Sun, 31 Jul 2005
O'Reilly Text ISBN to Amazon.co.uk Linker -- Greasemonkey
I got bored of having two windows open and having to copy the ISBN from
the O'Reilly site, tab to the amazon.co.uk window, paste in to the search
box and press return. And when I was looking at more than a single book it
got worse... So in a fit of laziness that cost me two hours I wrote my
first Greasemonkey user script; which I called O'Reilly
ISBN Link2Amazon.co.uk. The script is pretty simple, it replaces the
plain text ISBN on the O'Reilly catalog pages with a link to the book at
Amazon.co.uk
My JavaScript is terrible and so it took way too long for me to put together and it's got a very hacky ISBN extractor. It'd be better with a two phase approach, the first one with something like ([\w|\d|-]*) and then the second one to remove the hyphens. But I couldn't get that to work. I'll go back and tidy the regex up when I work out enough of the language to make it do The Right Thing. Oh for a perl interpreter...
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Posted: 2005/07/31 23:23 | /tools/online | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
Ruby on Rails Podcast and Perlcast
I'm a big fan of the "big three" scripting languages, Perl, Python and
Ruby, but I don't get a lot of time to keep up with all the relevant news.
Fortunately you can now download and listen to the official Ruby on Rails Podcast or the ever
growing Perlcast.
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Posted: 2005/07/31 15:34 | /sites | Permanent link to this entry | This entry and same date
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