A simple and lightweight jQuery plugin that serves as a horizontal drag-able slider UI control (with no jQuery UI dependency). The demo shows it's use for certain hour blocks in a certain day.

Simple web proxy scripts for C#.NET in ASP and Java in JSP. These are a reference and starting point for those looking for a simple HTTP proxy script.

An ultra-light and fast javascript template engine as a jQuery plugin. 1.4KB pre-compressed.

A fast and lightweight javascript syntax highlighter for simple addition to your blog or site showcasing generic code without using server-side lexical analysis.

IE has trouble retaining BACK/FORWARD button support with IFRAMES on pages without the Last-Modified or ETag response headers.

An ever-useful powershell script for those who use the SVN CLI even on windows.

A fast and lightweight natural sort algorithm for javascript.
UPDATE 2/25/2012 - New 0.7 version with case-insensitive sorting support.
UPDATE 3/5/2011 - New 0.6 version that fixes date comparison in most modern browsers, e.g. Chrome Beta.

Powerful datatable with animated pagination and natural sorting.

Some notes on how to use rewrite rules to create developer sandboxes in a single-server dev environment.

A super-simple jQuery 1.2.6 plugin to extend the animate function to support animation of the CSS CLIP property.

Animated graphical form field validation jQuery plugin.

ASP.NET serializes the DateTime response as \/Date(-19312300000)\/ but we want jQuery to automatically parse that as a native Javascript Date() object...

To build a robust and fast AJAX handler facility utilizing Reflection to access remote methods in classes without using ASP.NET's AJAX library and the WebMethod factory and work with jQuery's $.ajax() or $.post() facilities.

A quick example on using a SqlParameterCollection to build the sql command string on the fly.

Manual support for the watch facility in Javascript which is an ad-hoc observer pattern.

A useful javascript print_r() function for those PHP developers working in javascript.

Looking for a mean and lean jquery plugin that is completely unobtrusive to the user and allows for tight integration into a jquery ajax driven site that needs to offer forward/back button support as well as state management?

BASH script to colorize the output of SVN and CVS.

Animated calendar datepicker for multi-day selection with multi-month display. Animated scrolling of previous and next months. Allows for a sequence of months to reside side by side and for the user to select a number of consecutive days.

Looking to serialize Hashtables in .NET with DateTimes as indexes in LitJson?

Simple Regular Expression to convert faux XML to a JSON string - example in C#.

Here's a code-example showing how to convert a legacy ADODB RecordSet XML string to a native ADO.NET DataSet object using the built-in OleDbDataAdapter functionality.

Simple Encrypt() and Decrypt() function for 256b/32B asymmetric encryption using AES written in C#.

This is a handy trick to find similar strings in varchar/text/etc fields in MSSQL without breaking the query plan.

Simple jQuery plugin from Douglas Crockford's 2008-02-14 json2.js release.

Load testing AJAX applications is somewhat of a new and often neglected frontier that unfortunately is an absolute necessity in the process of launching successful web applications. Here is a quick writeup on patching the AMAZING HTTPERF utility version 0.9.0 to make the already fabled wsesslog feature.

When you build an AJAX application that is served to IE6 and IE7 clients - you will probably run into the obscure Invalid Argument error. Here's some insight on how to handle these errors.

A powerful XLST script to convert legacy .NET ADODB XML to JSON.

A concise coldfusion script to capture SHIFT+RELOAD requests from firefox to then take a list of javascript/css files, consolidate them into a single file, minify them via JSMIN and compress them via gzip -9.

An interesting problem with Apache's mod_cache - even production in the 2.2.X branch - is that it does not cache mod_dir DirectoryIndex files. Here's the quick on how to forcefully redirect the user to a mod_cacheable page.

A much better Coldfusion implementation of flat-file caching on a set interval than the built-in CFCACHE.

Proof of concept using Papervision3D in Flash9 to simplify a simple Mesh Plane object via edge decimation based off a soft threshold z-coordinate delta.

Notes on how to do flash remoting to a clustered Coldfusion flash gateway as served via Apache.

Need to copy a complex object by value - instead of by reference - in javascript?

A streamlined, clean and appealing DHTML datepicker.

This is a classy DHTML tool tip that auto-positions itself as per the block it points to as well as the pointer position.

Mammoth Mountain Ski Area in a simple and barely interactive Papervision3D demonstration. This is using USGS DEM (Digital Elevation Map) data and properly applied black and white orthography from terra-server

A 3D terrain map of Mammoth Mountain Ski Area using Papervision 3D and USGS Digital Elevation Map values.

Some insight into the dreaded error: Connection reset by peer: proxy: prefetch request body failed.

Use JSON instead of the homebrew CFAJAX serialization.

Notes on problems when flash remoting to a clustered Coldfusion flash gateway as served via Apache.

A quick how-to on storing and retrieving binary data from a MySQL database in Coldfusion.

An example onRequestEnd Application.cfc function on truly removing unwanted white-space from the rendered html returned to the client. This will not break CFAJAX support.

Took a nice Canon network controlled camera, hacked around its control protocol a bit and here are my notes on how to control it via simple PHP socket code.

Here's a writeup on how to convert an MJPEG stream, specifically from a canon network controlled webcam, to FLV on the fly using FFMPEG and FFSERVER. This also duplicates the stream from the source and serves multiple streams to hungry clients, aka relay proxy.

Lightweight and feature-packed AS2.0 pulldown component.

Prevent characters from being entered on input fields in html via regular expression syntax. This is similar to the TextField.restrict property in Flash.

A simple example of how to block a certain DOM block while using my lightweight AS2.0 throbber animation to instruct the user to wait.

Coldfusion historically has had problems purging client data stored in the database, especially in a clustered environment. Here's a quick direct-db way to purge.

This is a BASH script to aggregate clustered Apache log files (even compressed rotated log files) and process them via webalizer.

Lightweight AS2.0 throbber animation.

The sexiest AS2.0 date picker calendar popup with animations

A robust XSLT transformation to convert legacy ADODB XML to WDDX XML.

A quick function that was put together to parse strings/numbers (float as well) into a US Dollar formatted string:

Nice lightweight AS2.0 date picker component with appealing date selection animation.

An example onRequestEnd Application.cfc function on truly removing unwanted white-space from the rendered html returned to the client.

Building a large-scale e-commerce site in Coldfusion? You will need this pattern...

Nice lightweight AS2.0 date picker component with appealing date selection animation.

Here are my notes on exploring how to properly use bounding boxes when developing custom components to allow easy instantiation in the Flash IDE.

My findings on how to handle collections as custom component parameters in AS2.0.

Here's a quick trick on how to more precisely calculate the height of a TextField object in AS2.0.