In article <sf2dnSwtgeVA4kzbnZ2dnUVZ_tDinZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

On Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:13:44 -0700, johac wrote:

In article <Gd2dnVpvPfDuOU3bnZ2dnUVZ_sninZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

On Fri, 24 Aug 2007 22:44:42 -0700, johac wrote:

In article <85-dnWcxw-wC_lLbnZ2dnUVZ_oqhnZ2d@giganews.com>,
"Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

It's *alive*!

I think. I've said that before.

Anywho.

http://www.alt-atheism.org/

There is a limited quote browser running now. Only winning quotes
show at this point, I'm not done. I've spent most of the past
week trying to consolodate all the quote files I have, all the
ones Nemo has, merge them all into a single database, and do some
(but there's more to do) clean up.

Missing right now is the ability to "jump" to a particular
contest (you can only see them sequentially right now) and
searching hasn't been added yet.

But it's over here:

http://www.alt-atheism.org/quotes

I also spent the day arguing with IE. I was running three (yes,
three) browsers under Winduz 2000 (via Parallels for Mac) and two
on the Mac side and everybody played happily with the fonts
EXCEPT IE.

Bleah.

I think I found a reasonable compromise. I think...

Looks good! I'll keep checking back..

Thanks. Got the contest selector widget up. Though I need to come up
with a better way to do the selecting. The menu turned out to be a
mile long.

I didn't really realize until very recently that the contest is
quite this old. It started ten years ago this December and the
database has over 2200 quotes total counting winners and
nominations...

Wow! That's quite a list. I think I've been around here for 8 or 9
years and the contest has been around as long as I've been.

I showed up one year later myself. So in 2008, I'll have been around
for a decade.

(And, suddenly, I hate that I can talk about my life in terms of
"decades")

Humpf! I'm in my seventh so how do you think I feel?

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:27:57 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

Wow! That's quite a list. I think I've been around here for 8 or 9 years
and the contest has been around as long as I've been.

I showed up one year later myself. So in 2008, I'll have been around for
a decade.

(And, suddenly, I hate that I can talk about my life in terms of
"decades")

Patience, my Son. Next come the scores.

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:27:57 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

Wow! That's quite a list. I think I've been around here for 8 or 9 years
and the contest has been around as long as I've been.

I showed up one year later myself. So in 2008, I'll have been around for
a decade.

(And, suddenly, I hate that I can talk about my life in terms of
"decades")

Patience, my Son. Next come the scores.

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:27:57 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

Wow! That's quite a list. I think I've been around here for 8 or 9 years
and the contest has been around as long as I've been.

I showed up one year later myself. So in 2008, I'll have been around for
a decade.

(And, suddenly, I hate that I can talk about my life in terms of
"decades")

What took you so long?

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:27:57 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo>
wrote:

Wow! That's quite a list. I think I've been around here for 8 or 9
years and the contest has been around as long as I've been.

I showed up one year later myself. So in 2008, I'll have been around for
a decade.

(And, suddenly, I hate that I can talk about my life in terms of
"decades")

What took you so long?

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:26:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo"
<gmail@com.mkbilbo> wrote:

I was trying to use AJAX to get away from having a button to click. You'd
make your selections and, zap, the quotes would appear. Which worked fine
until I tried to also have one to watch the year selector so when you
chose a year, it'd make a call to update the month selector.

Insanity ensued. <g>

You CANNOT have two controls each updating the other one. There's no
CPU made yet that's powerful to reach infinity and come back. :)

Decided to revisit it when I know the framework better. Though, actually,
the biggest issue is I don't know Javascript all that well. Rails
generates all this stuff for you but I can't always tell if I got what I
asked for. <g>

The best language to write anything in, of course, is the one for the
purpose that you know best. I've done that sort of thing in ASP with
vbscript, but I'm not all that good at js any more. What you don't
use, you lose.

On Sun, 26 Aug 2007 08:26:15 -0500, "Mark K. Bilbo" <gmail@com.mkbilbo>
wrote:

I was trying to use AJAX to get away from having a button to click.
You'd make your selections and, zap, the quotes would appear. Which
worked fine until I tried to also have one to watch the year selector so
when you chose a year, it'd make a call to update the month selector.

Insanity ensued. <g>

You CANNOT have two controls each updating the other one. There's no
CPU made yet that's powerful to reach infinity and come back. :)

Decided to revisit it when I know the framework better. Though,
actually, the biggest issue is I don't know Javascript all that well.
Rails generates all this stuff for you but I can't always tell if I got
what I asked for. <g>

The best language to write anything in, of course, is the one for the
purpose that you know best.

I've done that sort of thing in ASP with
vbscript, but I'm not all that good at js any more. What you don't use,
you lose.