Posts tagged “Programming”
Rotating Ad Banner
Great tutorial for beginners: Rotating Banner Ads using a Database
Scrolling Ticker Headline
After hours and hours of googling, I finally found the only javascript horizontal text scroller that doesn’t suck. If anyone knows of a better one, please let me know. While we all wait I’ll be re-coding this to accept input from an external database and building an ASP front-end for editing it …
MT 2.61
I finally bit the bullet and upgraded. Davidgagne.net has gone from a loose collection of random html files to a Blogger-powered site to a Greymatter-powered site to its current MovableType extravaganza-ness. It only took me about a year to make the jump from MT2.1 to MT2.61. That works out to about two decades in internet
Cookies
It just took me two hours of programming and slamming my head against the desk to realize that Cookies get saved according to the exact URL of the site. I kept trying to delete the cookies of domain.com when I needed to delete the cookies of www.domain.com. That is annoying.
SetupStream 2
SetupStream 2 gives you the possibility to create small, powerful and feature-rich Setup Wizards in modern, easy-to-use and user-friendly outlook. It is meant to be a serious alternative to commercial Installation Suites.
OOP Myths
Ironically, [Object-Oriented Programming] is sometimes billed as “better fitting the way people think”. Years of meditation and study to learn how to “think naturally”? I am thinking of setting up a $60-per-hour consultancy to teach sports fans to drink beer and belch in order to “optimize their recreational satisfaction”. link via webword
ASPModules.com
AspModules.com has some great tools for web developers. If you use Blogger as your content management system, you might be interested in the Adminimizer Toolbar. It lets you edit your blog WYSIWYG-style – right in your browser. Way cool.
New Languages
Brinkster is a free web host that supports ASP. You get 30 MB of space and no ads on your site, plus ASP 3.0 support, MS Access databases, a web-based file manager, and control of the ADO & FileSystemObject. How cool is that? There is a great article on / introduction to the syntactical differences
Send Entry
If you look at the little bit at the end of each of the entries here, you’ll notice something new. Yep. My first major hack of MovableType has been a success. You can now email an entry to anyone you want through a handy pop-up window. It’s just like the Yahoo! feature. Ben – the
SendEntry
<Montgomery Burns> Excellent! </Montgomery Burns> I’m about 75% done with my mt-sendentry.cgi development. Youshik has been a tremendous help with some of the trickier Perl bits and Ben is the man for being so cool about answering my eMails. I really hope I can finish working on it tonight so I can have v 0.1