Clean your text out with Suds.

A client copies & pastes from MS Word into your CMS and suddenly your lovingly hand-crafted HTML is full of stinking, invalid, word generated, formatting code. Eww.

The only way to avoid the problem was to paste the text into a plain text editor (like notepad.exe), copy the text from the plain text editor, and then paste the text again, this time into your CMS. A bit crappy.

With Suds just copy the text from Word, click the suds icon and bam, nice clean text ready to be pasted into your CMS. Awesome.

Download Suds.

I’ve committed the Suds’ source code to Github. I’m releasing it under the GPLv2 license.

Key:Value store.

Extending my dbSQLite class so that it functions as a Key:Value store. Perfect for storing user preferences, although I was a bit peeved to discover that SQLite doesn’t support ON DUPLICATE KEY UPDATE, hence the get within the set method.

For volatile storage just set this.db to null (line 6)

Anyone following my Github account will likely have deduced that I am currently writing an Adobe Air app. I decided on Air as Fluid.app and Prism both had crappy Database options.

But after reviewing the source for my App the only Air dependencies seem to be logging and SQLite. The logging will be removed when development is completed as is only for debugging at present, and the DB uses a wrapper which could easily become a DAL and also support WebSQL.

This is why I love new web technologies. I can use pretty much the exact same code and have it run on the desktop (Windows, Mac, Linux), in a browser, on a mobile device (iPhone/Android), or even on the iPad (anyone want to send me one to test it on?)

ALogger - Log to file in Adobe AIR. →

Just finished my Javascript port of KLogger so that it works with Adobe AIR.