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Google Calendar API Returns 403 Forbidden – A Quick Fix

OK, so I just noticed (rather late) that the Events view on the web site I look after isn’t working – it’s blank. After lots of trial and error – and then some Googling, the answer turns out to be that the V2 Google API I was using (Oh, is that what it is?) has Read More

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jQuery Plugins Site Problem Led Me To Rename Wiki Text to Wicked Text

I actually spotted it first on a Twitter post – the jQuery Plugins site had been deleted (explained here).  Crazy!  So much for my Wiki Text jQuery Plugin. However, the jQuery blog posts explained that they were hoping to move to a new model for publishing jQuery Plugins to their site – using GitHub and Read More

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Displaying Google Calendar Events on a Club Web Site

Well, it was good while it lasted… but now the v2.0 API this is based on has been partially deprecated.  I’ve started the job of migrating – but in the mean time I’ve done a quick fix described here. In this article I will explain how I present a list of events from Google Calendar Read More

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Wiki Text Version 0.3 Released

After a month and a half I’ve now released an updated version of the Wiki Text plugin.  This release adds Named Links, Horizontal Rules and Line Breaks.  Download it here Try it here (and see how fast it is!) Find out more New Features The following new features have been added to this version of Read More

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Handling XML Elements with Namespaces in jQuery

The whole point to writing the Wiki Text jQuery plugin was so that I could use it on the Thistle Society web site to enhance the description text from Google Calendar events shown on the Events page. So, I was a bit irritated that it didn’t work when I tried it.  Most of it turned Read More

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Wiki Text Plugin for jQuery v0.2 Released

I’ve updated the plugin to resolve a couple of small errors and add a tiny bit more functionality. Download it here Try it here (and see how fast it is!) Find out more Changes The following changes have been made to this version of Wiki Text: List item text can now be wrapped by indenting Read More

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Wiki Text Plugin for jQuery v0.1 Released

I would like to announce the first release of a jQuery plugin which converts Wiki text to HTML. Download it here Try it here (and see how fast it is!) Find out more Why a Wiki Text Plugin? As you can see by my recent articles about Google Calendar (and there’s more to come) I Read More

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