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Archive for January, 2009

31 Jan, 2009

My Unfortunate Xbox360 Experiences

Posted by: Carl In: toys

I love the console–and that’s why I keep coming back, but, unfortunately, I’m on my fourth machine due to the past three dying via the “red ring of death” (RROD).  Each time I had the Best Buy warranty, so, I wasn’t very frustrated, just a little inconvenienced.
I put together a quick graph of my Xbox360s’ [...]

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So I’ve updated my Twitter Fantastico script, features include:

Retweet Functionality:  Next to each tweet is a new icon, “RT”, clicking it will open an embedded form below that tweet. You can modify and retweet without refreshing the page through jQuery’s AJAX functionality.
Embedded Reply: Clicking the reply button opens an embedded form below that tweet. You [...]

I’ve “ported” my Ruby version of the Fallout 3 terminal hacking helper, and made it an HTML/Javascript/jQuery page.  I’m still working out the bugs, but you can find the latest version here: http://iworkwithcomputers.com/dev/jquery/fallout3_js_hacker/hacker.html

I’m looking at creating a new Greasemonkey script that uses jQuery throughout, more so than my previous script attempts.  It’ll be geared towards Twitter, once again, and it will be combining a few of my favorite features of other scripts:

“Endless Tweets”: This feature allows for “endless” scrolling on the main Twitter home page. No more [...]

13 Jan, 2009

[Greasemonkey]Retweet Script Update 2

Posted by: Carl In: development| twitter

(original: http://iworkwithcomputers.com/2008/11/13/greasemonkeyretweet-script-update/)
I’ve once again updated the Twitter Enhancements: Retweet script, by adding a dialog box when retweeting. Previously, you had to be on Twitter’s home page in order to use my updated Retweet, with AJAX functionality.  Now, you can be on any twitter page (aside from the Direct Messages page) and click the Retweet button. [...]


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I'm an ASP.NET developer who loves learning new frameworks, and methodologies, and I absolutely love simple, yet elegant solutions (don't we all?). Since I'm constantly picking up new things, I'm always asking myself how I can use the new knowledge in my current app to make it better, or more user friendly (or even more developer friendly). In my free time I typically am coding, reading tech books or spending time with my beautiful bride. And that's about it. Hope I didn't bore you too much.