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I'm constantly after small, annoying tools to do things like breakdown a bitmask into components, or HTML Encode some text, or test some regular expressions.
We have a lot - a lot - of really smart guys and girls and I was wondering if any of you would be interested in posting tools as articles. The tools would allow inline javascript but would have to be self contained. The article itself would be short on talk and big on action, though a thorough explanation is certainly welcome to be shown under the main tool.
Peer review of an Online Tools section would be very, very tight, and we'd have to put in some automatic checks for things like accessing cookies or calling remote services, but on the whole it should be fairly straightforward.
Any takers?
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excellent idea! it'd be nice to be able to pick from a palette of small tools usable directly on the site.
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There should be an online tool for creating them...
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So these would all work within the site, thus all being javascript ? That sounds awesome, I'd be up for that.
HTML encoding is already built in, isn't it ?
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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whatdya paying?
bryce
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Respect and admiration.
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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are you out of your mind?
have you not seen the people on this site?
bryce
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I didn't say it was WORTH it.... 
Christian Graus
My new article series is all about SQL !!!
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well for chris it is 
Bryce
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I am actually playing around with several jQuery plugins for small things, like automatically populating and refreshing dropdowns for country/province per example, but isn't that what tips/tricks are already here?
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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The difference here being these tools would work directly on the CP page for that article.
No need for somebody to host a demo on some other server and link to it from his/her article.
That's why Chris mentioned the peer review thing. These articles will have to be closely monitored
lest somebody try to misuse this feature.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
modified 3-Jan-14 2:58am.
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In that case some sample JSON datasets, provided by CodeProject will probably be very helpful, some "Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetuer " of data
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Chris Maunder wrote: I was wondering if any of you would be interested in posting tools as articles.
Sounds like a great idea I'm all for it. 
What is allowed or not has to be carefully considered as to not reduce the available functionality to much.
What about having a mandatory section sitting on top of the article, that has to fully disclose what is stored where and all paths my data and/or personal information may take. That's just my first thought on it there may be others coming up with something better.
Regards,
— Manfred
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I'm guessing you're thinking javascript but yes, I'd be interested.
speramus in juniperus
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I already told you about my dream of automatically generating the Table of Contents for an article, didn't I?
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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That sounds great - However, I want one with JavaScript which can be used directly in the Article Editor. 
Veni, vidi, caecus | Everything summarizes to Assembly code
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Definitely, I'm interested in something like this being established. I cart my little code segments from one job to the next as I'm sure my fellow developers do. It would be fantastic to compare how I'm approaching a common problem with other solutions. And yes, before you ask - on occasion, I live on this site.
CodingChris (Wichita, KS)
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This sort of raises two things
First is just a set of tools to use (as I was suggesting) that are more about "where can I find a tool to quickly do X'.
The second is about "where can I stash my code snippets". This is a slightly different exercise - but definitely something that is also easy to add if there's demand.
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Ah - fair enough. I'm voting for the first thing. With regard to "stashing code snippets", not so much. I was thinking of something more collaborative. Upon review, this site already does this, I think.
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Seems like GitHub is more set up for collaborative snippets, but I don't use that hippie crap.
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