Oh, the really neat thing is I’ve got a few jobs through www.getafreelancer.com lately. Every one of them has been a fellow believer, and the last one was another music pastor! It’s so much nicer working with fellow believers (when they’re not cheap!). It’s like a big family.

Jason

It wouldn’t be such a big deal if I did what lots of other programmers do: multiple files to run a program. But I like everything consolidated into one file, so I have to use lots of brain-cells to figure out how the server will know what it’s supposed to do.

I’ve spent a few hours and fixed up FileCABINET so that it has an integrated shopping cart. It’s cookie based, much better than what was there before. People won’t lose things from their cart like was happening before. Maybe more sales will result. Here’s hoping.

I also have changed the text links to image links— but not sure I really like that yet. It does increase download times for the page.

I used IE’s _search window (a special pane that opens on the left side of the window). I’m curious to know how various browsers handle this. Austin, that’s a challenge for you: try to fill up a cart at Intelliscript.net and tell me what happens.

I’ve been SO BUSY with work lately. It’s good, and it’s bad (for my back).

Night night.

Jason

Last night I finally figured out the code to sort this multidimensional array on any column! Ugh, that was months in coming. What it means is that I added a new field to the database called sort (different than order) which displays the scripts in the order of your choice. This is nice if you want to put one script at the top of the list for a few days.

Next is to develop the cookie based shopping cart instead of the query string cart I currently use.

Then I’m focusing on integrating the FAQ Engine script into FileCABINET so that Frequently Asked Questions can be generated online by users instead of through the current mail-me-using-a-webform method. Then I can order, respond to, delete, ignore etc these questions as I like.

Gotta love programming. That reminds me, Law & Order programming is almost complete and looks like it’s going to be AWESOME.

~Jason

I created a couple of PAD files (for NotationMachine and ServiceBuilder) using a Windows program, and it worked like a charm. It got me thinking too… what if I made the FileCABINET software I wrote automatically generate PAD files!

It meant I had to learn a little more XML, but I was up for the challenge, and it paid off! Now every file in my downloads on Intelliscript.net has it’s own PAD file, and it’s created automatically every time the XML is called for. You simply add the script’s ID number to the URL followed by .xml and FileCABINET does the rest.

For example, FileCABINET’s unique ID is 23, so

http://www.intelliscript.net/FileCABINET.pl/23.xml

I’m starting to feel a little cocky!

~Jason

I Finally had a brainwave last night about how to sync our Outlook church calendar with the getChurch.org web site. It’s easy! Simply export the data in tab format, and save it to the anonymous folder on our server.

My script does the next. Once a day, when it’s first called that day, it FTP’s the church network, grabs the file and saves it to the getChurch.org server. Then it calculates todays date, and parses the tab text file, searching for the date. It displays a search box and all records containing todays date in seconds.

Easy to implement, easy to use, and easy to search. I love it. Now I’m going to think about how I can write a macro for our Secretary that automatically exports the church calendar every evening. With that done, it’s a no maintenance solution.

Check it out!

~Jason

This feels like such a big deal. This has been on my task list for over a year!

Can you tell I’m really excited? Lots of cool programming breakthroughs lately!

~Jason

I’ve been looking for a great JavaScript HTML editor that is EASY to deploy. Most of them try to charge you lots of money, but this one is completely free, and works wonderfully.

I’ve started by implementing it into my EditContent script in use on www.odca.org, www.internationalwomenshealth.org, www.getchurch.org, www.saddlecorrections.com, www.brucerepei.com, among others. I hope to add it to http://www.InternetBusinessFollowup.com’s AFU script as well so that emails can be drafted in HTML from the browser.

Mind you, it’s only supported on IE 5.5 and above, but I can deal with that since 90% of people fit into that group, and I can always instruct my users to update their browsers.

This is an important and exciting discovery. HOW COOL! Expect much more elegant posts from me now!

~Jason