On September 4th 2006 the world lost a famed and intrepid animal lover, Steve Irwin. Soon after, the Internet was abuzz with the news of his tragic death. Checking the news on the next day, during my lunch hour, I scanned some of the stories surrounding the circumstances of his death and this is one — Continue reading »
HTML Forms, Part 3
📆 February 4, 2007
Click here to read Part 2 The following is a simple example of an HTML form: <form method="post" action="page.php">Name: <input type="text" name="Name"><br>City: <input type="text" name="City"><br><input type="submit" value="Submit"></form> This basic segment is placed inside an HTML page and when users browse to that page, they generally see something like this: Name: City: The user is expected — Continue reading »
HTML Forms, Part 2
📆 January 10, 2007
Click here to read Part 1 There are really many steps that a browser goes through to display a web page or post some data to it. For the purposes of this discussion, a simplified process consists of a request and a response. The browser makes a request to a server for a particular page, — Continue reading »
HTML Forms, Part 1
📆 December 26, 2006
My first experience with the World Wide Web about 13 years ago was in school using NCSA Mosaic running on Sun SPARCstation hosts. Mosaic was the original graphical Web browser from which all modern Web browsers today can claim their common ancestry. It was a giant leap from text-based applications such as Usenet readers that — Continue reading »
Gmail Mail Fetcher
📆 December 11, 2006
A colleague of mine sent me a note today regarding a new addition to Gmail, Google's free email account. It's called mail fetcher and it allows a person to import mail from other email accounts using the POP protocol. It's a trivial feature which other services such as Yahoo and Hotmail have had for years, — Continue reading »
Give a few Sats