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12-Apr-2011 01:02:14 pm

On the theme of things which I am shocked have not already been created, I lately took it upon myself to write an application for automatically fixing Microsoft "Smart Quotes". This utility sits in your system tray and replaces these troublesome characters (‘ ” … etc) with a more web-appropriate version before they get anywhere near your webpages.

It is configurable in various ways and should be an invaluable timesaver for any publisher, copywriter, web developer or person working with internet content. More information can be found here.

26-Sep-2010 03:59:18 pm

TextSelector is a lightweight JavaScript class for handling text selections. It retrieves the highlighted text on the page reliably and independently of the document area and browser.

Which is to say, it will behave properly no matter what browser you are in, and no matter whether you have normal text on the page selected or some input inside a text field highlighted. I found it odd that there was nothing like this out there, so here it is (:
The class is written in pure JavaScript, so you don't need any external dependencies to use it.

09-Sep-2008 04:22:52 pm

Released - pDebug : Public Alpha 3.0.07
A lightweight, powerful and robust debugging platform for PHP5

Source files are on github

Have at it, send me your results! :D

27-Jun-2008 09:37:15 pm

If you're a cool web user you might be interested in this: I came across a GreaseMonkey script the other day by Josh Kinberg which makes it easy to download YouTube videos.

Pretty awesome but it seems broken now, either with Firefox 3 incompatibilities of some sort or a change to YouTube's page layout (could be both - different rendering sent to the new browser..)

Anyway, I made some minor edits to it to make it compatible with whatever's causing this problem and added a link to the swf url, which you should be able to use if your forum supports (or allows) [flash] tags.

Install here

[Edit_080709]
If you happen to be (or know someone who is) a forum admin, you can define your own BBtag like so (the example is for PHPbb but I'm sure an equivalent can be reproduced in any forum that supports custom BBcodes):
[fl]{URL}[/fl]
  Becomes:
<embed src="{URL}" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344">

23-Dec-2007 07:33:58 pm

Finally got the time to crack open the Unreal Tournament 3 editor and ported a little mutator that I really enjoyed playing with in UT2004.

ShockJump Instagib is pretty quick and rough around the edges, but it lets you do 'rocket jumps' with the Instagib Rifle and that's all it really needs right now.