My how-to for restyling Google Calendar is by far this blog’s most popular post so far. Right from the start, people had requested that I adjust the code to accommodate Google Calendar’s mini-mode. It certainly was possible using the technique I used, but it did break the agenda which was flaky to begin with given the fact the feature was experimental. Every once in a while, I’d check on the stability of mini-mode to determine if it was ripe for some hacking. Then one day the mode simply didn’t work anymore. It was weird, but after further research I found out why. Mini-mode was superseded by the Google Calendar Gadget. The configuration form does provide some customization of the style, but it is certainly limited. So just like before, I poked and prodded the code until I was able to find the means to restyle the gadget.
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Inspired by a couple of articles and even a screencast, I wrote a short batch file that creates a Rails application and automatically loads it into a subversion repository. It works by first creating a temp folder, generating the rails app there, renaming the app folder to trunk, creating the accompanying branches and tags folder, and then deleting/renaming a bunch of non-essential files. Once that’s done it imports the three folders into a specified subversion repository. Once the import is complete, the temp folder is deleted and then the trunk is checked out. Finally it cleans-up by copying the database.yml file and ignoring the tmp and log folders. That’s it.
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I decided to try my hand at hacking Firefox. I’m a big fan of the Wayback Machine and after checking out the list of Firefox search plugins, I noticed one for the WM was missing. Seeing how they give you instructions on how to create one of your own, I figured I’d give it a go.
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