The Five Most Precious Firefox Extensions for Web Developer
I develop web applications and test them in Firefox, for Firefox provides many extensions that are not only useful, but sometimes vital to the completion of my projects. Over a period of time, I have been continuously evaluating different Firefox extensions in attempting to sort out the valuable ones (for web development). At last, I come up with these five.
YUI Based Lightbox – Final
My previous YUI implementation of the lightbox, which was released for beta evaluation, now has nearly gone gold. This page will be devoted for upcoming updates and bug fixes. So if you've found any bugs, feel free to report them in the comment section of this post.
Also, I would like to thank many who reported bugs and gave feedbacks after the release of previous image lightbox. As many have requested, I implemented navigation for the new lightbox. In addition to the navigation, numerous new features have been added and bugs have been fixed.
Source Line of Code Counter
Since I couldn't find a SLOC (source line of code) counter that satisfies me, I decided to write one. This SLOC counter equipped with a file system browser which is very handy for precisely defining inclusion and exclusion of files/directories. Besides that, the SLOC counter supports pattern matching for file inclusion and exclusion, and directory inclusion using regular expression. The usage section of this post has a detailed list on how to use pattern match.
This LOC counter is written in Visual C# 2005. That means you need Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0 to run this program. You can download a free copy of .NET Framework from here.
A Compilation of YUI Callback
I have been coding JavaScript with YUI for quite a while now. Still, I am consistently confused by various callback functions in YUI. The thing that troubled me the most was the parameters those callback functions take. The API documentation does not provide any information about this. For example, if you go to YAHOO.util.Event, under addListener method, the description for parameter fn as follow: <Function> The method the event invokes.
Yes, it's a straightforward description, but it doesn't help too much. What I really need is the signature of this callback function. For the purpose of my own use, and to benefit the community, I decided to make a compilation of callbacks in YUI.
The Missing Parameter of jQuery.post
When coding JavaScript that requires a lot of DOM manipulations, jQuery no doubt is my favorite JavaScript framework. Surprisingly, with file size of 26KB (packed distribution), it supports Ajax along with many other handy features.
If you've previously used jQuery's Ajax API, you probably noticed that there's a jQuery.getJSON() function call that grabs the server response from a given URL and parses it into a JSON object. However, you couldn't find the corresponding method from online documentation for post request, namely jQuery.postJSON.
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