Author: Jerry Jones

A few projects I’m working on need to be able to send emails through the website, and since I develop everything locally, I need to be able to send emails from localhost.

My searching on how to do this (remember, I’m a front-end developer!) lead me to this amazing postfix email set-up tutorial.  Enjoy!

I made a spreadsheet in google that will take a search term and search it in all the nearby cities on craigslist and dynamically output all the results in the spreadsheet using importXML queries. You have to specify which three-letter category you want to search for. Like furniture (fua), cars by owner (cto), musical instruments (msg), etc. I’ve only tested it in some of the for sale categories.

Here’s what you do:

1. View the craigslist nearby cities search aggregator spreadsheet
2. Make a copy of the spreadsheet (you have to be logged into your google account to do this (file > make a copy…))
3. Open your spreadsheet copy in your google docs
4. Edit the config options (the ones in light blue)
5. View the listings on the “listings” sheet (results scroll horizontally)

Spread the word by linking back to this page. Enjoy!

The title is a mouthful, but it’s true.  A client needed a timer from a WordPress plug-in to be displayed multiple times on a page, but the plug-in didn’t allow for multiple instances on the page.  I tried to do a few workarounds by hacking (or just trying to make it do things it wasn’t intended to do without actually changing its code) the functionality of the plug-in itself to no avail.  So I turned to what is increasingly solving my web dilemmas: jQuery.

The code to dynamically get content from the page and output it wherever you want

$(function() {
//Tells the code to run the code every 800 milliseconds.
	setInterval(function() {

//Tells where to place the content you're grabbing.  I'm putting
//each one in a div with the class "countdown-timer"
	$('div.countdown-timer').html(function() {

//Sets a variable called timeRemaining, which is equal to the html
//of the first paragraph.  So any content inside of the first 
//paragraph gets plugged into the div class "countdown-timer"
		  var timeRemaining = $('p:first').html();

//tells the variable timeRemaining to actually output
		  return timeRemaining;
		});
	}, 800);
});

To get this to work for you:

• Change ‘div.countdown-timer’ to wherever you want the content to output. I used a class element so I could output it lots of times on the page.
• Change ‘p:first’ to wherever you want to be grabbing the content from. Mine just happened to be the first paragraph, so it was the easiest way for me to select it.
• Add whatever you put for the ‘div.countdown-timer’ to your page. So, for me, I put

  wherever I want the content from ‘p:first’ to appear.

Cheers!

Oh man. My life just got a little easier thanks to the folks over at CSS3 PIE.

Now I don’t have to make three images, line them up with empty div>s and work out odd padding/width math just to get a rounded border and a drop shadow in IE 6-8. Thanks CSS3 PIE.