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My wife's car, a 2002 Ford Taurus, intermittently shuts off. It's as if someone turns off the key. The lights, radio, air conditioner and dashboard instruments turn off. Pull the car to the side of the road, turn the ignition off then restart the car and everything is fine until the next time it happens. We've had the car at the Ford dealer three times and they look at the computer, which doesn't return any error codes, so they say that nothing is wrong with the car. I talked to Ford customer service and they say the same thing, nothing is wrong with the car! The dealer drove the car 30 miles and since it didn't fail, everything is okay. Yet this has happened to my wife three times and to my stepson one time where he was almost rear ended. The last time I left the car with them four days and they still couldn't find the problem.

My wife says that we should get a bumper sticker that says, "Car may stop suddenly, but Sunrise Ford says everything is okay". Right now I believe that the car is unsafe to drive. What has happened to the diagnostic capabilities of automobile mechanics? There has to be another way to diagnose what appears to be an electrical problem other than the computer. I just want the car fixed. Does anyone have a suggestion?

Tuesday, March 4th, 2008 12:54:14 PM in  Life | Comments (3)

Back in August 2007, Jake Howlett introduced a Web Session class for Domino Agents. I liked it a lot and saw the potential for reducing the amount of time to create web query open, web query save and web agents. I write a lot of web agents and often need to get query string, cookie and even form data. These items were missing from Jake's Web Session class. Also, the Web Session class required the programmer to instantiate the class when you wanted to use it. I thought that if you include the class in your agent you will want to use it. With that in mind, the Initialize function in the script library now instantiates a global web variable. I've added methods to get query string, cookie and form data items. With the advice of a co-worker I also protected the class variables by making them private and adding get methods for each variable. The only variables that I couldn't do this with were the lists that store query, cookie and form data information.

Continue Reading "WebSession Agent Class..."

Monday, December 24th, 2007 11:00:00 AM in  Domino  Web Development | Comments (2)

Update: 2008 Feb 14 - Added support for Vista 64 per Goran Miskovic's comment.

For those of you that don't know what the DOMContentLoaded event can do for you, here's a brief description.

The DOMContentLoaded event allows you to add behavior or change the HTML of a page after the HTML has loaded and before the onload event which happens after the complete page, including images has loaded. This allows you to add menu, tree behavior, AJAX functionality or anything else without having to wait for all items on a page to load. You may have experienced the need for a DOMContentLoaded event on a page that includes drop down menus or a tabbed interface which doesn't work until all images have loaded. Using the DOMContentLoaded event allows you to add the behavior before images and objects have loaded.

When I originally added the DOMContentLoaded event handler to Dean Edwards' addEvent function, I didn't provide a way to handle calls to it after the DOMContentLoaded event handler ran. If a developer called addEvent(window, "DOMContentLoaded", myFunction) after the DOMConentLoaded event ran, the passed function would never run. This version fixes the problem so that even if you call addEvent for the DOMContentLoaded event and the DOMContentLoaded event handler has already run, it will run your function.

The previous addDOMLoadEvent function would simply add the passed function to an array of functions which would be handled by the DOMContentLoadedInit function on the DOMConentLoaded event.

Continue Reading "DOMContentLoaded for Browsers, Part IV..."

Thursday, October 25th, 2007 08:17:31 PM in  Web Development | Comments (2)

My land line cost around $60.00USD a month and I was tired of paying that much money for a service we rarely used. We wanted a "family" phone but didn't want to pay what we had been paying. I have been using Skype on my computer for about three years and have been happy with the improved quality of the service, so we decided to go with Skype. A couple of weeks ago, I bought a Netgear Skype phone.

The Skype web site is pretty easy to use if you're going to download their software or purchase Skype Out. However, if you want to find out what you need to setup a Skype phone, you're in trouble. The information is very difficult to find. I finally bought Skype Pro for $36.00USD that gave me a $30.00USD credit for Skype In. I bought Skype In with the credit for $30.00USD and finally bought Skype Out for $29.95USD for a total of $95.95USD for a year of phone service.

The service is very good with excellent voice quality. I can't make 911 calls, but I can use my Cell Phone if I need to make a 911 call. So far the only problem I've had is accidentally hitting the off button when on a call.

Monday, October 1st, 2007 09:10:41 PM in  Family  Miscellaneous | Comments (1)

Update: 2007 Oct 25 - DOMContentLoaded Event for Browsers, Part IV has been created that adds a fix for calling DOMContentLoaded after the DOMContentLoaded event has occurred. Please check it out.

The DOMContentLoaded event allows you to add behavior or change the HTML of a page after the HTML has loaded and before the onload event which happens after the complete page, including images has loaded. This allows you to add menu, tree behavior, AJAX functionality or anything else without having to wait for all items on a page to load. You may have experienced the need for a DOMContentLoaded event on a page that includes drop down menus or a tabbed interface which doesn't work until all images have loaded. Using the DOMContentLoaded event allows you to add the behavior before images and objects have loaded.

Continue Reading "DOMContentLoaded for Browsers, Part III..."

Tuesday, July 10th, 2007 09:47:14 PM in  Web Development | Comments (5)