http://www.ceakr.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Wed, 22 Jul 2009 19:17:31 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en A lot of new features have been added to DaftMonkey, my Greasemonkey script for Firefox and the property search website Daft.ie.  You can get it at http://www.chofter.com/apps?n=daftmonkey The video below shows its current features. http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=53 I've recently added a new application to Chofter Apps called DaftMonkey.  DaftMonkey is an extension for FireFox that makes working with the Irish property site Daft.ie far quicker and efficient. Check it out at http://www.chofter.com/apps?n=daftmonkey or check out the video I recorded for it below. http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=51 A cool new widget for selecting the search category has been added to Chofter.com, the next-gen search portal.  Instead of simple HTML buttons or links, users of Firefox, Internet Explorer and Opera now see a standalone widget that has a nice animation when selecting the category. For those interseted in the ... http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=49 The Technical search category has been a bit underpowered for a while now, so it was definitely time to strengthen it.  So...... the following search sources have now been added, all of which are programming language references: PHP Java .NET Dojo Ajax Toolkit Prototype Ajax Toolkit For example, a search for "array" will bring up each ... http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=44 Chofter.com is now available in Spanish and Estonian!  Many thanks to Karim and Janne Heredia for their translation efforts. http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=41 Today two features I'm very happy with were added to Chofter, the next-generation search engine. 오늘 두가지의 새로운 기능이 Chofter, 차세대 검색 엔진,에 업데이트 되었습니다. The first feature is the Context Menu. A new orange icon is placed next to search results which, when clicked, gives you list of actions you can ... http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=36 I've managed to knock off about 30% of the download size of Chofter.com by doing two things: Using the newly Dojo 1.2 toolkit hosted by AOL Removing code duplication. Look at it move!! http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=34 The look and feel of Chofter.com has been completely upgraded. The first few releases of Chofter.com had a look that I wasn't too fond of.  This was mostly due to the fact that I was concentrating on the technical aspects of making the site work (I'm an engineer after all), and ... http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=26 Chofter.com now has support for multiple languages.  For the moment, English, French and German are supported, with more languages to follow. The visual layout of the screen has slightly changed also, with the search bar being moved to the centre of the screen when the page is first loaded.  This is ... http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=24 Chofter.com has just been upgraded with a number of significant performance improvements.  These were mainly targetted at fixing speed issues in Internet Explorer, whose JavaScript engine is a bit on the snail-like side.  Users of Firefox or Safari probably won't notice a huge difference, but for users of Internet Explorer ... http://www.ceakr.com/blog/?p=22