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Monthly Archives: November 2010
How to capture streaming videos from the Internet
Download-helper Websites KeepVid and YouTube Downloader are download-helper websites that allow users to provide them with the video links. These videos will hence be catalogued and uploaded to the site. They are not video hosting websites like YouTube or Dailymotion; they provide a browser-based service from as the user only has to enter the video’s …
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Regular Expression Builder
Regular expressions are one of those things that are incredibly powerful… if you know how to use them. It has taken quite a bit of time for me to learn the ins and outs of how they work, but once you get the hang of them there is almost always some variation that can be …
jQuery UI MultiSelect Widget
This is the successor and port of my original jQuery MultiSelect Plugin to a jQuery UI widget. While both will actively be maintained, I highly recommend you use this version over the plugin version. It has a more robust feature set, is faster, and is much more flexible. MultiSelect turns an ordinary HTML select control …
jQuery Related (Dependent) Selects Plugin
I’ve finally gotten around to writing & releasing a jQuery plugin that allows you to create any number of related/dependent select boxes in a form. I’ve yet to find a decent solution and needed something that was fairly customizable and could retrieve data using AJAX/JSON, so here she is.
jQuery: modifying the submit button when a form is submitted
I’ve found it useful on certain apps to disabled the submit button once the form has been submitted to prevent the user from accidentally/deliberately clicking on it twice. There are two ways to accomplish this, and only one will work in IE. Can you guess which one?