Tim Dupree

EDIT: Check here for updates to the Google Chrome Hacker News OnePage extension. Google just recently released Chrome v3.0, and the developer builds in the dev channel now have extensions turned on by default (no need to append –enable-extensions to the exe target).  The extensions system for Chrome is getting nicer and nicer (just check out chrome://extensions in your Chrome browser).  I have a working version of Hacker News OnePage that I have tested with dev channel build 4.0.206.1.  I assume that it will also work fine with the new 3.0 stable release if you have extensions enabled. Install Hacker…

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This morning I had to implement an interactive map that allows one to locate local dealers of GPS equipment.  The site I needed to do this on is running an extremely old version of prototype.js (version 1.5, circa 2007) and moodom.js (the precursor to MooTools). I didn’t want to use these outdated libraries to create the little interactive app.  I would normally use MooTools, but I needed a library I could namespace so that I wouldn’t step on Prototype’s shoes.  I grabbed the latest build of jQuery, namespaced it using the jQuery.noConflict(); technique, wrote my code, and included it right before…

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EDIT: Check here for updates to Hacker News OnePage A new update to Chrome brought a better packaging system for extensions, but also broke all the extensions packaged with the old system.  So here are the new Hacker News and Digg extensions that will work with chrome. Hacker News OnePage (install): Provides users with the ability to browse Hacker News articles and comments without leaving the page. source – manifest Digg AdBlocker (install): Removes ads from digg. source – manifest

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There was a submission about “What makes a good programming font?” on HN today and, as usual, the comments on the submission proved more enlighting than the actual linked post (Hacker news has a great community).  From the comments I came across some nice programming fonts; Envy Code R and Bitstream Vera Sans Mono.  The user who posted about the Vera Sans Mono font also added a picture of it in action here.  I liked the syntax highlighting/code coloring of that code screenshot, so naturally I set out to try out something similar with dreamweaver and TextPad. I have to…

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