Know your audience? Got google analytics aggregating their details? Great, good for you! But doe’s that add any value in the short term? Improve THEIR browsing experience? In the long run you should use analytics to achieve better sites (although many don’t) – but for now, right here you can still add some of the [...]
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IP to Location Alternative: Javascript – Using JS to find Browser Country / Location not from IP
Also posted in Snippets, Web Development Tagged asp.net, download, explorations, javascript, location, php, timezones
Fix/Hack to make AutoSuggest JQuery Plugin work
When I came across Drew Wilson’s flashy JQuery Autosuggest plugin I happily downloaded the code and started using it within a recent project, but as I used it more and more I kept hitting a bug – don’t know if its just the version of JQuery I was tied to using or whether everyone using [...]
Also posted in Web Technology Tagged autosuggest, client-side, hacks, JQuery, ui
Maintain a CSV with Javascript – keep a hidden list
The situation: Want to build a comma separated list of int’s (or whatever) client-side, in javascript, remove/add items on the fly using JS. Well these tiny functions below are what I use, useful when you just need to get a clever form / app input done. Using the below you can add/remove items to an [...]
Also posted in Snippets, Web Development Tagged client-side, csv, javascript, ui
Unable to drop JQuery sortable onto empty list? Hack solution
The problem: You have a multi column (or area) JQuery UI Sortable (these are neat) which only needs to show a “drop zone” when the user has started to drag a sortable object. The JQuery documentation for this doesn’t account for the reality of the above, its all very well if you want the empty [...]
Also posted in Snippets, Web Development Tagged JQuery, Sortable
Ebay Partner Network Changes RSS Urls (again)
If you are part of the wave of Ebay Partner Network (EPN) affiliates that stuck up middle-man eshops fed by their RSS feeds you may have missed this. In the 5 years or so I have been an ebay affiliate they have only done this a few times, but for the hundreds of custom scripts [...]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, C#, Code Tagged Auction2Post, ebay partner network
Grab Tabs – Get chromium urls in a list
Long story short there is a bunch of extensions for chrome/chromium which provide you with session management and tab control but frankly none of them do exactly what I wanted so I have fudged a solution by using session manager and writing a 5 minute extension: Grab Tabs. Somehow it seemed easier to write an [...]
Also posted in Code, Web Technology
Javascript in Spreadsheets? – Google Apps Script Does that
Far from being a google promoter, I do like this. Google Apps Script opens up google spreadsheets to scripting – Just like Macro’s etc in Excel, but with Javascript. This effectively opens up a world of online data processing and analysis that would have not been easily possible within a browser before hand, especially suiting [...]
Also posted in Affiliate Marketing, Search Engine Optimisation, Technology, Web Development, Web Technology
Developers Arsenal PHP to ASP Jump
Server Side Scripting is a wonderful term. It’s what takes the control off of the browser and solely in the hands of the developer, because ultimately the developer is the one with the coding capacity. Since I first messed about with php for my own entertainment I have always revelled in using it, perhaps it [...]
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