JavaScript

grunt-ssh is a small Grunt plugin that provides SSH and SFTP tasks using the excellent pure JS implementation of ssh2. Since I first released it in February 2013 it has been downloaded over 33,000 times, and 22 people have contributed to it.

I noticed in my Nginx logs that a number of sites were serving my jQuery Placeholder Plugin JavaScript files directly from my site, as opposed to hosting it themselves. Probably an accident, but still…

This looks interesting. Backed.

You can also browse the source code, but it will only be open sourced if the project reaches its goal.

I have released a simple jQuery plugin that converts email addresses such as you [at] example [dot] com into clickable mailto links.

I have released a new version (0.3 0.4) of my jQuery Placeholder Plugin, which emulates the HTML5 placeholder attribute in browsers that do not support it.

The jQuery Placeholder Plugin provides support for the placeholder HTML5 attribute in browsers that do not support it.

The Simile Timeline allows you to make beautiful, interactive timelines for web pages using only JavaScript. It is fairly flexible and allows you to create timelines with intervals of Seconds, Hours and Days right up to Centuries and Millenniums.

The other day I got tripped up by the way JavaScript assigns variables. In many languages, assigning a variable to another variable creates a copy of the existing variable. If you wanted to make the new variable a reference to the existing variable, you would have to explicitly define that. For example, in Perl you can do the following:

Earlier this week a new version of the JavaScript Syntax Highlighter by Alex Gorbatchev was released. This 2.0 version is a bit thin on new features and supported languages but does have a new home and, significantly, has been released as donationware.