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Now for some quick GreaseMonkey spew, recorded without any effort to actually see what's up in the community or reading any FAQs:

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I've also got a few ideas I'd like to record and pursue for future GreaseMonkey endeavors:

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I've suddenly realized that a lot of the things I wanted to do with Agent Frank are possible with GreaseMonkey. Also, I wonder how long it'll be before I get sucked into further FireFox extension hacking.

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\n\n\n", "body": "Now for some quick GreaseMonkey spew, recorded without any effort to actually see what's up in the community or reading any FAQs:\r\n\r\n* I want to separate script code into reusable modules.\r\n* That said, am I an [Architecture Astronaut][astro] when I can't get more than 10 minutes into a quick project without already starting to digress into building a *reusable framework*?\r\n* Is it wrong that I felt like I was working in Perl again when I wrote [that script][script]?\r\n* That said, I wish JavaScript had either multi-line quotes ala Python or Perl heredoc syntax.\r\n* Doing some twisty regex search-and-replace in Vi lets you do a lot of refactoring / recoding damage to source code in no time flat.\r\n* Can I just say how nice it is to not worry about other browsers when coding?\r\n\r\nI've also got a few ideas I'd like to record and pursue for future GreaseMonkey endeavors:\r\n\r\n* Record the URL of all form submissions via XMLHTTPRequest to a remote server, with blog comment forms in mind. Track changes on those URLs. Notify me via Atom feed when new comments arrive in places where I posted comments.\r\n* Clean up and abstract that magic form thing I did into a more general way to make all kinds of magic textarea forms. (More microformats? .sig files for LiveJournal responses? /usr/bin/banner for annoying blog comments?)\r\n* Revive [Third Voice][tvoice] in GreaseMonkey style. Subscribe to arbitrary REST API'ed annotation servers, fetch & aggregate annotations for current URL via XMLHTTPRequest, build cute floating stickies with rude comments from friends.\r\n* Auto-ROT13 en/decoder ring, because there's a need for that.\r\n* Script which redirects all links to books on Amazon.com to point at my new book. I will install this on all computers at CompUSA and the Apple Store.\r\n\r\nI've suddenly realized that a lot of the things I wanted to do with [Agent Frank][afrank] are possible with GreaseMonkey. Also, I wonder how long it'll be before I get sucked into further FireFox extension hacking.\r\n\r\n[afrank]: http://www.decafbad.com/twiki/bin/view/Main/AgentFrank\r\n[tvoice]: http://wired-vig.wired.com/news/business/0,1367,42803,00.html\r\n[astro]: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000018.html\r\n[script]: http://www.decafbad.com/2005/06/magic_hcalendar.user.js\r\n\r\nshortname=further_greasemonkey\r\n\r\n
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