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  • February 15, 2006

    A Few Things

    Filed under: general — Eric @ 12:01 am

    Good Lord, I have been busy as hell lately. I have a few things that I’m meaning to do soon- providing translations is one of them. I’ve had some very generous people e-mail me translated locales for my extensions, which I admit weren’t properly formatted to begin with. I just am gone for most of the day to work, and then on nights like tonight, I have class from 6-10 pm. There’s not a whole lot of idle time I have these days… I’m closing on a house. My wife is pregnant. You get the idea. So my apologies for not being as active here as I would like, but that’s just how it goes some times.

    One thing you may have noticed- I ditched the green layout. It was starting to get on my nerves, and as one guy put it, it sucked as far as code readability. We’re stepping back to an older layout, but hell, I liked it then, and I like it now.


    15 Responses to “A Few Things”

    1. Bob Ish Says:

      1st congrats on on you future little Eric or Erica!
      2nd glad to see the old format the green one got to me too.

    2. Rick Says:

      Hi Eric
      Thxs for all your coding with bugmenot.
      Am having a tad of difficulty getting Bugmenot 1.3 to work with Firefox (FF) 1.5.0.1. Then had a look at the extension notes re bugmenot and says its only compatatable with FF 1.5.0.
      Are you likely to have at look at the issue (says there are no sites at bumenot for example the new york times) with FF 1.5.0.1 and Bugmenot in the near future.
      I realize your time is valuable.
      Many Thxs
      Rick

    3. keso Says:

      用MR Tech生成的已安装Firefox扩展清单…

      用MR Tech生成的已安装Firefox扩展清单…

    4. William Peckham Says:

      Clean, fast, simple. Good for homes with kids, good for websites and blogs.

      Life takes priority over coding, something that I was slow to learn. Wife and kids make great teachers so I must have been a slow learner, but I “got it” now. I wish you great good luck!

      Happy st. Patrick’s day!

    5. Tim Reynolds Says:

      Eric,

      I don’t know if you care about this or not, however I hacked BugMeNot extension for my work so that we could use it for a universal password repository. Of course it was very easy because the extension is so well laid out. However, there are some who refuse to switch to Firefox at this moment, so I ported BugMeNot to IE. I used a different ‘bugmenot’ IE extension as a base, however that one just opened a new window. My hack will enter the login for you directly into the form.

      I have it to where there is only one copy of bugmenotOverlay.js (renamed, but still) that works for both of them.

      The only MAJOR change is that I no longer parse the whole BugMeNot page. Since we are storing them locally, we are just storing the username, password in a text file.

      If you want this code at all (as ugly as it is) just drop me an email. My email should be logged. Again, I just hacked your great code around till it worked. It isn’t pretty. It isn’t good, but it works.

      Tim
      razialx

    6. Eric Says:


      Tim, I will get in touch with you. Very cool.


    7. socrotize fortlow Says:

      http://www.daytondailynews.com/

      doesnt work for this site

    8. Andy Mitchell Says:

      Hi Eric,

      Your tutorial was one of the things that got my FF extension off the ground in the early days.

      It’s now out and a 1.0 – it’s Bumble Search (http://www.bumblesearch.com), and it helps you find new (relevant) web pages; super charges Google; and puts eBay inside Amazon (and vice versa).

      Anyway, that is by the by.
      I recently wrote an article on my personal experiences of developing an extension – the highs, the lows, the unexpected, the trials/tribulations and the cold hard stats.
      It’s not technical, it’s human. I just thought it would go hand in hand with the tutorial you provide; as such insight would appeal to first time developers.

      Drop me an email if you’re interested,

      Cheers,
      Andy

    9. alan Says:

      works for me

    10. Billy Wicked Says:

      I like the anarchistic flavour of BMN, but it has a crucial problem, which was stated in this post:
      #

      Bugmenot NOT ( 2005-11-10 )
      “I think a lot of sites are using a bot to check the bugmenot site for accounts and then banning them.

      Bugmenot only really works anymore on obscure sites.”
      #

      I thought about a trade-off solution, BMN “community” needs to regulate itself! what I mean is that only registered users (yeah.. it’s contradictory to the main purpose so fucking what?) would be able to submit new logins, and they have to do it in order to search the database, it’s a P2P concept “you give – you take”.
      so no fucker from othersites can monitor BMN database and ban people (I have 2 bans already btw, it sucks).
      Work out the mechanix of this idea and you got youself a more effective (not perfect tho) way to track good-bmn’ers and fuckers.

    11. Eric Says:


      Billy, I like the way you think. Unfortunately, I just have the hook into the service, which is run by a really decent fellow who has a real dislike for any registration- so much so that he made BugMeNot. He checks in from time to time, so next time I hear from him I’ll bounce that idea off of him. Cheers.


    12. hossein Says:

      i can not access to this site (www.femjoy.com)or other same site .
      please help me ,
      thanks a lot , goodbye

    13. gemma Says:

      Does not work for me.
      http://gemmaclock.tripod.com/

    14. tom Says:

      ok,very good.

    15. marry Says:

      http://www.86575.com

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