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Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one
click

Edit the Scripts menu scripts with one
click 01/05/2005 10:36 PM
FunkDaddy: "I wanted to look at the code of an AppleScript in the Scripts Menu. Normally, I would have to do this by navigating to the script in the Finder and opening it in Script Editor. But I took a wild guess and Option-clicked on the script in the menu, and it opened in Script Editor directly! This makes tweaking my frequently-used scripts really easy."

Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts

Replacing Perl Scripts with PHP Scripts 11/26/2002 05:12 AM
With the introduction of version 4.2, PHP has started supporting a new SAPI (Server Application Programming Interface) called CLI (Command Line Interface). This facility was introduced to help developers create small shell applications (scripts) with PHP. So, now you can kiss Perl goodbye forever. -- Jayesh Jain

Hear hear. Thanks to my influence, other developers at Natsoft are using PHP for their batch scripts too. Hmm maybe it is because they report to me...

"zeldman.bang"

Use folder action scripts on a shell
scripts folder

Use folder action scripts on a shell
scripts folder 05/03/2004 10:44 AM
Recently I purchase a book called "Wicked Cool Shell Scripts" by Dave Taylor, and it is full of exactly that, cool shell scripts. Having not done a whole lot of shell scripting before, I thought it would be good to pick it up...

Google slashes IPO

Google slashes IPO 08/18/2004 08:52 AM
USA Today Aug 18 2004 1:09PM GMT

Google slashes IPO value

Google slashes IPO value 08/18/2004 06:58 AM
The Register Aug 18 2004 11:38AM GMT

EDS slashes dividend

EDS slashes dividend 07/28/2004 04:12 AM
Shareholders rethink holiday plans

AMD slashes Opteron prices by up to 40%.

AMD slashes Opteron prices by up to 40%. 10/28/2003 11:06 PM
The Register: AMD slashes Opteron prices by up to 40%. Except for the one I bought, so I don't have to curse them.

Google Slashes IPO Range

Google Slashes IPO Range 08/18/2004 10:01 PM
iMedia Connection Aug 19 2004 2:22AM GMT

Google Slashes IPO price

Google Slashes IPO price 08/18/2004 08:54 AM

ABN Amro slashes IT workforce

ABN Amro slashes IT workforce 12/22/2004 01:11 AM
One in four techies to lose jobs

Iomega slashes workforce by 25%

Iomega slashes workforce by 25% 09/24/2004 07:49 AM
Storage solutions provider Iomega is laying off 145 staff, representing one quarter of its workforce, reports The Register...

AT&T slashes Net-phoning prices

AT&T slashes Net-phoning prices 06/15/2004 09:16 PM
CallVantage is now $5 a month cheaper--a mere two months after the service was introduced.

Intel slashes forecasts

Intel slashes forecasts 09/02/2004 05:24 PM
CNN Sep 2 2004 9:27PM GMT

Google slashes float

Google slashes float 08/18/2004 08:24 PM
Telegraph Aug 19 2004 0:36AM GMT

Dell UK slashes Dimension to just
£53,000

Dell UK slashes Dimension to just
£53,000 06/21/2004 10:45 AM
A 'build-your-own' online bargain

AMD slashes Opteron prices

AMD slashes Opteron prices 05/07/2004 06:18 AM
The Register May 7 2004 10:41AM GMT

MS slashes prices on peripherals

MS slashes prices on peripherals 08/11/2004 08:12 AM
TechTree Aug 11 2004 12:20PM GMT

IBM slashes price of Red Hat on Power
servers

IBM slashes price of Red Hat on Power
servers 04/30/2004 03:25 AM
ZDNet UK Apr 30 2004 7:53AM GMT

Asda slashes 3p from fuel prices

Asda slashes 3p from fuel prices 01/04/2005 05:27 PM
Supermarket group Asda slashes 3p from petrol prices due to "over-supply" in the market, prompting a price cut pledge from Tesco.

PayPal Slashes Micropayments Fees

PayPal Slashes Micropayments Fees 12/09/2003 07:18 AM
SiliconValley.Internet.com Dec 9 2003 6:37AM ET

MTNL Slashes Dial-up Charges

MTNL Slashes Dial-up Charges 12/27/2004 08:51 AM
TechTree Dec 27 2004 11:53AM GMT

Oracle slashes its bid for PeopleSoft by
20% (SiliconValley.com)

Oracle slashes its bid for PeopleSoft by
20% (SiliconValley.com) 05/15/2004 05:55 AM
SiliconValley.com - Oracle sliced its bid for PeopleSoft on Friday by almost 20 percent to $7.7 billion, following drops in stock prices for both companies since the start of this year.

