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My little programming projects that may be useful to others. Mostly jQuery-related.

jQuery UI Widgets

My most popular post: Understanding jQuery UI Widgets.

ajaxpopup

Popup dialog box attached to a specified element, with the markup pulled from the server with AJAX.

flexcal

Date picker widget that allows multiple calendar systems.

googleSearch

Popup dialog for Google search results.

hebrewkeyboard

Popup Hebrew keyboard for editable elements.

textpopup

Base widget for creating popup dialog boxes attached to specified elements.

timepickr

Version of Maxime Haineault's timepickr that works with jQuery UI 1.8. timepickr is a time-selecting widget that uses a minimum of clicks.

widget

Extensible widget that allows subclassing, calling superclass methods and aspect-oriented programming.

Other jQuery Plugins

fader

Simple photo cross fader. Not updated in a while and doesn't work with the most recent jQuery.

gradient

Enhanced version of Brandon Aaron's gradient plugin, to create color gradients without images or CSS3.

jsvk

jQuery adapter for Ilya Lebedev's JavaScript VirtualKeyboard.

keymap

Turns keydown event codes into understandable strings.

livesearch

Plugin to allow "live" (scroll and highlight as you type) searching a text area.

parsecss

Javascript CSS parser. Allows extending CSS with custom selectors and attributes.

screenfade

Little plugin to fade the screen and restore it, to allow subtle style changes.

scrollIntoView

Plugin to scroll all of an element into the visible window.

sendkeys

Plugin to simulate keypresses on editable elements.

Prism plugins

Prism is a great javascript syntax highlighter, and I created a few plugins to fit my needs.

Language Support

Support for PDF, PHP, Lisp/Scheme, and Visual Basic.

linenumber

Adds line numbering to highlighted code

Other Javascript

bililiteRange

Functions to manipulate text and selection in a browser-independent fashion. Works on input, textarea and contenteditable=true elements. There are quite a few plugins that work with this library; see the code on github.

WordPress plugins (PHP)

wishlist

Skeleton (not the complete code) for a simply Amazon wishlist widget.

sitemeter

Widget to add a sitemeter badge to a WordPress blog.

Other PHP

db_backup

PHP function to backup a mySQL database, since mysqldump can't handle Unicode.

scheduler

PHP code to run scheduled tasks if cron is not available, based on hits on the website.