How to add a timer to Eventum

I’ve been using Eventum for a while to keep track of bugs in a web application of mine. There was one feature missing that I really needed, and which made me switch to dotProject for a few months and that was a timer. When I’m working on a bug I wanted a way to be [...]

Prototype returning status code 0 in Opera

Seems like browsers don't handle Ajax calls returning a 204 no content status code very well. I've had issues with IE7 gets a 1223 status code instead of the 204. Well, it looks like Opera, at least 9.5.1, gets 0 as the status code. I'm using Prototype version 1.6.0.3 to handle the Ajax call so [...]

Editing a page from FireFox

Found a quick little JavaScript trick that lets you edit page content from within FireFox. Copy and paste the following into your address bar and press enter. javascript:document.body.contentEditable='true'; document.designMode='on'; void 0 Everything on the page becomes editable. Sure, it doesn't affect the file on server. But once you're done you can save the resulting file [...]

JavaScript progress bar indicator

Need a way to show the progress on a long process on your web page? Here's a quick little JavaScript routine that will do it for you.

Why blocking right-clicks is a waste of time

There's another forum I'm on where the discussion of blocking right-clicks comes up every few days it seems.  People put up their first website and are terrified when they find out how easy it is to right-click on an image and save it. The problem is that it's trivial for anyone with a moderate amount [...]