Man Slashes 15 Children, Kills 1 in
China (AP)

Man Slashes 15 Children, Kills 1 in
China (AP) 08/04/2004 07:45 AM
AP - A gatekeeper at a Beijing kindergarten slashed 15 students and three teachers with a kitchen knife Wednesday, killing one child and leaving others terrified and covered in blood, police and news reports said.

RealNetworks slashes song prices

RealNetworks slashes song prices 08/16/2004 11:42 PM
Company launches 49-cent song downloads, marketing campaign aimed at music consumers' "choice."

Cox turns up the speed, slashes prices

Cox turns up the speed, slashes prices 08/10/2004 04:04 PM
At the moment, this puts Cox at the top of the outgoing bandwidth chart among major cable companies, but in the end it's not nearly as exciting as it should be because the cable companies barely compete.

Uni Slashes Desktop Support Demands

Uni Slashes Desktop Support Demands 02/11/2004 05:44 PM
When Edith Cowan University's communications school switched to Mac OS X for its desktop and server hardware system support demands fell. By Rodney Gedda (Computerworld via MyAppleMenu)

Oracle slashes PeopleSoft offer

Oracle slashes PeopleSoft offer 05/17/2004 04:18 AM
20 per cent off...

Sun Launches New Platforms, Slashes
Prices

Sun Launches New Platforms, Slashes
Prices 03/20/2003 01:05 PM
In a two-pronged initiative, Sun Microsystems is launching new managed computing platforms and slashing prices of its mid-range and high-end server systems. With these moves, Sun is seeking to modify its image as an elite provider of proprietary systems.

Intel slashes sales forecasts

Intel slashes sales forecasts 09/02/2004 05:24 PM
CNN Sep 2 2004 9:26PM GMT

Vonage slashes price of Net telephony
kit

Vonage slashes price of Net telephony
kit 06/02/2004 06:12 PM

R&SA slashes training but boosts
delivery

R&SA slashes training but boosts
delivery 11/05/2003 06:25 AM
vnunet.com Nov 5 2003 5:34AM ET

Sun slashes Solaris x86 price for big
buyers

Sun slashes Solaris x86 price for big
buyers 04/20/2004 03:02 AM
Once dead OS now alive and cheap

Amstrad slashes cost of E3 e-mailer

Amstrad slashes cost of E3 e-mailer 03/23/2005 07:33 AM
2 - 4 - 1

Google Slashes Size and Cost Of Its IPO

Google Slashes Size and Cost Of Its IPO 08/18/2004 12:47 PM
WebProNews Aug 18 2004 5:33PM GMT

Google slashes IPO sale almost in half

Google slashes IPO sale almost in half 08/18/2004 04:58 PM

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Google slashed the value of its initial public offering almost in half Wednesday as a cool reception by investors, regulatory problems and a poor market for Internet stocks dogged the search engine giant on the eve of its market debut. Google cut the range of its IPO price to $85-$95 per share from $108-$135 per share and the number of shares that shareholders plan to sell to 5.5 million from almost 12 million. The cuts…

Trafford slashes call costs

Trafford slashes call costs 06/08/2004 08:53 AM
Manchester Online Jun 8 2004 1:28PM GMT

Vivendi Slashes Loss in First Quarter
(AP)

Vivendi Slashes Loss in First Quarter
(AP) 05/27/2004 09:14 AM
AP - Vivendi Universal slashed its loss in the first quarter compared with a year ago, largely due to improved earnings from its music, entertainment and mobile phone operations.

Moody's slashes EDS debt to junk

Moody's slashes EDS debt to junk 07/15/2004 08:13 PM
CNET Jul 16 2004 0:30AM GMT

Vodafone slashes IT contractor rates

Vodafone slashes IT contractor rates 11/03/2003 10:01 AM
Lops off 10 per cent
Grok Description matches for Scripts and Slashes
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Firefox JavaScript security problem!

Firefox JavaScript security problem! 04/05/2005 05:22 PM
TechSpot Apr 5 2005 9:44PM GMT

Firefox JavaScript Engine Flaw Flagged

Firefox JavaScript Engine Flaw Flagged 04/04/2005 11:57 PM
The vulnerability carries a "moderately critical" rating and could lead to the disclosure of sensitive information.

Firefox Patch on the Way for JavaScript
Engine Flaw

Firefox Patch on the Way for JavaScript
Engine Flaw 04/08/2005 08:17 PM
The Mozilla Foundation plans to ship Firefox 1.0.3 as early as this weekend to correct an information disclosure vulnerability.

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border="0">

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Klings's Korollaries 

Suits and Geeks is Arnold Kling's latest, and a complement to World of Ends.

