AnthonyDamasco

So I’ve been bitching to my employer for new equipment for a while. They had me on a dell Pentium IV with a gig of ram, and I had to run premier, photoshop, dreamweaver, and illustrator CS3 next to each other while keeping outlook open to receive new emails - and of course AIM was also eating resources.

Not to brag, but I am an extremely fast developer, and this piece of shit system would crash constantly and cause me to loose my unsaved work on a regular basis. It had me extremely frustrated. The lack of resources wouldn’t allow me to export to certain video formats either - so I was always wasting time searching for freeware to manage some type of work around.

So for 6 months I’ve been managing to get by on this shitbox PC. Two weeks ago a miralce happened, I got the DELL PRECISION T5400 quadcore workstation. Holy crap - what a huge difference. I will work an entire day without even noticing that I have 30 - 5mb images up in photoshop minimized.

If you are hiring a developer, make sure they have the right equipment! They will waste a ton of time to make up in software, what they lack in hardware.

A Great day in American history.

When trying to install google analytics on a clients website I did the normal, and just pasted the script right before the tag. I couldn’t get it to work at all. I installed it, changed to the urchin script and everything.

I finally found the answer.

This is wrong, you cannot have a space between the script and the tag.

<script type=text/javascript”><!–
var gaJsHost = ((”https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(”%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));
// –></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(”xxxxxxx”);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
// –></script>

</body>
</html>

This is right:

<script type=text/javascript”><!–
var gaJsHost = ((”https:” == document.location.protocol) ? “https://ssl.” : “http://www.”);
document.write(unescape(”%3Cscript src=’” + gaJsHost + “google-analytics.com/ga.js’ type=’text/javascript’%3E%3C/script%3E”));
// –></script>
<script type=”text/javascript”><!–
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker(”xxxxxxxxx”);
pageTracker._trackPageview();
// –></script>
</body>
</html>

I’m not 100% sure on this, but it’s worth a try if you are having trouble with google analytics. I think that googles software does a find on “</body></html>” and then grabs the pasted code right before it, so if there is a space its going to miss the first line of google’s tracker code.

So this is the third time I’ve had to change my domain name. The first time was due to a hosting issue, and this time it is because I let someone buy my domain name on godaddy, and now I don’t have access to it to renew it. I’ll get it in 70 days when Go daddy releases it. Fun right?

Well I bought anthonydamasco.net and now I totally own the hosting -  and the domain. So no more changes! Anyone linking to me website for any reason please change the link from .com to .net . All download links have been migrated over to this domain name. If you have any questions, please ask them in the comments.

Here is a list of Ajax Elements with examples - I hope this information is useful in your quest to utilize Ajax on your website.

Using Ajax on our website will not only make our website look cleaner, but It will also impress users browsing through our website.

A. Light Box - A light box is like a popup window except, it doesn’t actually open a new window. Light boxes over a lot more design control and pop up blockers will not stop them from opening.

Light Box Example: click here

B. Ajax Galleries - Ajax galleries are a great way to display images without using flash. Ajax galleries are clean, run smooth, and impressive.

Ajax Gallery Example: click here

C. Ajax Accordions - This is a ajax powered menu than can be used for website navigations, baits, or anything else you could think of.

Ajax Accordion Example: click here

D. Image Sliders - Ajax image sliders are yet another cool way to let users browse through images.

Ajax Slider Examples (there are a few) : Click here

E. 3d Ajax carousels - A rotating carousel of images

Example: click here

F. Ajax Zoom - When you mouseover an image, a zoomed in box appears allowed the user to get a closer look at the image.

G. Ajax Dock - the Ajax doc mimics the mac dock - see for your self.

example: click here

H. Ajax Captions - ajax allows you to style captions and break away from the standard yellow boxes, black text

example: click here

I. Using lightboxes to launch videos - Photos aren’t the only thing that you can stick in a light box - Video players also look great when placed in a lightbox.

example : click here