Category Archives: programming

I Don’t Like Being Told What I Can and Can’t Do

I was trying to update my Netflix autoplay bookmarklet since the autoplay feature that Netflix came out with is…not great. What I found was that Netflix tried to disable the console. Well, that became a more interesting problem to solve…and … Continue reading

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Fixed Netflix Autoplay Bookmarklet!

As promised, here is the new fixed version of my bookmarklet: Please note I can no longer tell when the episode is almost over, so I am now just timing the entire length of play. You will now see a … Continue reading

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I Know My Netflix Bookmarklet Broken!

Yes folks, I know. I am sorry, the new player they released last week broke it. I too was sad to discover this, I mean I didn’t really make it for you all, I made it because I wanted it! … Continue reading

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Fixing the Terrible: Turning an SVN Branch into a GIT Repository

Long ago, someone, for some reason, thought it was a good idea to use branches in SVN as if they were repositories, so one repository contained many different branches each branch being its own completely independent project. When we moved … Continue reading

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Netflix Autoplay Bookmarklet – With Multiple Season Support!

Not content to leave well enough alone, I was hacking on my bookmarklet some more. It can now handle crossing between seasons. There is also a bit less guessing going on now, so I am more confident in it. For … Continue reading

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Netflix Autoplay Bookmarklet!

I have updated this plugin, please use the new BETTER version – Click Here Netflix is awesome, most of the time the fact that I have to click the “Play next episode” button does not bother me, usually I am … Continue reading

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I don’t GIT rebase.

I switched my team over to GIT about a month ago. For the most part it has been ok, a few small problems here and there, a lot of learning. We ran into a situation that caused us quite a … Continue reading

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Cascading form require/validation

I ran into an interesting problem recently dealing with some complicated form validation. The issue was that we had several forms with fields that were required or optional based on if other inputs were filled out, with the requirements falling … Continue reading

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Duplicate IDs are baaaaaaaaaaaaaaad

If you are not already very aware, duplicate IDs in your markup are a very bad thing. Now, technically they will work fine in CSS, and can possibly even make it faster, BUT they WILL break your javascript. Basically when you have multiple elements with the same ID what the browser will do is unpredictable…Here is my solution to that problem. Continue reading

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Updates to my pub/sub

I have updated my pub/sub plugin.  The two changes are: It now uses the full words, publish, subscribe, and unsubscribe – this change was because with 1.5, jQuery now has a sub method which I do not want to overwrite. … Continue reading

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