Arnold lists Five Clues for Geeks:

Intermediaries add value Property is not evil Computer animation is not a killer application Bashing Microsoft does not make you smart Markets are not exploitative

Lots to talk about there.

A question 

So I've been talking to some companies here in Toronto, and a question has comed up for which I don't have a ready answer:

What companies blog?

Specifically, what companies maintain corporate blogs, either as home pages or as main features of their Web sites? I'm not in the best position to check, but maybe ya'll can help a little. It would be a good list to come up with in any case (if there isn't one already).

[Later...] Some answers have been coming in:

Macromedia has a bunch (see the list on the left) of blogging executives (e.g. Kevin Lynch, who writes helpfully about working at the company, among other things). Its site also has lots of product forums.

Jupiter Research, which links every analyst's weblog (there are eleven) from the home page. Jupiter also hosts ClickZ Weblog Business Strategies, a conference held in Boston this June. Dave, Davi d and other leading local bloggers will speak there. (How about more links in the brochure pages, hmm?)

Groove (though Ray seems to be awol... hope he gets back into the groove, pun intended).

Trellis (Dan blogs).

Starpoint (the home page is a blog).

Immunexa, which hasn't had a post since last November.

Still a pretty short list.

Other good news 

When I got back to my hotel room last night, the bellman had just deliverd my missing bag. It had been retained by Canadian Customs and delivered, oddly, by Fedex.

And the laptop has only crashed once this morning. I still miss the days when I could open a shell, run an uptime command and see that it's been going for weeks without a reboot. But the way things have been going lately, ten minutes is a miracle I can put to good use.

Happy Birthday, Mom! 

My mother is 90 years young today. She was born on March 13, 1913 into a Swedish family on the North Dakota prairie during the reign of Taft the Large.

Lots of people have issues with their mothers. I'm not one of them. When I woke up a few minutes ago, the first song in my mind was Paul Simon's Loves me Like a Rock. The second was Greg Brown's Cheapest Kind, which I heard once on A Prairie Home Companion. The chorus has stuck in my mind ever since:

But the love, the love, the love It was not the cheapest kind It was rich as, rich as rich as, rich as Any you could ever find

Mom has always been, and contintues to be, the richest source of love I have ever known. She's a human pipeline, running straight from God.

She's also smart as a whip, funny as a tickle and uncomplicated as a bowling ball. Her laugh can lift the darkest spirit.

As a kid she was so smart they put her ahead one grade. Friends called her "The Walking Dictionary." A couple years ago she heard me mention Google, and said "A Googol is an infinitely large number." That wasn't exactly right (it's a one followed by a hundred zeroes), but close enough. When my sister and I were kids she taught school (mostly third grade) in Maywood, New Jersey, our home town. She started teaching when she was eighteen in a one-room schoolhouse in North Dakota. Between those years she lived an adventurous life. Met my father (another adventurer) in Alaska during World War II.

We'll be throwing her a big party in North Carolina in a couple of weeks. Can't wait to be there.

[Later...] Mom just told me on the phone that she wasn't put ahead a grade, but rather put in first grade at age five. "My mother couldn't stand having me at home any more. I was too smart. But so were a bunch of other kids." Her best friend, Agatha, was one of those kids. They're still in touch. Mom has always called Agatha by her nickname, which is (no kidding) "Boogie."

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width="6" border="0">

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Firefox Patch on the Way for JavaScript
Engine Flaw (Ziff Davis)

Firefox Patch on the Way for JavaScript
Engine Flaw (Ziff Davis) 04/08/2005 08:35 PM
Ziff Davis - The Mozilla Foundation plans to ship Firefox 1.0.3 as early as this weekend to correct an information disclosure vulnerability.

Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Engine
Information Disclosure Vulnerability

Mozilla Firefox JavaScript Engine
Information Disclosure Vulnerability 04/05/2005 01:58 AM
Secunia Advisory: SA14820 Critical: Moderately critical Impact: Exposure of system information, Exposure of sensitive information Where: From remote Solution Status: Unpatched Software: Mozilla Firefox 0.x, Mozilla Firefox 1.x A vulnerability has been discovered in Mozilla Firefox, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information. The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the JavaScript engine, as a “lambda” replace exposes arbitrary amounts of heap memory after the end…

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Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box

Access 90 Search Engines’ Results With
Firefox’s Search Box 03/17/2005 03:02 AM
TurboScout.com launches a Firefox extension which empowers over 27 million Firefox users to access original results from more than 90 search engines with just a click. [PRWEB Mar 17, 2005]

FireFox Find In Page Now Searches
Textboxes and Textareas

FireFox Find In Page Now Searches
Textboxes and Textareas 04/16/2004 07:37 PM
The excellent Burning Edge, which reports bug-fixes and continued regressions in Firefox daily builds (for all platforms) is reporting that the trunk build for April 16th contains searching within text forms. It is the one feature that IE has that I've longed for in Firefox, and finally it's here. That's one fewer reason to use IE, which I only use from time to time to see how the other 85% of the web is living.

