Here’s a novel idea (stolen from AppDen‘s Twitter feed fetch class) – extend the mootools-more’s JSONP class and setup some quick and easy geolocation lookups through pidgets.com and YQL (yahoo query language). Here they are, 3 mini classes. First one uses the client’s IP address (or an optional ip supplied by options) to fetch geolocation info from http://geoip.pidgets.com/. The second… Read more →
This is not a tool you can rely on for customer-facing development, but I found it invaluable nevertheless. jsPrintSetup is a small fireFox add-on that hands you a controlling object in javascript. You get FULL access to any print-related function you could think of: list printers, select default printers, print silently, control spool, headers… There’s just too much to mention…. Read more →
I was browsing around the internet and came across Iconza by turbomilk. As it seemed rather nice and my Framework Detector Firefox add-on sniffed out mootools, I had a look at the source. It uses what looks like a colour picker plugin for mootools called mooRainbow. Nice to have in your toolkit, you never know. Iconza’s png trickery is not… Read more →
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