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AJAX is Easy

The title is not a generality. I mean it in the context of having some JavaScript code to do POST operations and get the results. I also have some PHP code that gets the POST request and creates a response. It too me only a few minutes to…

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MFC App to Windows Service

I converted my auto email program to a Windows service. Windows services are interesting because they work well when they are console programs but an MFC based program that has a main window is tricky. Since the auto email program was an MFC application with a main window,…

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Battlefield 3

I don’t normally blog about computer games other than those that I am designing to want to design. This is an exception because I have some comments about Battlefield 3 and I think it is worth making a note about them. Battlefield 3 is a first person shooter…

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Back from Vacation

Although I did no real work of any sort and have no new information to share, I do think a post is in order: I’m back from two weeks of vacation. It seemed like more than that for some reason. I plan on working only a little more…

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Styled Upload Button in HTML Form

Most of an HTML document can be designed (styled) using CSS. This allows designers to apply their own look and feel to everything on the page. Everything except for the HTML input element used for file uploads. The file upload element will generally look like this, although it…

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Renaming an FTP Folder

First; is “Folder” really the new “Directory”? I never know which to write these days. Second; don’t set up an FTP server and and then use the file system to change the name of a users home directory. The FTP server won’t know about the name change. Maybe…

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State of My Art — Safari Web App

I wanted to publish some pictures of my Safari IOS web app for the auto emailer program. The web app is a web page that mimics the IOS user interface and is a remote user interface for the auto email responder program I wrote for Windows. The original…

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Fixed a bug today

I don’t have anything new going on with my latest home projects. I have been working a bit on the auto email web interface, the interface that looks like a native IOS app, but nothing has been worth reporting yet. I fixed a bug at work today. The…

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OSX OpenGL Cocoa App?

I have a Mac Mini that I got for free. It does not have an Intel processor so I cannot upgrade the OS and cannot do any IOS development. I can do OSX development. My plan is to write a program that uses Cocoa and OpenGL version 2.x….

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AJAX and Multipart/Form-Data

I’m writing a lot of code most evenings. Here is some code I wrote in JavaScript to submit an AJAX request using multipart/form-data encoding. This is better than the more typical application/x-www-form-urlencoded encoding because data does not need to be reformatted if it contains things that are not…

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