheel events, changing the month with scroll up/down and changing the calendar tab with scroll left/right. I initially tried to throttle it since my trackpad […]
I'm sure there must be an easier way to run a program from PowerShell, but I haven't found anything simpler than & "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++\notepad++.exe" with the ampersand and the full path. I could add "C:\Program Files (x86)\Notepad++" to $env:PATH, but I'd still have to type notepad++.exe file. I wanted some way to make a […]
$.fn.statusI've added the ability to use the console with my status plugin, so you can do $(console).status({ run: $.post(url, {data: data}).then( function() { return 'Data Saved' }, function() { return new Error('Data Not saved') } ) }); And the output will go to the console rather than to an element on the page. For simple […]
$.fn.sendkeysSee the demo. See the source code, which depends on bililiteRange. Modern browsers won't let synthetic events (triggered with dispatchEvent) execute their default actions (meaning the action that would occur if the event was triggered by a user action). The Event object has a read-only field called isTrusted that is false for anything but unmodified […]
bililiteRange.sendkeysbililiteRange.text() works well to insert text into ranges, but I wanted to be able to simulate other keys, ala Microsoft's SendKeys. bililiteRange.sendkeys() does exactly that. It basically executes text(string, 'end') but interprets any text between braces ('{key}') as a command representing a special key. For security reasons, the browser won't let you do anything outside […]
$.keymapDownload the code. See the demo. See the hotkeys demo. Dealing with keydown events is a pain, since the event object has always encoded the key as an arbitrary numeric code, so any program that deals with key-related events has something like: var charcodes = { 32 : ' ', 8 : 'Backspace', 20 : […]
We love playing Scribblish. It's like the old Telephone game but with pictures, with players alternating writing captions for pictures and drawing pictures for the captions. It's most fun as a non-competitive party game, just reading the cartoons at the end of each round. It's useful as well: we taught it to my daughter's then-boyfriend […]
I wanted to run some of my old games (notably Riven) on my shiny new Windows 8.1 machine, but it wouldn't even try to install on a 64-bit operating system. Luckily, Oracle offers VirtualBox to run virtual machines, and Microsoft offers a Windows XP virtual hard drive (.vhd file) through its Windows XP mode for […]
gitNow that I have my computer working, I want to get back at my github repositories. I could type my password with every push, but it's easier to use SSH with a key pair. Since I'm using Putty for shell access, I use Puttygen that comes with it. The problem is that Puttygen's format is […]
