About Me
My name (as you may already have guessed) is Ben Alman, but most people call me by my nickname, “Cowboy.” I’m a 30-something web developer living and working in the Boston Metro West area. I’m happily married to a wonderful woman, and when I’m not hanging out with her, I’m out playing funk bass or taking photos.
Featured News
I was caught a little off-guard by the recent Linkinus 2.0 release, and as a result haven't yet had the time to port my popular Simplified style over to the new API. Which isn't to say that I'm not trying, in fact I'm spending all the time I can spare on it, just take a look!
Either way, I have made a lot of progress. In the process of porting Simplified, I've rewritten the majority of my v1.x code as well as all the style helper JavaScript I've come across. For example, I've already created JavaScript Linkify and a jQuery Long Url plugin, both of which will be included with Simplified. I still have to handle emoticons, embedding images and videos, and a lot of other features (emoticons and embeds will be optional, of course) but It's coming along.
My real challenge is being able to fit in the Simplified styling work with everything else that I have going on right now. Because I'm not getting paid for my work, if you would like to donate to the cause, It would be greatly appreciated. Just click the "Donate" button in the sidebar of my site, and thanks!
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Recent Project Updates
This would probably actually be better called “Run some arbitrary code that requires jQuery, loading a minimum required version of jQuery first (but only if necessary), affecting the host page as little as possible Bookmarklet” but that wasn’t nearly as catchy as “Run jQuery Code Bookmarklet” so I’m going to stick with that.
This boilerplate code is useful for bookmarklets that need jQuery to execute their payload, in situations where you don’t know if jQuery or a specific minimum required version of jQuery will already exist in the page.
Also, an easy-to-use bookmarklet generator has been created to streamline the process!
As always, please check out the Run jQuery Code Bookmarklet now, and let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions!
- jQuery doTimeout plugin v0.3 06-25-2009 0
- JavaScript debug v0.3 06-09-2009 0
- jQuery iff plugin v0.1 06-02-2009 0