Dodging Internet e-mail bullets

Dodging Internet e-mail bullets 11/04/2003 04:56 PM
Washington Times Nov 4 2003 3:25PM ET

Turn Any <textarea> into a WYSIWYG
editor

Turn Any <textarea> into a WYSIWYG
editor 03/13/2003 10:14 AM
Interactivetools.com has released an alpha version of their free htmlArea product which is now Mozilla compatible. If you're using Mozilla 1.3beta+, you can see a demo of it here. You need Mozilla 1.3 Beta for this to work. It will not work in earlier mozilla version. It doesn't work in...

htmlArea - Turn any textarea tag into a
WYSIWYG editor

htmlArea - Turn any textarea tag into a
WYSIWYG editor 03/11/2003 01:22 AM
Unlike other such editors, it is free (BSD license). Works with IE 5.5 or later. And the next version will be Mozilla 1.3 compatible!

Thx to Marco for the link.

"zeldman.nubet"

Google Search Enhanced for Firefox

Google Search Enhanced for Firefox 03/31/2005 03:42 AM

Firefox Search Plugin for Sitepoint

Firefox Search Plugin for Sitepoint 06/04/2004 07:06 PM
SitePoint, Australia - 8 hours ago ... search/search.php" >. DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> Install Sitepoint Search Plugin. Put that somewhere ...

Google enhances search for Firefox users

Google enhances search for Firefox users 03/31/2005 02:20 PM
New feature lets Firefox users obtain search results more quickly--but some worry they'll be sent content they don't want.

New Technorati search Firefox plug-in
from ratherbiased.com

New Technorati search Firefox plug-in
from ratherbiased.com 02/01/2005 08:50 PM
Neat! Shows that the barriers to becoming a programmer are getting lower and lower. Here's a firefox plugin from the folks at ratherbiased.com. Great job guys! This gets me thinking I need to write more stuff about all the...

Groowe Search Toolbar for Mozilla
Firefox Released

Groowe Search Toolbar for Mozilla
Firefox Released 04/17/2005 03:02 PM

Copernic Desktop Search 1.2 Supports
Mozilla Firefox

Copernic Desktop Search 1.2 Supports
Mozilla Firefox 12/17/2004 06:35 PM

'Butler' enhances Google search results
in Firefox

'Butler' enhances Google search results
in Firefox 03/24/2005 08:43 AM
removing ads from google pages .. mark pilgrim zeigt wie es geht .. Butler [dive into mark] .. seines User Scripts .. Butler 0.1 .. Butler

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Professional JavaScript for Web
Developers: JavaScript in the Browser,
Pt. 1

Professional JavaScript for Web
Developers: JavaScript in the Browser,
Pt. 1 06/22/2005 02:51 AM
Web browsers have come a long way over the years and can now handle a variety of file formats, not just conventional HTML. Here, you'll learn how JavaScript fits into HTML, other languages, and some basic concepts of the Browser Object Model (BOM). By WROX Press. 0620

Executing JavaScript on page load

Executing JavaScript on page load 05/26/2004 01:27 AM

Peter-Paul Koch recently wrote:

In my opinion, recent advances in JavaScript theory call for the removal of the event handlers that some Web developers-and all WYSIWYG editors-deploy in large masses in their XHTML files, where they don’t belong.

PPK is talking about inline event attributes such as the infamous onclick="" and onmouseover="" which have infested our HTML ever since Netscape introduced JavaScript back in version 2.0 of their browser. The alternative to these handlers is to add event handlers to elements after the document has loaded. PPK has detailed coverage of the various ways of doing this on his QuirksMode site.

In my work with unobtrusive JavaScript, I've found that by far the most common action I take is "registering" a script to be executed once the page has finished loading. There are a number of ways of doing this, which I described in my article E nhancing Structural Markup with JavaScript. Unfortunately, none of them are perfect if you wish to write truly reusable scripts.

For a script (such as my blockquote citations script discussed in the article) to be properly reusable, it needs to behave nicely in the presence of other scripts. This means that assigning a callback function directly to the window.onload handler is out of the question as doing so will over-ride previously assigned callbacks from other scripts. The correct way of adding a handler to an event without over-riding other handlers is to use modern event attachment method, which sadly differ between IE/Windows and other browsers. Scott Andrew's addEvent function handles the differences for you but comes with one major and rarely discussed drawback: it fails silently in IE5/Mac. If you care about the many Mac users still on OS9, you need to support that browser.

