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Fixin’s for chili

I like Andrea Ercolino's chili syntax highlighter. I like it because it works well with jQuery, it allows me to use the HTML5 <code class="language-whatever"> notation for determining language, and I can highlight inline elements, not just pre elements. And Andrea has been very responsive to my questions. But it has an annoying habit of [...]
2011 01 13 Danny Javascript Comments (0)

Sitemeter Stats for non-HTML pages

Sitemeter works by inserting an image and iframe into your page, so that when the browser retrieves it, sitemeter can look at the referer and know what page was visited. But you can't include image links in an XML or GIF file, so I can't tell which of the bililite webservices are being visited. But [...]
2010 12 26 Danny PHP Comments (0)

Simple Sitemeter Widget

I just started using Sitemeter for tracking page visits (everyone seems to use Google Analytics, but I've used Sitemeter before and am satisfied with what I've got). Sort of depressing seeing a "1" for the visit count, but it's new as of today. Creating a widget to put in the sidebar was straightforward, since I've [...]
2010 12 26 Danny PHP Comments (0)

AVH Amazon Plugin, RIP

I've been using Peter van der Does's AVH Amazon plugin to display my Amazon wish list (more as an "about my interests" than a "buy things and make me money") and it's worked well, allowing a random selection of books I would like to be shown in the sidebar. Now it's dead, killed by Amazon's [...]
2010 10 31 Danny PHP Comments (0)

Hacked!

Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty. Last month, the Young Israel site was hacked and destroyed. A little talking with my ISP's tech support reminded me that I had an old version of WordPress on the site, in a folder called "wordpress," and that it contained a vulnerability that make the vandalism possible. When [...]
2009 11 17 Danny Comments (0)

Things I Learned About .htaccess

All I wanted was to get a better 404 page for the bililite.com site and to use mod_rewrite to standardize my pages. Of course, nothing is ever simple and mod_rewrite is voodoo. So it took a week of experimenting, pulling my hair and staring at a lot of 500 errors, but I think I got [...]
2009 07 27 Danny Comments (0)

Don’t Reinvent the Wheel

See the updated version. I needed a date/time picker and spend a couple of hours making a simple one: Obviously, I didn't spend a couple of hours putting this together. I wrote it quickly, then spend the hours getting it to work even remotely correctly in Internet Explorer.
2009 06 29 Danny Javascript Comments (2)

AVH Amazon Wishlist Plugin

Just added a new widget to the sidebar: the AVH Amazon Wishlist. It randomly picks items from my Amazon wishlist. Anyone reading this can feel free to buy me something, though I don't expect that (except from Stanley; you know who you are). I think it's more interesting as an indicator of the sorts of [...]
2009 06 14 Danny Comments (0)

Moving the Blog

I decided that this blog is mine, rather than Young Israel's, so I wanted to move it to a domain that I personally own. Thus, it is no longer at youngisrael-stl.org/wordpress, but at bililite.com/blog. Moving the blog intact was non-trivial, so I'm recording how I did it, based on mydigitallife's instructions: Create the new folder, [...]
2009 06 05 Danny PHP Comments (0)

jQuery UI 1.7

Finally, jQuery UI 1.6 final is out, renamed 1.7, and it's on google ajax libraries, so it's minimized (45K for the whole thing; .27 sec to download for me, which is nothing, especially if you're loading at the end of your code so the user is busy reading the content of your site). The contributors [...]
2009 03 08 Danny jQuery Comments (0)