Etiqueta: blogs

  • Geocoding while blogger

    Suppose you go somewhere cool on vacation —it has to be cool enough so as to trigger show-off reflexes. Blogging about it, you’d think how nice would be that your mother readers could click on something to have the location displayed on a mapping service (Google Maps, Yahoo Maps and the like). Let’s envision some…

  • Greasemonkey and microformats (5)

    Leaving so soon? I was hoping to interest you on yet another release of my famous series Greasemonkey and Microformats! No, wait! Please, oh please, just a little more… Well, for the few of you still there, here I am again at it. Today, let’s talk about something I fancy calling microformat lifecycle. It’s easy…

  • Cita del Día

    Sobre estas líneas se debería ver (¿funciona?) mi último proyecto: la Cita del Día para Blogger. De hecho, debería poder instalarse en cualquier sitio. Sólo necesita que JQuery esté disponible en la página, aunque sería bastante fácil reescribir el código para eliminar la dependencia. Las citas están publicadas en una hoja de cálculo de Google…

  • Quote of the Day

    You should see over these lines the result of my last project: a Quote of the Day implementation for Blogger It should be a piece of cake to port to other blogging platforms: the only requirement for the code to work is to have a recent version of the JQuery Javascript library loaded. Rewriting the…

  • De reformas

    Una de las mejores formas de conseguir que se implemente una característica en cualquier sistema informático en el que estemos interesados es, simplemente, arremangarse y codificarla. Quizá sea este el motivo fundamental por el que prefiero que el código que pase por mis manos sea abierto: dado interés y (más importante) tiempo suficiente, puede conseguirse…

  • Bibliolinks v3

    Lately, real life constraints have forced me to consider the possibility of growing an additional pair of arms, Shiva-style; however, some tiny bugs in Bibliolinks, together with my recent discovery of jQuery, have prompted me to release a new version, Bibliolinks v3. This version features a new, web-two-dot-zeroish load progress indicator, together with a handy…

  • Código elegante

    Una herramienta recomendable para todo aquél que planee mostrar código en una bitácora es dp.SyntaxHighlighter. Éste es el modo de incorporarlo en Blogger: Descarga la última versión disponible de dp.SyntaxHighlighter (1.4.1). Descomprime el paquete en algún lugar de tu disco duro. Hay algunos ejemplos de uso, y dos directorios importantes: Scripts y Styles. Necesitas alojar…

  • Bibliolinks explained

    In an earlier post I presented bibliolinks, a new blogger tool based on Google AJAX Search API. Now it’s time to explain how to install it in your Blogger blogs. You’ll have to modify your template in obscure and contorted ways, so be prepared and backup it before it’s too late! One more thing: this…

  • Bibliolinks!

    Lots of links in your posts? Would you like something that provides your readers with prompt access to all links in your posts, together with clipped content? Something like an automatic bibliography for your blog? You’ve come to the right place! Bibliolinks is a tool which, by means of some right out nasty manipulation of…