I am addicted to making Greasemonkey scripts. I started making scripts to help me in an online game I play, but now I make them for many other sites.

For my clients, I have made Greasemonkey scripts that can:

• scraping data for import into spreadsheets/databases
• adding AJAX to a site that didn’t support it before
• creating mashups (e.g. linking your CRM to another website)

July 21st, 2009 | Mental Note: Add Category | 1 comment

For a year, I was REALLY into making widgets. I’d would still be making them if they ever fixed the bugs I reported and got the performance of the widget engine better.

My self-hosted homepage for my widgets was here, while my approved widgets are hosted on the official site. There is one secret widget I made that isn’t really hosted anywhere, and that’s my cockroach simulator. That was one of my favorite widgets. It hogged my CPU, but it was worth it to see a cockroach scurrying around my screen.  My most popular script was probably Doom mooD.

I know it’s been mentioned by Dwight Silverman twice before, and I still haven’t found anything that’s even close to the combined whimsy and functionality. When you add in the nostalgia factor, I don’t think anything can match up to it.

From programming widgets, I learned about XML and javascript. I got into some of the heavy object orientated side of javascript, and even started making libraries for other widget makers. I also started making Photoshop scripts to help automate taking my Photoshop designs into the XML layouts for the Yahoo! Widget Engine.

July 21st, 2009 | Mental Note: Add Category | No comments