Anyway, I believe I've found a solution. Check this out:

function addLoadEvent(func) {
  var oldonload = window.onload;
  if (typeof window.onload != 'function') {
    window.onload = func;
  } else {
    window.onload = function() {
      oldonload();
      func();
    }
  }
}

addLoadEvent(nameOfSomeFunctionToRunOnPageLoad);
addLoadEvent(function() {
  /* more code to run on page load */ 
});

The addLoadEvent function takes as an argument another function which should be executed once the page has loaded. Unlike assigning directly to window.onload, the function adds the event in such a way that any previously added onload functions will be executed first.

The way this works is relatively simple: if window.onload has not already been assigned a function, the function passed to addLoadEvent is simply assigned to window.onload. If window.onload has already been set, a brand new function is created which first calls the original onload handler, then calls the new handler afterwards.

addLoadEvent has one very important property: it will work even if something has previously been assigned to window.onload without using addLoadEvent itself. This makes it ideal for use in scripts that may be executing along side other scripts that have already been registered to execute once the page has loaded.

I've tested the above code successfully on IE 5, 5.5 and 6 for Windows; IE 5 and Safari for Mac; Opera 7.5 and FireFox on Mac (which should mean it works with those browsers on Windows as well). Opera 6 for Mac failed the test but has poor JavaScript support anyway and is hopefully becoming more and more rare now that Opera 7 has matured.

I've created a test page for the function. I'd be interested to here any bug reports from browsers I haven't covered.

I'm still considering ways in which this technique could be extended to work for generic events rather than just page loads. The challenge there would be to ensure that information about the event itself was passed to the event handlers in a consistent manner. For page load events this isn't an issue as the event object does not contain any valuable information.

Update: I've written the new technique up on my SitePoint blog and incorporated an explanation of closures and how they are used to preserve any previously assigned onload handlers.

HTML-Tooltip-Javascript-0.03

HTML-Tooltip-Javascript-0.03 09/07/2004 01:29 AM

HTML-Tooltip-Javascript-0.01

HTML-Tooltip-Javascript-0.01 06/20/2004 11:55 PM

Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search -
Web Page Copyright - Find Site Copies

Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search -
Web Page Copyright - Find Site Copies 07/12/2004 06:00 AM
Copyscape - Website Plagiarism Search - Web Page Copyright - Find Site Copies
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Copyscape finds copies of your content on the Web. You can use Copyscape to identify sites that have copied your content without permission. Copyscape will also show you who is quoting your site. Simply type in the URL of your original content, and Copyscape does the rest. Copyscape is powered by Google Alert technology and uses the Google Web APIs. The widely acclaimed and award winning Google Alert service performs automatic daily Google searches to track your interests on the Web. Both Copyscape and Google Alert are provided by Indigo Stream Technologies Ltd and are not affiliated with Google. Copyscape is currently under beta release and works with Roman alphabet languages such as English, French and German. For now, it does not work with non-Roman languages such as Arabic, Hebrew or Russian. This has been added to the tool section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog and will be added to the search engine section of all the Internet MiniGuides 2004-05.

How to Create a JavaScript Web Page
Screen Saver

How to Create a JavaScript Web Page
Screen Saver 06/08/2004 12:29 PM
This JavaScript tutorial shows you how to implement a screen saver on a web page. It activates after a timeout, hides the current content of the page, creates an attractive display and more. By Guyon Roche. 0608

Webmaster (Perl/CGI, [X]HTML/CSS, some
JavaScript)

Webmaster (Perl/CGI, [X]HTML/CSS, some
JavaScript) 03/13/2003 10:21 AM
Washington University in Saint Louis - United States, MO, Saint Louis (2003-03-11)

HTML/Javascript/Visual Developer

HTML/Javascript/Visual Developer 05/23/2002 10:39 PM

How to detect long page loading times
with Javascript

How to detect long page loading times
with Javascript 12/02/2002 01:17 PM

Build Your Own Counter Widgets Using
JavaScript and HTML

Build Your Own Counter Widgets Using
JavaScript and HTML 08/22/2004 09:29 PM
WebmasterBase Aug 23 2004 1:36AM GMT

Perl/Javascript/HTML/Linux Web
Application Developer

Perl/Javascript/HTML/Linux Web
Application Developer 07/10/2004 07:45 PM
WireSpring Technologies, Inc. - United States, FL, Ft. Lauderdale (2004-07-10)

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