Today I finally broke down and wrote my own Greasemonkey script – now formally known as “The ASP.NET Forums Beautifier” for lack of a better name.

The Script Before and After:

Before – usually the ASP.NET Forums look like this:

After – with my script running in Greasemonkey we get this:

note: the greasemonkey icon, and complete lack of fluff / advertisements on the second screenshot.

Creating this script was simpler than I expected. It was a matter of skimming through an article on How to write Greasemonkey scripts, using Firebug’s JavaScript Console and Firefox’s Error Console to test my code (after all, Firefox is the new IDE, Firefox as an IDE), and an hour later, Viola! No more ads.

The YUI blog and Douglas Crockford in particular, have inspired my JavaScript renaissance. JavaScript is really interesting, it’s a functional, loosely typed programming language that uses prototype-base inheritance. Developing in JavaScript is a real treat from some of the more statically typed languages.

Download Greasemonkey and “The ASP.NET Forums Beautifier” for yourself. :)