Archive: June 2005

Microsofties Don’t Get It

ClickOnce has already proved itself to be a failure and I’m pretty sure Avalon will not find its place to be on the web. At least Dare Obasanjo seems to get it.

Updated Live Search

I took the time to update the Google Live Search Greasemonkey script a bit to make it a bit more defensive. While I was messing with I also added code to update the links above the search field to go to the search terms that the last result used (instead of the search term the ...

My Daily Startup

Since Foo did it and to prevent the rumours of my death to spread any further I’m gonna do the same thing. These are the programs I usually launch when I start one of my computers: Trillian Pro – sometimes it is nice to pay a little Dear Park alpha or Firefox depending on what ...

Google Live Search

This is a script for Greasemonkey that modifies the Google search page to make the results show up as you type. Steps to install: Install Greasemonkey Once that is done you can right click the following link and select Install User Script…: googlelivesearch.user.js The Details When the user types in the search field the browser ...

Object.prototype is verboten

It is not seldom that you see people messing with Object.prototype. This is very bad because it breaks the object-as-hash-tables feature in javascript. Basically, the following is a very common scenario: var obj = {a: "A", b: "B", c: "C", d: "D"}; for (var key in obj) { doSomething(key, obj[key], obj); } if ("b" in ...

Array Extras

With the upcoming Firefox 1.1 release (and other browsers based on Gecko 1.8) things are starting to move in javascript land. During the early years of javascript a lot happend but then came the ambitious plans ofJS2 and the improvements to js just kind of died away for no reason. It seems Mozilla is finally ...

Visual C# Express Sucks

Visual C# Express 2005 Express Edition Beta 2 is actually a quite nice IDE for developing C# applications. It has a lot of features that make navigating and figuring out the framework a breeze. The reason I think it sucks is the following: I had developed an application for a few hours and to be ...