I 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 readingI just created an account at http://freedns.afraid.org and then created a subdomain using one of their existing domains. Now ———— points to whatever system I want it to point to. It worked with my system at work and immediately showed up with my WAN address (router address, 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…
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…
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