Month: November 2009

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Staying on top of the (Google) Wave

Google Wave is an awesome tool, but right now I don’t have enough contacts on it to make checking it part of my daily routine. This causes me to miss the occasional activity of those friends who do use it, however rarely. Today I found an interesting wave which had been sleeping in there for the last five days, so I decided to look around and see if there are any notifiers available. The one I picked was Waver, which happens to be free, and works on both Mac and Windows.

Are you using Google Wave? What are your thoughts on it so far? Can you recommend any other desktop clients or notifiers for it?

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Revisiting the JavaScript Calendar Control – Part 3

Be the JavaScript. Check out The Little Book of JavaScript!

It’s been some time since I started writing this three part series, and it certainly took a while longer to get done than I expected. A busy work schedule does tend to do that, but if it makes anyone feel better, having left the third part hanging did give my conscience a field trip. So let’s do a quick recap and get on with it 🙂

  • In part 1, we created a jQuery plugin which displays a simple static calendar.
  • In part 2, we added the facility to pick a date, and to switch the month on display.
  • In part 3 (this post), we will add some sanity checks, and the ability to display events on given days.

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