Fri, 16 Dec 2005:
Played around with flickr badges and a bit more javascript. Ended up with a simple enough fifteen demo in around 3 hours. DHTML and Javascript have slowly started to become a fun thing to hack on - mainly thanks to mozilla.
While coding it, spo0nman dropped in and he told me that he never knew about xpcshell (that was hidden away in my slashdot journal). It is a javascript interactive shell - like the python equivalent everyone has seen. For example, download dotgnu js samples and run it on the Firefox js engine (spidermonkey).
bash$ alias xpcshell='/usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/run-mozilla.sh /usr/lib/firefox-1.0.7/xpcshell' bash$ xpcshell js > ^D bash$ xpcshell prototype.js <juliet> Romeo! <romeo> My dear ? <juliet> At what o'clock to-morrow shall I send to thee? <romeo> At the hour of nine. <juliet> I will not fail: 'tis twenty years till then.
It is great for syntax checking your .js files - if you're writing FF extensions. But of course, I was writing all these on slashdot. Nice place to hide your journal actually (not indexed by Google).