Field Guide to Programmers

First, a big thanks to Ian Tyndall for supplying the code for the update. Here’s a snippet from Ian’s email to me:
I recently picked up scal and started putting it to use. During this, I’ve made some minor enhancements that you might be interested in.
I’ve removed the dependency on Builder and replaced it with [...]

I wouldn’t say I’m a heavy user of Dashboard, but I really like the idea of creating widgets. Widgets are also used in the iPhone and iPod Touch, so if I ever make the switch [crave] there’s no doubt I’ll want to develop some useless toys for my $$$ toy.
Since I’ve [...]

When you create the scal object, there is a parameter called update_id that you use to reference the HTML element you wish to update with the “clicked” day value. By default, this puts in a raw Javascript Date object. However, instead of providing the id of an HTML element you can also reference [...]

Scal is designed to be a basic Javascript calendar. However, a suggestion came in about adding a planner-like function that kept day information intact as a user scrolled through the months. I thought that was a good idea and so I put it into a release.