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Scarecrow and Mrs. King was a TV show from way way back. For some reason, it came to mind right when I was typing the title of this post. Scarecrow was the code name for a spy. Mrs. King was a housewife. They spied on people and helped…
Continue readingI am really bad at keeping up with blogging. It’s not because absolutely no one reads this stuff. It is because I am lazy. Knowing I am lazy doesn’t help either. Damn is it hot in my office right now. I think that latte had more than just…
Continue readingStep 3. Well, this is really something like step 10. I didn’t post for a few days and now I have this running on the iPhone, and on the emulator seen here: I used tables to get the bubbles looking right and to automatically size themselves, within certain…
Continue readingStep 2 I have the images worked out for the outgoing content. Since I styled these by hand, I only set the classes properly for the one that appears complete in the image. I added a div inside of the cell that contains the text. I then gave…
Continue readingStep 1 I want to write PHP code that will read a log file of some sort and then create an HTML display for it. The display needs to look like an SMS text messaging system such as is seen on the iPhone. I only need the timestamps,…
Continue readingI have two new web coding/designing projects to work on. 1 A friend wanted a website designed to sell photos. I would think that there are sites that let you sell stuff that are very well designed and look appropriate for that sort of thing but maybe not….
Continue readingThe topics today are related to visual changes to my auto emailer program and background processing in a modal dialog box. Visual Changes The auto email program now sports a shiny new display. It looks very much like an SMS text message app on a smart phone. A…
Continue readingI thought that the “working” animation, like seen on smart phones and other similar devices, was neat showing up in the middle of my auto email program window but it didn’t look so good when the window is huge and when the window is full of status text….
Continue readingSMTP seems very slow. Each time someone sends a message to my auto email program, I need to send out two emails and maybe more. One email is to the sender to give them whatever response is appropriate. The other that is always sent is the log email…
Continue readingIt is interesting how the world has changed. For decades, the symbol that tells you to wait has been an hourglass. Sometimes a crazy person would use some sort of pocket watch symbol. Now, all of the sudden, a swirling thingy is it. It’s the thing to use…
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