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Posts about web applications
I went to an interview and basically ended up telling the guy that the company was not for me. But I did learn something:
I found out how to track an email being opened, pretty cool trick, ready for this awesome trick?
When the email gets created in an app, a small 1px img is saved on the server, a guid.gif, transparent gif. guid meaning like der35d288d5jsk32.gif
This gif is added to the email address and when the email is opened, the gif is pulled from the server, and on the server the folder has a listener and when that gif is requested...
A lot of new additions to GoYoDeo have been going up. http://www.goyodeo.com Check out the website, doing some cool stuff over there.
It is in Beta so let me know, as one of it's founders, I can get some pull on features or problems you are having!
I was messing around with the checkbox list want simulate a dropdown list with checkboxes in it. A buddy of mine said to try the checkbox list inside a div with scroll bars. Well I did not like the scroll bar on the bottom (horizontal). So I found this:
<div style="width:300px;height:100px;overflow-x: hidden;overflow-y:scroll;overflow:-moz-scrollbars-vertical !important;">
CHECKBOX LIST HERE
</div>
Note the !important is a css hack to tell the browser which tag to use depending upon Firefox or IE.... Cool at any rate, works like a champ... Then when a user "checks" the checkbox for one or more selections, you can stick the list in...
Baylor found a pretty cool freeware site where he found his animation software. I do have to says guys, he's losing his interest in that freeware software, so he is installing a trial version of FLASH right now and getting ready to tackle it....
http://www.snapfiles.com/freeware/
I have a good friend of mine setup a site I think is pretty cool and I am excited for him... Check out his app he wrote:
http://forwardprogress-edu.com/
I downloaded and installed the Express edition to the C# Visual Studio 2008. Wow, pretty cool, however, you will have to give up the SQL 2000 data connection on strongly typed datasets if you use the C# edition for windows apps.
If you use the Web Developer edition you will be cool! SQL Server connection IS included...
I highly recommend that you download it from ASP.NETÂ (you will have to have ASP.NET 3.5 installed!)
Later guys!