Simon Willison’s Weblog

jQuery Taconite Plugin. Lets you serialize jQuery DOM manipulation commands as an XML document for retrieval via Ajax.

# 2nd July 2007, 6:29 pm / ajax, jquery, taconite, javascript, plugins

jQuery plugin: Validation. Pretty clever way of attacking the client-side form validation problem; supports both configuration object literals and custom attributes on the form fields themselves.

# 30th June 2007, 10:26 pm / validation, javascript, jquery, plugins

Appalachian. “Appalachian is a Firefox add-on that adds the ability to manage and use several OpenIDs to ease the login parts of your browsing experience.”

# 30th June 2007, 1:36 pm / appalachian, firefox, openid, plugins

Permalink Redirect WordPress Plugin (via) Neat WordPress plugin that forces a redirect to an item’s permalink if the URL has any extra crud in it.

# 2nd March 2007, 12:49 am / wordpress, disambiguated, urls, plugins

Twitter Updater (a WordPress plugin). “The Twitter Updater automatically sends a Twitter status update to your Twitter account when you create, publish, or edit your WordPress post.” Fantastic idea—I really want this for my own site.

# 22nd January 2007, 11:12 pm / twitter, wordpress, plugins

Guide to the Dabble DB Plugin API (via) This is really nice—Dabble POSTs your plugin script a bunch of CSV values, your script returns CSV for the derived fields. Doesn’t seem to state which flavour of CSV though.

# 9th January 2007, 11:37 am / csv, dabbledb, chad-fowler, api, plugins

EclipsePlugins (via) Eclipse is the only IDE I’ve ever used that has actually increased my productivity.

# 28th May 2004, 7:23 pm / eclipse, java, plugins