About a month ago, I was given the job to add JavaScript code to HTML pages that would generate Pop-up when the user closes the window or navigates to a different one.  There were a lot of inherent problems with this idea that were known and unforeseen.  One of the problems that we knew is that in over ninety percent of the browsers for example the current versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox, Pop-ups would be blocked by default unless the user adds a special exception. To get the page to open a pop-up, I had to put a JavaScript function in the onUload of the body tag that would open a child window.  The first problem that I discovered was the onUload attribute is run every time that page is exited, refreshed, or navigated to another page.  The work around that or solution that I came up with was to disable the function from opening a pop-up when a link or button is clicked.  I did that by creating a variable in JavaScript that would be used like a Boolean variable (initialized as true) that would be tested in the onUnload JavaScript function when a link would be clicked directing the user to another page in the site, it would first set the Boolean variable to false bypassing the pop-up.  To reprogram every link in an entire page and in every page of the site would be a huge task to do. Thats where jQuery stepped in and turns the job into a simple search and replace.  The code below modifies every anchor link and submit button and sets the bool to false.
$(document).ready(function() {
$(”a”).click(function() {
flag = false;
});
$(”submit”).click(function() {
flag = false;
});
}
The last problem we ran into which seemed to be the toughest fix until we approached it differently was on every page there is a flash menu which did not seem to want to execute the JavaScript correctly to set the variable to false.  So, what I did was added mouse over effects to the flash menu that would set the variable to false when over the menu and set it back to true when the cursor leaves the element that the flash is in.
$(”#noflash”).mouseover(function() {
flag = false;
});
$(”#noflash”).mouseout(function() {
flag = true;
});

Recently, I had to do some code programming for DDA in JAVA for a desktop application. Its been a while since I wrote anything in JAVA (about five years), but the amount of syntax errors I made was small. I forgot how fussy the compiler is when coding something as simple as assigning a value into a variable. In JAVA, you have to declare what type of variable it is, then do the assignment which in many other web scripting languages like PHP or Coldfusion it doesnt matter what kind of value gets assigned to it. There is only one type of variable and it doesnt have to be declared. Although in JAVA there does seem to be a ton of coding examples and pre-defined functions out there that lets you do some imaginative and complex operations relatively straightforward. I also like programming with the NetBeans IDE better than Dreamweaver because the real-time error checking is deeper and more descriptive and the auto suggest seems to be a little more perceptive. I probably wont get to use JAVA much moving forward, but it is nice reminiscing about programming languages Ive used in the past and get to use it again. (more…)

For Strategic internet marketing, it is a  good technique to create applications for social networking sites like Facebook and MySpace because they can reach a broad audience. With Facebook you can add in web ads in your application to generate revenue or it can be used as another form of internet marketing to show off some of your site featuresto draw users to your site.

When Programming for facebook applications they use their proprietary language called FBML which is similar to HTML. FBML does not allow scripts to be run. Facebook also has development console tools for testing purposes. Writing with FBML lets you use the user’s information such as their name, location, friend’s usernames, etc with Facebook keeping their information private from the creators of the application. We are creating a Facebook application for a site called youbetmylife.com where users get share wagers, bets, and stories with other users.