infoxicated

I was checking out Aaron‘s site (again, I’ve never met/spoken to the guy, but it’s netiquette to call folk by their first name when you’re linking to them! ;o)) and found his DHTML “ypmenus”. They are well cool and very easy to implement too, for someone who doesn’t mind getting their hands a little dirty with the code.

Almost makes me wish I’d kept up the DHTML tinkering instead of deciding to wait until there was decent cross browser support for the DOM and CSS. Granted, when that day comes it would be nice to hit the ground running, but for the moment I have bigger fish to fry in the shape of the Intranet at work.

It’s up on the server now and other than a small fright caused by an old version of php, it seems to be working pretty well. Some nice people are testing the CMS over the next couple of days and hopefully they wont find much wrong with it. Then it will be all systems go – wahey!

I really want this to be a good project – mostly for me, because I haven’t really produced anything of note so far, and partly for my boss for having the faith in me in the first place. There’s also the fact that I’ve done some Very Cool Stuff ™ behind the scenes with this Intranet and I just want to see how it floats.

Fingers crossed over the next few days.

Sitepoint forums are a cool developers hang out. Even if you’re not stuck with something, there’s a chance you can lend a hand to someone else and hope that the good karma comes back to you when you’re stuck. So I’m finding it increasingly perplexing that I seem to have some sort of karma bypass installed around my topics when I do need help.

I’ve posted questions on nested while loops, as well as a Javascript cookie query, not to mention a few others. Yet somehow, each time I ask for help, I’m either not understood… or nobody is willing to cough up the answer.

I find it hard to believe that I’m asking the kind of questions that hundreds of online gurus are completely foxed by. So maybe it’s the way I’m asking? Am I being too polite? Am I not explaining myself properly?

Whatever it is, I wish I knew.

On the other hand, I’m building up so much good karma that someone is due to post the winning Lotto numbers to me instead of answering my coding question, which would instantly trivialise the problem anyway! ;o)

The captivating read of the $95,000 Adventure had me almost as gripped as the story of Bob Kolody vs Coca Cola about a year ago. The Coca-Karma case has just been updated although still shows no signs of reaching a conclusion in the near future. I guess that’s the US legal system for you.

Thanks to Jeremy for the link to the $95,000 Adventure story – I don’t know where he finds the time to come up with all these great links. :o)