Topic: Okie dokie, next thing on our long list (Read 4676 times)

toasty0 · « **on:** March 08, 2005, 04:24:11 pm »

Looks like we can live without some of the eye candy, but what about cookies for storing temporary information? In this test I have set up a second page that should display your race selection and the date of your last visit (no colors though).

The big question is will Firefox work the same with cookie stored information? I think it will but just to be safe I have set up this little test.

Go to http://www.toasty0.com/SFC/Ladder/TestRace.aspx and make your selection. Then click the "Continue Test" button and see if the page you're sent to displays the information correctly if at all.

Thanks again guys and gals.

Jerry

Monty · « **Reply #1 on:** March 08, 2005, 05:29:32 pm »

cookie test seems to work the same for both browsers.

Firefox's rendering of the initial page is horible:

"Please do not bookmark or add this page to your favorites. The directories for this beta test will change without notice."

and

"In this phase of testing a cookie will be set to your machine. It will expire 15 minutes after it is set. It will only store your last visit info and race selection to be read by another page."

It does not render the span elements as boxes and the text is all over the place.

toasty0 · « **Reply #2 on:** March 14, 2005, 08:52:50 pm »

Quote from: Monty on March 08, 2005, 05:29:32 pm

cookie test seems to work the same for both browsers.

Firefox's rendering of the initial page is horible:

"Please do not bookmark or add this page to your favorites. The directories for this beta test will change without notice."

and

"In this phase of testing a cookie will be set to your machine. It will expire 15 minutes after it is set. It will only store your last visit info and race selection to be read by another page."

It does not render the span elements as boxes and the text is all over the place.

Darn FF's inability to properly render some span tags. Guess I'm limited to table tags if I want to be FF friendly. Thanks for the feedback.

A general FYI: I have moved the beta test over to my test server: http://www.toasty0.net. This is where I will develop the software. Anyone interested in how things go just pop on by, give it a whirl and let me know if you like it, don't like it, or something on your wish list that's not there.

Jerry

toasty0 · « **Reply #3 on:** March 21, 2005, 11:29:17 pm »

Slowly I plod along. Between bouts of trying to figure out how to launch SFC in multiplayer mode and studying for my MCAD and SQL2000 development I got a bit more doen for the ladder league stuff.

http://www.toasty0.net/

It ain't much, but your feedback is always welcome. It makes me think when thinking becomes last on my list of activities.

Thanks all.

Jerry

Sirgod · « **Reply #4 on:** March 22, 2005, 02:15:43 am »

Hey Jerry, here's a New Avatar for you, If you want to use It.

Stephen

toasty0 · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2005, 09:39:57 am »

Quote from: Stephen on March 22, 2005, 02:15:43 am

Hey Jerry, here's a New Avatar for you, If you want to use It.

Stephen

Coolness!

Jerry

toasty0 · « **Reply #6 on:** March 26, 2005, 11:13:38 pm »

Hittin' the Wall

Tonight I sat down at the computer, fired up my IDE, and stared. And stared. And stared.

Then I stared at my outlined plan of coding that I had jotted down throughout the day. It said something about using Switch/Cases and ColorTransforms, and creating the a confirmation page, and testing wether I should encrypt information before or after a certain event...and more boring blah blah blah stuff.

Welp after about 30 minutes of staring at my notes and then sharing that stare with my monitor I closed the IDE and made myself a nice Blackberry Merlot cooler.

*Cheers* and here's to coding tomorrow!

Best to you all,
Jerry

SkyFlyer · « **Reply #7 on:** March 27, 2005, 03:49:53 am »

Quote from: Monty on March 08, 2005, 05:29:32 pm

cookie test seems to work the same for both browsers.

Firefox's rendering of the initial page is horible:

"Please do not bookmark or add this page to your favorites. The directories for this beta test will change without notice."

and

"In this phase of testing a cookie will be set to your machine. It will expire 15 minutes after it is set. It will only store your last visit info and race selection to be read by another page."

It does not render the span elements as boxes and the text is all over the place.

Same results here, it works but it has the alignment problem. --Mozilla (not firefox).

toasty0 · « **Reply #8 on:** March 28, 2005, 08:40:44 pm »

Nothing like coding something to what you think is perfection...well, ok...coding it to works good enough, compiling it, but when you launch it it gives you this ugly error message:

System.NullReferenceException

Gawd I hate tracking those down...

