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New Feature

Posted: Tuesday, November 14th, 2006 @ 10:31 am in Technology, Daily Life | No Comments »

You can now chat with me from this site!
If you’ll look to the right of the main page, at the top of the sidebar, you’ll notice a new icon/link with the funny little word ‘Meebo’. I discovered Meebo a few months ago and have been using it quite a bit lately. It is […]

Update to the JavaScript Cookie Library

Posted: Saturday, May 20th, 2006 @ 7:37 pm in Technology | No Comments »

Several months ago, I wrote a JavaScript library for cookie interaction. I have now updated it to version 1.1.
Check out the new Cookie Library (cookieLib v1.1) which now resides the jimAuld JS namespace and has a method for testing whether a browser accepts cookies.

Fantastic programming

Posted: Tuesday, May 16th, 2006 @ 8:15 pm in Technology | No Comments »

My buddy Dustin, a Yahoo! developer, has written a version of Tetris in Javascript. Not only does it function beautifuly, but the graphic design is pretty slick too.
If you know much about me, you know that web developing is my passion. And within web development, JavaScript is my true love. I only […]

Gettin’ Naked!

Posted: Sunday, April 2nd, 2006 @ 8:55 pm in Technology | 7 Comments »

That’s right, on April 5th the Auldridges are gettin’ NAKED! At least, the site is going naked. In honor of the first annual Naked Day, started by Dustin Diaz, the Auldridge site will shed it’s CSS.
What’s the point? Well you can read more about it in the links I put in the […]

Update to the Generic Ajax Library

Posted: Thursday, November 10th, 2005 @ 3:29 pm in Technology | 1 Comment »

Just making notice that the Generic AJAX Library I wrote has now been documented more properly. Maybe it will make some more sense to a few folks now.

JavaScript Cookie Library

Posted: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2005 @ 12:39 pm in Technology | 9 Comments »

Technorati Tags : JavaScript, Cookie, Code, Library
Close on the heels of my Generic AJAX Library I have written a cookie handling library.
For those not aware, a cookie is a small bit of data that a developer can leave on your PC to ‘rememember’ things. This technology was enabled because of the stateless nature of […]

Generic AJAX Library

Posted: Tuesday, October 25th, 2005 @ 2:23 pm in Technology | 5 Comments »

Technorati Tags : JavaScript, XML, AJAX
[bad irish accent–for some reason] Ah was gonna keep this to meself and see where it took me, but Ah just get too excited and have to share with ye lads. [/bad irish accent]
Ever since a discussion at Christian Web Masters on Apr 5 2005, I have been trying […]

Testing Qumana

Posted: Friday, October 21st, 2005 @ 2:39 pm in Technology | 2 Comments »

As I get into the real, low-down blogging scene I find more and more things to learn. Blogging, as many of you know, is such a hot thing on the Internet that a whole new set of technologies is rising up around it. From services like Technorati to this new application I am […]

Photo Album Online

Posted: Thursday, October 6th, 2005 @ 1:41 pm in Technology, Daily Life | No Comments »

I installed PhotoPress today so that we can start getting pictures online as well. I like PhotoPress because it ties right into WordPress, and allows us to place our images in the album, as well as right into blog entries.
The drawbacks to it are that it lacks some things that, quite frankly, it should […]