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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I cur­rently develop on a Win­dows machine. (You can cut the snick­er­ing.) There­fore, I don’t have the plea­sure of using Text­Mate. I’m also avoid­ing IDEs as a mat­ter of course when an edi­tor and CLI often avoids the bloat and sub­se­quently works faster. I first used Scite which shipped with InstantRails. I quickly moved over to jEdit when I switched to Rails on Cyg­win. With the right set of plu­g­ins you can quickly and eas­ily get a TextMate-like edi­tor. I decided to give Vim/GVim a try when I saw it in action. As much as I liked the raw power, things just didn’t make sense to me. When you learn to use edi­tors a cer­tain way, it’s hard to break old habits. Enter Cream.

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The UI on a project of mine had to be resiz­able. The UI included a script.aculo.us slider which unfor­tu­nately did not have a resize method nor was it smart enough to update itself should the under­ly­ing ele­ment be resized. So I cre­ated the fol­low­ing extension:

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I’ve sub­mit­ted a patch to the Rails devel­op­ers that adds a Touch­pad con­trol to script.aculo.us. It is a 2D con­trol based heav­ily off of Slider and so shares some of the same options and behav­ior. The Touch­pad call­backs out­put an array [x, y] rather than a sin­gle value v which is what Slider does. Touch­pad also has no han­dles so the last value is not preserved.

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