Bonk · « **Reply #9 on:** March 28, 2005, 09:34:04 pm »

Quote from: toasty0 on March 26, 2005, 11:13:38 pm

Hittin' the Wall

...Welp after about 30 minutes of staring at my notes and then sharing that stare with my monitor I closed the IDE and made myself a nice Blackberry Merlot cooler...

Good choice, liquid inspiration!

toasty0 · « **Reply #10 on:** March 29, 2005, 04:04:14 pm »

Quote from: toasty0 on March 28, 2005, 08:40:44 pm

Nothing like coding something to what you think is perfection...well, ok...coding it to works good enough, compiling it, but when you launch it it gives you this ugly error message:

System.NullReferenceException

Gawd I hate tracking those down...

Ok...yipee, and all that jazz. I found the little critter. In case any of you might be wondering what the heck I'm babbling about here is a looksee at the error class: NullReferenceException Class

Now that that is out of the way it is time to get back to cutting cookies and encrypting info.

_{SIDE NOTE TO BONK: I don't know if you're playing with cookies or not but if you are take a gander at your Amazon cookie. Interesting use of session ID and Session State from what I can decipher.}

Jerry

toasty0 · « **Reply #11 on:** April 02, 2005, 12:22:37 am »

Anything you think I'm missing with this? http://www.toasty0.net/register.aspx?id={0}"

toasty0 · « **Reply #12 on:** April 04, 2005, 10:19:46 am »

It looks like I may have completed the registration page(s), but before I start commiting input to a database I'd like to get your feedback. So I once again need you guys to pound on it...go to http://www.toasty0.net and click through to register and confirm.

After your guys give me the all clear or report any bug and they are fixed I will connect things to the database. Then I will begin work on the battle reporting interface.

Thanks for you help all. You rock!

Jerry

Bonk · « **Reply #13 on:** April 04, 2005, 10:21:06 pm »

Test registration pages seem to work fine for me - reports all data input correctly. Required fields working... (Firefox 1.0.2)

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SIDE NOTE TO BONK: I don't know if you're playing with cookies or not but if you are take a gander at your Amazon cookie. Interesting use of session ID and Session State from what I can decipher.

Sounds interesting, my knowledge of sessions and cookies is pretty much limited to their implementation in PHP (http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php).

I have a rudimentary implementation of session data for the shipyard on the sql webmap, but have never examined the contents of the session files or cookies placed.

What do you think they're up to?

toasty0 · « **Reply #14 on:** April 05, 2005, 09:40:23 am »

Quote from: Bonk on April 04, 2005, 10:21:06 pm

Test registration pages seem to work fine for me - reports all data input correctly. Required fields working... (Firefox 1.0.2)

Quote
SIDE NOTE TO BONK: I don't know if you're playing with cookies or not but if you are take a gander at your Amazon cookie. Interesting use of session ID and Session State from what I can decipher.

Sounds interesting, my knowledge of sessions and cookies is pretty much limited to their implementation in PHP (http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php).

I have a rudimentary implementation of session data for the shipyard on the sql webmap, but have never examined the contents of the session files or cookies placed.

What do you think they're up to?

Ack! That was a week ago and only one of those passing thought things. I'm going to have to go back and figure out what it was that jumped out at me the time that I found so interesting.

_{*grumble* *grumble* Absentminded professor my butt. Compleyly forgetful fool is more like it, Toasty mumbles under his breath...}

toasty0 · « **Reply #15 on:** April 05, 2005, 04:45:24 pm »

I just took a gander at (http://ca.php.net/manual/en/ref.session.php). What a nice resuorce.

Jerry

toasty0 · « **Reply #16 on:** April 17, 2005, 12:58:19 pm »

Just to keep you guys abreast of what is happening with the Ladder League thingy.

I am currently working on building the SQL 2000 database. As this is my first ever SQL 2000 database it of course slow going. As my guide I am using this tome (

) to accomplish this complicated task.

In the meantime I will be doing some tweaks to the registration and login pages to better conform to security standards and the SQL 2000 database design.

I've also been burning brain cells day-dreaming about the battle reporting interface and player/fleet interface.

Best,
Jerry

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