Apparently open DNS are handling around 34 BILLION requests each day lately, that’s f€%king awesome :)
I used to have open DNS on my computers now I use google DNS, another free service I make use of that I massively recommend if you have websites is cloudflare, king of free caching, minifying and geolocation based IPSec.
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<link href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"/>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.5/jquery.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/jquery-ui.min.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
$(document).ready(function () {
$("#datepicker").datepicker();
});
</script>
<title>JQuery Datepicker example</title>
</head>
<body>
<input type="text" id="datepicker" />
</body>
</html>See how the JQuery Datepicker looks below, the example uses code from the google CDN so is quick to load for your visitors no matter where they are in the world.
First create your page on the server that can take a parameter to get some form of data and return matches found, in this case I just want to get a body of text from a database. Note that you want to prevent caching of the response in the browser above the include that supplies the connection string in this classic ASP server side script.
<%@LANGUAGE="VBSCRIPT" CODEPAGE="65001"%>
<%
pStr = "private, no-cache, must-revalidate"
Response.ExpiresAbsolute = #2000-01-01#
Response.AddHeader "pragma", "no-cache"
Response.AddHeader "cache-control", pStr
%>
<!--#include file="../Connections/yourConnection.asp" -->
<%
Dim ID
ID = Request("ID")
Set cmd = Server.CreateObject ("ADODB.Command")
cmd.ActiveConnection = ConnString
cmd.CommandText = "SELECT TOP 1 Message FROM dbo.Table WHERE ID = " & ID
Set rs = cmd.Execute
If rs.eof = false Then
Response.Write(rs("Message"))
End If
Set rs = nothing
%>Below you find the client webpage containing the code required to change the innertext of a textarea to the response returned by the page above. You don’t need to worry about uploading the JQuery API to your server as it’s hosted on Google’s CDN to make it load nice and snappy geographically.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>AJAX post with parameters</title>
<script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.6.1/jquery.min.js" type="text/javascript"></script>
<script type="text/javascript" language="JavaScript">
$(document).ready(function(){
$("#getMessage").click(function(){
$.ajax({
type: "POST",
url: "../AJAX/FilenameOfAboveScript.asp",
data: "caseid=<% =Request("ID") %>",
success: function(msg){
$("#message").val(msg);
//alert(msg);
}
});
});
});
</script>
</head>
<body>
<form action="" method="post" name="form1">
<input name="id" id="id" type="hidden" value="<% =Request("ID") %>" />
<p><input name="getMessage" id="getMessage" type="button" value="get message" /></p>
<p><textarea name="message" id="message" cols="30" rows="20"></textarea></p>
</form>
</body>
</html>I took a couple of my old phones (E71 and k800i) on holiday to sell them but that didn’t happen so was looking to try one of those phone recycling by post companies here in the UK last week, I was about to pop down the post office with my jiffy bag full of phones last week to send them off to “Phone Recycle Bank” (found via moneysavingexpert.com) who had the highest payouts, but decided to google them for reviews where I found really bad writeups from people who had either had their phones lost or the company said the phone was not working and paid out less money.
So I did a bit more research and remembered all the mazuma mobiles ads on TV… googled their customer experiences instead where the ratings were far more positive so decided to go with them.
You start on the Mazuma website by entering the phone models you want to sell and they give you the price they are prepared to pay, which was lower than “Phone Recycle Bank” but at least the phones don’t get lost or you offered less than you thought you were going to get. Then you wack in your address, make a username and a password so they can post you a prepaid bag to send your phones to them in with a delivery note already created.
After two days the envelope arrived, I popped the phones and note in then went off to the post office to get a FREE proof of postage which was just a sticker and a receipt.
The proof of postage give you free insurance up to the value of £41 if your package does not get to mazuma, so off went the phones…
I expected to get no feedback for 2-3 days however the next morning I got an email saying the phone had been received for processing.
And sure enough later the same day (just the say after putting the phones in the post office I got the payment is on it’s way email.
Day 3 (today) I checked the bank account and sure enough there was £49 from Mazuma… I’m very impressed, now rather than cluttering up one of our brand new IKEA cupboards they turned into cash!.
Today Google launches a new version of Google Goggles that’s faster and smarter than ever before. The new Goggles 1.3 client for Android can scan barcodes almost instantly. All versions of Goggles can now recognize print ads in popular magazines and newspapers. Finally, Goggles has also learned a fun new trick for Sudoku fans.
Google Goggles 1.3 with improved barcode scanning is available for download in Android Market. Recognition of print ads and Sudoku solver is now enabled for the Google Goggles app on Android, as well as the Goggles component of the Google Mobile App on iPhone.
