March 8, 2009

stop hiding

September 5, 2008

rich and rp wanna do a dinner

April 23, 2008

Mail Thread Deletions

It took me awhile to set up the private messages between to users to act like threaded bulletin posts. Once I got it working, it took me a minute to figure out how to allow deletion of a threaded message, if the other user wanted to keep it alive.

Eventually, I solved it using folders, ie. inbox, trash, etc. But I almost lost my head over it. 

April 5, 2008

Apple iPhone "Favicon" Home Screen

Today, my wife showed me that she could save a website favorite to her homescreen of her iPhone and that there is an icon that represents the site. I had initially thought it was the favicon.ico file that displays. However, after some research, I came upon the following line:  

<link rel="apple-touch-icon" href="http://www.yourdomain.com/path/to/image.png" />
April 4, 2008

A picture is worth a thousand syntax words

Ive been working and working on the photo upload section. Now, I have allowed users  to upload up to 10 images. Although, I did set some size restrictions as well as some length/width maximums. I didn’t want the uploaded photo to be taking over the whole page.

So, what I decided to do was upon uploading, the script would resize the image to 500 pixel (on its longest side). In addition, it would create a 50x50 thumbnail image to be used throughout the site as friend avatars or the profile buddy icon.

 The lightbox area is to display all the images at one time with pagination, of course. Upon clicking an image, you would get a larger version of the photo. There is also flickr-type navigation for previous and next images.

April 2, 2008

Feed Functionality Somewhat Working

I have the feed post functionality working for a few user actions. In addition, users can now change their email address with email verification.

Maintaining My Cars Project

I am currently working on a new website to keep my cars’ maintenance history up-to-date. One day while taking my wife’s car to the service shop, the mechanic asked me when the last time the timing belt was changed. I thought about it… and I had no clue. Later, I came to find out, she had changed it at the dealer a few months prior.

So, I ended up paying for something twice… and so ottokeep.com was born.

Private Messaging Working!

Finally got the private messaging framework built on my website