Showing posts with label bored. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bored. Show all posts
Most people that read my blog probably know that I'm frequent poster on the APEX OTN Forum.
And many time my posts contain html,css,javascript code.
And then I need to my escape my html,css,javascript code wrap it in [code]..[/code] blocks blah blah blah. So after about the 1800th time of having to do that I figured there has to be a better way.
Then I remembered Patrick Wolf's Greasemonkey APEX addon and the fact that he always a nice signature in his postings and I figured hey I bet he does that with Greasemonkey to.
And being the wicked fast person I am , with almost not moral problems about borrowing inspiration from someone else's good idea ;) , I figured hey I'll build something like that.... BUT!! I'll add buttons to do the things I need.
So now you get this otn_forum.user.js and you can see the source here.
It adds a couple buttons for quick formating and escaping html and also adds some default text for your posting.
Which is pretty easy to customize just open up the file before you load it and edit the last couple lines.
It's a very simple script I know and I'll be adding some more buttons and features but truthfully for me that's what I needed, easy and to the point.
If you have anything you want specifically add drop a line, I'll try and get it in. Or take a look at the documentation have a go at it yourself , it's surprisingly funner than it looks.
p.s vi in the house!
doh! had to do small edit now it works right 11:30pm
And many time my posts contain html,css,javascript code.
And then I need to my escape my html,css,javascript code wrap it in [code]..[/code] blocks blah blah blah. So after about the 1800th time of having to do that I figured there has to be a better way.
Then I remembered Patrick Wolf's Greasemonkey APEX addon and the fact that he always a nice signature in his postings and I figured hey I bet he does that with Greasemonkey to.
And being the wicked fast person I am , with almost not moral problems about borrowing inspiration from someone else's good idea ;) , I figured hey I'll build something like that.... BUT!! I'll add buttons to do the things I need.
So now you get this otn_forum.user.js and you can see the source here.
It adds a couple buttons for quick formating and escaping html and also adds some default text for your posting.
Which is pretty easy to customize just open up the file before you load it and edit the last couple lines.
It's a very simple script I know and I'll be adding some more buttons and features but truthfully for me that's what I needed, easy and to the point.
If you have anything you want specifically add drop a line, I'll try and get it in. Or take a look at the documentation have a go at it yourself , it's surprisingly funner than it looks.
p.s vi in the house!
doh! had to do small edit now it works right 11:30pm
Some of the names have been changed to protect the innocent.
It's been a long day.
Plus I'm trying out the ScribeFire addon for Firefox to post to Blogger, and I have to admit I like how it works it is very convenient.
(02:15:05 PM) tm: btw, there was a post on digg about this web calendar: http://30boxes.com
(02:15:17 PM) tm: you might want to give it a try
(02:15:19 PM) tm: very slick
(02:15:29 PM) me: ha
(02:15:47 PM) me: another web 2.0 social site going to change my life
(02:15:56 PM) tm: ehhh
(02:15:59 PM) tm: not so social
(02:16:03 PM) me: you know what web 2.0 is missing
(02:16:06 PM) tm: but VERY useful
(02:16:11 PM) me: a online dog food store
(02:16:15 PM) me: oh wait
(02:16:24 PM) me: we already tried that one ;)
It's been a long day.
Plus I'm trying out the ScribeFire addon for Firefox to post to Blogger, and I have to admit I like how it works it is very convenient.
