April 2008
6 posts
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.
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" />
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...
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…...
Private Messaging Working!
Finally got the private messaging framework built on my website