http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog A tech guide by darwinshome Fri, 15 Aug 2008 08:43:25 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Following a post on an Internet forum, here is a small expansion on my Country / State dropdown selection script to enable a third level drop down. This additional level would allow for a country / state / city drop down selection on an XML file as apposed ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2008/06/27/three-level-xml-to-javascript-drop-down-list/ The regular visitors to my website would have noticed the new website structure and design that I finally got together; to say that I am proud of my work would be understating the huge pride I have in my website. Humbleness aside, I have not been the only website to recently ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2008/03/17/new-designs-all-around/ Getting your blog (and blog posts) out there into the Big Wide Internet can be difficult at the best of times, but trying to get people that do visit your website to help you out shouldn't be. Social Networking websites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon and Facebook all have methods to allow ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2008/03/10/social-networking-images-and-links/ Making use of my XML based Country and State/Province file I have put together a small script to populate two drop down lists with the complete Country and the selected countries Province or State list. The code is ALL client-side based, so it will suffer from browsers without JavaScript enabled, but ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2008/03/02/javascript-xml-based-country-state-selection-script/ I have been looking all over the Internet for an AJAX or similar dynamic drop down tool for Country and Province/State selection (You select a country from a drop down list and the country/state drop down selection automatically populates with that countries list of provinces or states) The good news is ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2008/02/08/country-selection-list-with-sate-and-province/ Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our light, not our darkness that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, Who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be? You are a child of God. Your ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2008/01/20/inspiration/ I was thinking of making the title of this post "The quest for the perfect burger" just because I know the quest for the perfect burger is easier than the near on impossible quest for the perfect piece of code; but burgers (as tasty as they are) just don't fit with ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2007/08/08/the-quest-for-the-perfect/ I recently downloaded a copy of Microsoft Office 2007 Professional. During the download, Microsoft emailed the trial licence key to my Hotmail email account. Turns out Microsoft’s Hotmail service does not like its Try Microsoft Office service. “Attachments, pictures, and links in this message have been blocked for your safety” “This message ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2007/06/13/overzealous-checks/ When people talk about the number of fans Leo Laporte of TWiT has you don't really comprehend the numbers until he posts something like this and the majority of his 'TWiT Army' decideds to follow suit. Late last night I watched this effect first hand as people read Leo's post ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2007/04/08/twitter-vs-jaiku/ Would this work here, in a busy SA street? The UK is adding loud speakers to its public camera system to allow the watching controllers to tell people to stop misbehaving. I think the first few times would scare the person into stopping, but what if they don't understand English? Or ... http://www.darwinshome.za.net/blog/2007/04/04/hey-you-stop-that/