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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!

The doTimeout plugin does everything that setTimeout does, but allows you to more easily cancel individual timeouts, override existing timeouts with new ones, and even force execution of a callback before its timeout is set to run. In addition to all those convenience features, doTimeout is fully jQuery chainable.

Check out the documentation and examples over at the doTimeout plugin page now, and let me know if you have any questions, comments, or suggestions!

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!

Robyn scored us some tickets to see SMV (Stanley Clarke, Marcus Miller and Victor Wooten) at the House of Blues tonight. the basses were thumpin' and the music was bumpin' - everyone took at least one killer solo, including Marcus on bass clarinet and Stanley on upright.. If you get a chance to see these guys, take it!

Also, check out my photos from the show!

While I find BBEdit to be a fantastic text editor, there are a few minor things I’ve always wanted to change, one of which is the color for Invisibles. I love the idea, but against my preferred background color, they stand out far too much to be anything but distracting.

If you’ve never seen Invisibles, you can enable them for the current document in the Text Options menu of that window’s toolbar, or globally by going to Preferences > Editor Defaults > Show Invisibles.

Now, if at first glance they seem obnoxious, imagine their color changed to be a bit more subtle, like just slightly darker or lighter than the background color. Sound better? Read on!

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