FireSSH plugin for Firefox

While scanning through my news feeds this morning I found a cool plugin for Firefox called FireSSH that, as the name alludes too, allows you to SSH to a host from your web browser.  Once the plugin is installed you can paste an SSH address in the url bar and go.

Now I just need to find something like this for Chrome.

Creating Javascript arrays on the fly

The need to build a Javascript array is pretty non-existent since many scripting engines (or at least the ones I use) can natively return objects in JSON.  However, if for some reason you cannot get your data back as JSON I whipped up a quick example of how it can be done.  This is more a note for myself, but maybe someone will find it useful.

First we take the data that we already have available in ColdFusion and build the Javascript array.  In our Javascript we create a new variable and set it to the value ColdFusion has built for us.  Below is the code:

<cfscript>
 dataString = "";
 // Build an array of people to play with
 people = arrayNew(1);
 people[1].name = "Jim";
 people[1].hairColor = "Brown";
 people[1].eyeColor = "Brown";
 people[2].name = "John";
 people[2].hairColor = "Black";
 people[2].eyeColor = "Blue";
 people[3].name = "Jane";
 people[3].hairColor = "Blonde";
 people[3].eyeColor = "Green";
 // The "important" stuff (tm)
 jsArray = "[";
 for(y = 1; y lte 3; y = y + 1){
  dataString = listAppend(dataString, "{ name: '#people[y].name#', hairColor: '#people[y].hairColor#', eyeColor: '#people[y].eyeColor#' }");
 }
 jsArray = jsArray & dataString;
 jsArray = jsArray & "]";   
</cfscript>
<cfoutput>
<script type="text/javascript">
 var peopleArray = #jsArray#;
 function dumpArray( obj ){
  for(var i = 0; i < obj.length; i++){
   for(j in obj[i]){
    document.write('<strong>' + j + ':</strong> ' + obj[i][j] + '<br />');
   }
   document.write('<br />');
  }
 }
 dumpArray(peopleArray);
</script>
</cfoutput>