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I’m on a roll with blog posts today. I just downloaded the TextFree SMS messaging app from the iTunes app store. I have an iPod Touch (or iTouch for short) and I wanted to get text messages on it to test a messaging system I’m building for the…
Continue readingUpdate I worked on the auto email program a bit at lunch. I cleaned up my code by moving specific operations that take more than two or three lines of code into functions. This makes the main loop easier to read since the function names are a bit…
Continue readingI have started writing an email program that is fully automated. The intent is to let people send emails and text messages to any email address at my domain and get a reply that is appropriate to their message. For instance, if you were to send “hidden” (not…
Continue readingI looked around and there are a few different ways to get line numbers to show up in code that is posted on a blog or other web page. The most important thing about posting code on a web page is that it can be cut and pasted…
Continue readingI was working on my kayaking web page and came up with a new feature. I wanted to allow the URL to include a parameter for highlighting a specific route. “Highlighting” the route means the map will be zoomed in and panned to the location of the route…
Continue readingAt work, I do a little bit of web design because there is a web interface to our product. Customers buy a computer from us that comes with Apache and a website for accessing our product remotely. I wanted to improve the site by making footers stick to…
Continue readingI did some work on the kayaking trips web page. The page shows a list of routes I took on various paddling outings. The page looks something like this: Updated Kayaking Page This is not a log of all trips but is instead a list of routes I’ve…
Continue readingBoat The boat is running. We spent the entire afternoon yesterday cleaning inside and out. A test drive showed no serious leaks and the drive train runs smoothly. The engine stalled a few times before it was warmed up. Rolling Ball Sculpture I am still working now and…
Continue readingtr { overflow: hidden; } is bad. It turns out that this simple CSS option causes rows cells that span rows to overwrite or hide content in the cells that they span. Unfortunately, I can’t create a simple example. The page where I saw this uses an external…
Continue readingMy previous blog entry has a link to another site. It is not just a link but is actually a form that is submitted to the other site. This caused an interesting problem during implementation. These blog entries have HTML enabled so I can do some formatting and…
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