One of my daily reads, Lifehacker, did a reader poll recently on the best text editors… I have to say I was pretty much incensed that jEdit wasn’t even in the running!
I’d been considering eventually writing a post to extol the many virtues of this free, open source, cross-platform and feature packed programmer’s text editor, but when I saw that it was snubbed in the LH poll, I was sort of inspired to post something in defense of it.
I’ve had a snippet of jQuery and javascript kicking around for a while, that I have found handy in the past for generating post slugs. Finally I’ve packaged it as a plugin to share: jQuery Slug Plugin.
This is my first jQuery plugin, so it doesn’t follow the more advanced plugin development pattern by Mike Alsup, instead I followed a more rudimentary plugin authoring tutorial.
Here’s an explanation of the plugin, and examples of its usage.
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In North Bay snacking news, my friend Sherry Milford’s organic, wheat-free, vegan baking is now available at Twigg’s on Fraser street.
Sherry of Heal Thy Health is a certified nutrition consultant, and along with her partner Yan Roberts is also the proprietor of the Piebird Bed and Breakfast, in Nipissing Village.
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“Hello” to everyone and anyone who is reading this. I’m starting a blog pretty late into the game, kind of like a manager who suggests “Wouldn’t it be a great idea to have a guestbook on the site? So users can leave their name, a comment and their email address?” in 2005. Besides the obvious SEO benefits of having a blog where I regularly discuss North Bay Web Design (that was cheap), I think it will give me the opportunity to be a more active participant in the web design community. I’ve lurked and read tutorials on some awesome blogs, have benefited from CSS test suites painstakingly created by volunteers and examples/workarounds of bugs, etc. and I feel that I’ve greatly improved my skills since starting out, and now I will be able to contribute something to the community that helped me along.
In the future, I plan to share jQuery plugins, CodeIgniter libraries, and anything else I code that may be useful to other developers.
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