Insert any Javascript bookmarklet December 10th, 2007

As the natural extension of Gareth Rushgrove’s bookmarklets for inserting the Dojo or YUI Javascript toolkits mentioned by Simon, here’s a tidying-up of a bookmarklet I’ve been using to bring in any Javascript using user input via a popup prompt:
Insert-JS bookmarklet

javascript:void(function(){
  var%20s=document.createElement("script");
  s.src=prompt("Full%20URL:");
  document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0].appendChild(s);
}())

I was originally appending it to the body as an invisible div, making use of [...]

OGN4: keynotes confirmed October 13th, 2007

The OGN juggernaut rumbles on towards the fourth Oxford Geek Night. Keynotes have been confirmed:

Tom Steinberg, founder of mySociety
James Gardner, co-founder of the Pylons Web Framework

We’ve also (as you can see above) got the website sorted out, alongside the Upcoming event. How l33t are we?

Team Drupal FTW! June 26th, 2007

Coming to the end of the Drupal project on which I’m currently working, I spotted someone else’s brand new site on drupal.org: TeamSugar.
The hallmark of a good frameworked site is that it’s not easy to guess which framework was used, and TeamSugar manages that admirably. While I can’t really comment on the design—I find most [...]

Image manipulation in the browser June 6th, 2007

While Picnik gradually converts the functionality of desktop image processing software into online tools (in the hope, presumably, of being bought up by one of the big players), Flash has found other, more piecemeal uses in augmenting the image and font functionality of your average browser. Hot on the heels of sIFR, which replaces text [...]