Today's list of links is going to have a theme. Yesterday, I purchased Greasemonkey Hacks
I tried reinstalling, uninstalling, examining the config files and even Holy Water. Deciding to stop short of a virgin sacrifice, I uninstalled Greasemonkey, Firefox, then deleted all the relevant directories and reinstalled everything... Now every thing works and I am in love with greasemonkey. The first few chapters of the book are now multi colored from my notes, highlighter and red pen. Today I am going to share with you some of the links I found in the book.
Before I do, I should explain what Greasemonkey (blog) is. It is an awesome add-on for Firefox. It allows you to customize the browser in a manner very similar to the way CSS lets you customize a web page. There is a more complete description of what Greasemonkey is here. In a matter of minutes, I was able to customize my Google Reader to include a custom search that allows me to search my feeds and display the results inside of the reader. Using this simple script even a monkey could tweak it.
The first link is Dive into Greasemonkey also the work of Mark Pilgrim. This is a great online guide to the little techno-primate. I should also warn the reader that you are tweaking things that may impact the security of your machine. It is a good idea to read this warning. (For the lazy among you, there were some flaws in the early version of greasemonkey. They were fixed but the result is a tad bit more complexity in the use of the add-on.)
One of my pet peeves is that when I read a book; I read every single page. What follows is a list of links I collected from the credits of this fine book. This is not a complete list of the links in the credit.
The scope of what I am listing are links that I feel are related to the use of Greasemonkey, Firefox and javascript. In other words, those that will help you and I learn and use it. Many of the other links in the credits are links to the services that various contributors offer. Some of the links are for add-ons that do not work in FF 2.0... I did not include them for I am not able to test them. All of the links in the credits are good but not all of them are relevant to the context of this post. I highly recommend that you buy and read the book.
- Overstimulate.com - The blog of Jesse Andrews. I particularly like what he has to say about IE... "This site is tested only in Flock and Firefox (life is too short to mess with Internet Explorer)"
- Curiosity is Bliss - The blog of Julien Couvreur. This Microsoft developer has written 35 scripts for our use. Of the Scripts, Boing Boing Butler is my personal favorite.
- vadikom.com - The work of Vasil Dinkov (link to blog). His company offers a variety of services and a few free scripts.
- axlotl.net - The blog of Chris Feldmann. There are a lot of kelw photos on his site and he a has a code and greasemonkey category.
- SlightlyRemarkable.com - The blog of Jonathan Fenocchi who has a greasemonkey and several other programming categories.
- Peer Pressure - The blog of Matthew Gertner who has firefox category with some very nice posts.
- bitworking.org - The blog of Joe Gregorio who's Site Map has many useful links and is also behind The Well Formed Web.
Well folks, contrary to popular belief, I have to work. I am afraid I must cut this post a bit short but I will continue it at a later date. What is scribbled above is not even half of the links in the book' credits. Again, I encourage you to buy this book. When I last checked the Amazon link you could get it for under 19 bucks. It is worth every penny.
