Using Google Alerts as Forum Notification method

One irritant on the WEB I found a solution for: have you ever posted questions or comments to a site that didn't include automatic email notification when the question/comment got feedback? It happens to me all the time.

Google Alerts to the rescue!

I now use GoogleAlerts to track my whereabouts on the WEB. The usage pattern is simple: just form the habit of always signing your post with a distinctive mark and set an alert on this mark. With my name, this is easy as it is not so common.

Greasemonky Quick Search

I have to sift through countless RSS feeds all day seeking more information based on keywords I find. I wanted to automate the process just a bit so I devised a GreaseMonkey Firefox user script.

Usage is simple: just select the text to search and press " alt c " which will automatically bring-up the result page on Google Search.

One can find the script here on UserScripts.org.

Embedding FreeMind mindmaps

FreeMind is a very handy (and free ;-) tool. I recently started playing around Google Mashup Editor and wanted to document in my way the API; I thus used FreeMind yet again.

I have embedded the mindmap in a Google Page available here.

Embedding the mindmap is easy:
<div id="mm" src="http://jeanlou.dupont.googlepages.com/GME.mm" width="800" height="800"></div>

and place the Javascript code at the bottom of the page:

<script src="http://jeanlou.dupont.googlepages.com/freemind.js" type="text/javascript"></script>

Syntax Highlighting

I have devised a straightforward way of performing syntax highlighting of Javascript code. Follow this link to the demonstration page: http://jeanlou.dupont.googlepages.com/syntaxhighlighting.

Javascript Class template

Here is a sample class template in Javascript:
<br />// constructor<br /> function obj(){<br /> // code here<br /> }<br /><br /> // properties<br /> obj.prototype.p = {<br /> var1: true,<br /> var2: false // no comma for last element<br /> }<br /> <br /> // methods<br /> obj.prototype.method = function() {<br /> // code here<br /> }<br />