Monday, June 30, 2003

HTML Mail and Outlook

Interesting, I'm doing a mailing (via a small vb script) and the html content I'm sending contains an image map. The links didn't work correctly in MS Outlook until included the whole image in an anchor (<a>) tag.

posted by Christopher @ 6:40 AM

Thursday, June 26, 2003

rss

ARRRGHHH! I just can't seem to get publishing correctly. I just did a tweak, hopefully that resolved it.

posted by Christopher @ 9:59 PM

Hummingbird

Planning the second iteration of our DocsFusion based precedent system. I'm pleased with the end result, but it's not the most elegant behind the scenes.
We're using the docs components to perform the full-text and profile searches, because of this we have to port some key metadata from the data warehouse to the document profiles within docs. Ugly denormilization, but effective.
Also, I wanted to you use the asp.net data grid. Accessing the docs components was easy enough, but I also wanted to re-use some of the cyberdocs asp pages. This meant passing state between asp classic and asp.net which is not directly allowed. I ended up writing variables to a cookie and retrieving them back and forth. Not optimal. But effective.

posted by Christopher @ 1:52 PM

Wednesday, June 18, 2003

Hierarchy

OK, I'm finally getting down to the nuts and bolts converting some of our more powerful
win32 analysis tools over to the web based precedent search system we have here. One of the more nagging questions is how to array a taxonomy of search terms like I would do in a treeview command.

MS teased us with the promise of a treeview control in asp.net. But then they denied support for the controls. A quick look and there a bit awkward to work with, and the whole 'we don't support' this stuff is scary.

A quick search revealed a great demo on DotNetJunkies. This is a great start... more news on my modifications to come.

posted by Christopher @ 9:52 PM

Thursday, June 12, 2003

Scramble time.

Got word today that the SEC has a new XML filing requirement.... Time to learn about the Edgar standard....

posted by Christopher @ 11:11 AM

Monday, June 09, 2003

The thing I like most about the Sunday New York Times...

is not reading it. I haven't since 9/12/01. Dave addresses this tangentially today. My reasoning may different. I just don't trust single sources of information any more. Nor do I have a huge amount of confidence for any mainstream media

Oh, I' don't miss it either.

posted by Christopher @ 5:42 AM

Friday, June 06, 2003

Menu problems?

Discovered Tigra Menus by SoftComplex this week. This is a very clean javascript menu application. An on-line interface guides you through initial setup, then you download your code and insert it in your web pages. The initial interface is very slow, but once you put the basics in you can get a good idea of what the source file looks like and generate your own.

posted by Christopher @ 5:42 AM

Sunday, June 01, 2003

Site Tester

If you're in an IT organization that's getting calls from the remote office complaining of slow internet access, this app can help you identify the problem before your users start calling. How's that for a one liner? I just put a version 1.0 of SiteTester out on my main site for download. I'm really interested to see if anyone has a use for this, or if there's a better way of solving the problem.


posted by Christopher @ 9:41 AM