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Just a Couple of Jquery Things I would like To Share

I've been working on a fairly robust website the past few weeks and I wanted to share a couple of small utility plug-ins as well as post some cool things I've discovered. The plug-ins are very rough. I'll eventually clean them up and post them in the projects section, but for now I just want to have a nice reference for them while things are fresh in my head.

I think I just discovered a bug in JSLint, Cool!

You would think I would be used to breaking things by now, but I just discovered a weird bug in JSLint! How cool is that?!?

Anyway, the bug most likely isn't really a bug, it's more like a weird error result based on my screwed up JavaScript. I was working on one of my scripts and I kept getting a weird error result that looked like this:

Come Up With A Cool jQuery Plug-In Idea and I'll Try To Make It

I was thinking the other night of writing a new jQuery plug-in and I was tossing around a few ideas of what to create. Then I started thinking... instead of making something I wanted, maybe I should let you guys tell me what you want. I know, weird, huh. But seriously, I think it might be kind of cool to see what the jQuery community is craving for. Most of my plug-ins focus on the problems I encounter on my client sites and to be honest, they can be a tad bit utilitarian. So if you have a great idea for a plug-in, lets hear it.

How It Works

I think we should lay down a few ground rules first.

• I don't think we need to recreate the wheel. If there's already a plug-in out there that does what your asking, then I won't do it. Lets be original folks.
• I don't think this should be a monster of a plug-in that's overly complicated. Lets try to come up with simple, elegant ideas.
• I'll let the community vote on the ideas in the comments, but ultimately I'm going to decide what I work on. Hopefully, if something doesn't get chosen, then this can be a great resource for other developers to get some ideas.
• I'm not going to setup an official "end of submission" date. We'll see what kind of community feedback we start getting and leave it up to everyone to decide what should be worked on and when we're ready to go.
• Whatever gets developed is completely open sourced and available to the community to download. Most of my plug-ins are MIT licensed and I think this should be the same.
• This is not a CONTEST. NO PRIZES WILL BE GIVEN!!! What you will get is accolades from the community and I think we will attach your name as the originator of the plug-in in the source code!
• And finally, my client work takes precedent. So if I say I'll have it done by a certain time and don't. Then don't hate, I'm probably working on something that pays the bills.

I think that covers all the bases. If you think I missed something let me know. If not, then what are you waiting for. Start posting your ideas below and lets get started!

My Commenting System Was Bonked

Sorry folks, I was having a problem with the Disqus commenting system on cjboco.com. It should be fixed now, but if anyone else has any problems, then please let me know. Sorry for the inconvenience!

MySQL We Have A Problem

Argh... So I wanted to update my internal server to the latest and greatest version of MySQL. I downloaded the nice Mac OS X ver. 10.6 (x86, 64-bit), DMG Archive installer package they have and low and behold, MySQL won't start-up!

Well, no need to worry. Seems to be an issue with the installer package. To see if you have the same problem I'm having, do the install and then fire up ye ole terminals and type:

sudo /usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server start
Password: XXXXXX

If you see a fun message that looks like this:

/usr/local/mysql/support-files/mysql.server: line 256: my_print_defaults: command not found
Starting MySQL
ERROR! Couldn't find MySQL server (./bin/mysqld_safe)

Then you have the same problem I'm having. Here's how you can fix it.