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.
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.
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:
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.