I wish I’d known about retest when I posted about regular expressions recently. It’s a great little utility from Christof Hoeke that uses Python’s re module and SimpleHTTPServer power to give you an interactive regex tester right in your web browser. He says he’s only tested it on Windows XP, but it worked great for me on OS X 10.4.3.
Brendon commented on Sun Feb 18 18:29:06 2007:
Another good Regular Expression tester to check out is ReJax:
Windows Live Local has potential, but it’s a total strikeout on the Mac.
(Perhaps the “Windows” part of the name should have been a clue. But if it’s really not supposed to work on the Mac, why not do some browser sniffing and send a helpful message – like “Go away”?)
I’m a long-time fan of Eric Meyer’s S5 browser-based presentation system. (In fact, I’ve been working on a TextMate bundle for it. Though the code to produce an individual slide is very simple, it still can be a bit fussy when you’re producing a lot of them.)
Robert Nyman’s new AJAX-S system is unabashedly inspired by S5, but places slide content in a separate XML file that then gets rendered into HTML by Javascript.
Via Rafe I learned of an astounding Javascript hack done by a MySpace user. Excerpts from the summary, allegedly written by the creator:
…anyone who viewed my profile who wasn’t already on my friends list would inadvertently add me as a friend. Without their permission.
8:35 am: You have 74 friends and 221 friend requests. Woah. I did not expect this much. I’m surprised it even worked. 200 people have been infected in 8 hours. That means I’ll have 600 new friends added every day. Woah.
Sometime in recent weeks, store.apple.com picked up some Ajax. If you didn’t know this either, go play with the online configurator. Notice that as you make changes via the pop-up menus, updates to the “Summary” box in the upper right are made without a page load. The items that are added or altered by your selection are briefly highlighted in blue, which then fades out.
Examining the source reveals certain telltale signs as well.