Counting sub-string occurrence in a string

Once upon a time.. I need a way to count number of occurrence of certain sub-string (not exclusively words) inside a string.

For example, string "Aya Hirano is the best seiyuu in the world! She was mostly known as her role as Haruhi." I wanted to know how many times string "he" occurred in there.
The result should be 4, 2 in the, 1 in She and 1 in her.

By using scan method we can do that easily:

class String
  def substr_count(pattern)
    self.scan(pattern).length
  end
end

"Aya Hirano is the best seiyuu in the world! She was mostly known as her role as Haruhi.".substr_count("he") # -> 4
"Aya Hirano is the best seiyuu in the world! She was mostly known as her role as Haruhi.".substr_count(/(!|\.|\?)/) # -> 2 -> counting sentences? :D

Too simple to become share-worthy article I guess.. :P

Aborting AJAX Request

For some functions like autocomplete, usually we send ajax request whenever user stop typing (by using timeout), but if the request takes a long time to finish, user might sending another request while the previous one isn't done yet, in worst case scenario this might cause the requests complete order messed up therefore the result will be invalid.

We can prevent this by aborting previous ajax request before sending a new one.
XMLHttpRequest object have abort() function we can use for that purpose, documented here:
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XMLHttpRequest#abort

in the following jquery script, i have a 2 text fields sending ajax request onkeyup that always completed in 2 seconds and adding the inputted text in the result div, the first one will have stackable ajax request, and the other one will prevent ajax request stacking by using abort

cookie operation functions

function setCookie(c_name,value,exdays){
  var exdate=new Date();
  exdate.setDate(exdate.getDate() + exdays);
  var c_value=escape(value) + ((exdays==null) ? "" : "; expires="+exdate.toUTCString());
  document.cookie=c_name + "=" + c_value;
}

function getCookie(c_name){
  var i,x,y,ARRcookies=document.cookie.split(";");

  for (i=0;i<ARRcookies.length;i++){
    x=ARRcookies[i].substr(0,ARRcookies[i].indexOf("="));
    y=ARRcookies[i].substr(ARRcookies[i].indexOf("=")+1);
    x=x.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,"");
    if (x==c_name){
      return unescape(y);
    }
  }
}

function removeCookie(c_name){
  setCookie(c_name, '', -1);
}

international saimoe league voting

my voting result:

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