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It is impossible to enjoy idling thoroughly unless one has plenty of work to do. There is no fun in doing nothing when you have nothing to do. Wasting time is merely an occupation then, and a most exhausting one. Idleness, like kisses, to be sweet must be stolen. - Jerome K. Jerome

Wednesday, January 09, 2008

Hacking Digg With Firebug and jQuery

This is an adaptation of a presentation that I gave while at Mashup Camp Boston. We're going to take an introductory look at the Firebug Firefox Extension and the jQuery JavaScript Library - combining the two to build a reusable bookmarklet that can manipulate Digg Posts and Comments.
Posted by Idler at 3:35 PM
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