For some reason I clicked the print button on my blog the other day. It opened up a PDF in the tab I was in. Well, I just didn't like that (sorry Ray).

I recently built a print feature for an AJAX heavy project at work. Since this project uses Spry, the detail you see doesn't exist until javascript renders it in the browser. So, I came up with a solution of opening another window and then pushing the rendered contents into it. The new window even has a print.css. So, although it's the same mark-up, it looks different.

If you want to see the code I wrote for work you can check it out here. Just drill all the way into a vehicle and click the print button on the right.

Anyway, I used the same idea to change the print functionality on my blog. I've posted the resulting code and instructions for download here.

If anyone uses it I would love to hear about it.

I was looking at the Twitter Badges that you can add to your site. I noticed that there was a JS implementation. I thought that would be cool because I could style it to match the rest of the site.

So, I created a new empty BlogCFC pod and pasted in the code that Twitter offered. Well, I have to say I was very un-impressed. It basically is only set up to display the current message and the time it was added. Except there's even a typo. So, it wasn't even showing the date.

After a little investigation, I got it to show the date, which turns out to be the raw date, not the "about x [min|hours|days]" that I was expecting.

Well, I took that as a challenge and began to build out similar functionality to the Flash Twitter badge in my JS Twitter badge.

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