XMLHttpRequest possibilities

As it seems everyone is doing, lately I’ve been playing with XMLHttpRequest. The odd part about all this is the functionality has existed for many years in MS IE (since 5.0), and in the Mozilla based browsers for awhile, but only with the advent of such web apps as Google Suggest has it become the [...]

Publishing Home Page

It is now official, my home page tel-cor.com is being managed by Blog:CMS. While a few rough spots exist, it is functionally complete. The time and effort provided training with Blog:CMS. Like most Free software, Blog:CMS suffers from inconsistent documentation. This proved a challenge in learning and drawing together the various bits of knowledge. Thankfully [...]

Writing a site engine

At DevShed you can find many articles about all spects of development, especially web development. Recently they published a series of articles on building a site engine. The five articles do a nice job of walking a person through many of the basics, with some reasons here and there why some choices are made. Some [...]

Gecko DOM oddity

While writing some DOM parsing code for client-side form validation, I encountered an oddity with recent gecko based browsers. Rather than displaying a Javascript alert box, I’m creating textnodes and appending them to an existing DIV. The text contains statements detailing the errors with the form, and instructions to fix the errors. Intially I hid [...]

Bad webmail – no excuse

In this day and age (lovely common phrase, isn’t it ;) ) it is inexcusable that an Internet Company (read: Web Host, ISP, etc) provide an atrocious webmail application. With the likes of squirrelmail, IlohaMail and more, there is very little to excuse such companies. However we find companies such as 1and1 hosting doing just [...]