SMTP 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…
Continue readingI’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 readingI’m testing Windows Live Writer to see how it works with my blog. The preview that looks like my Blog is very cool although the real test will be using it for writing a real blog entry. Oh, wait, I’m writing a real blog entry now. Testing in…
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 readingThis is a copy of a post I made on paddling.net. This is a not-too-short trip report. It is about paddling along the coast and then watching as my inexperienced friend decide to catch a wave or two. We started at Mission Bay in San Diego. We paddled…
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…
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