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    #16
    Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

    Peter,

    Try again as I have no problem, even just typing in "alphato go.com" or any/all variations with http, www, etc..
    Mike
    __________________________________________
    It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
    It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
    Henry David Thoreau
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      #17
      Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

      Yes, I've been watching the dozens of incoming messages from this process. It does not seem to be 'perfect'. When it fails, on my side the email is missing the expected information; and I can witness the two or three subsequent "tries" by obviously the same person. About one in twenty or so has this type of problem.

      Everything is an expirement you know....otherwise I would be embarassed.

      Again on my side, I get a string such as below indicating the URL of the thread the user came from. If I go to the link below and click on my own post's web link, it works most of the time, and then fails some percent of the time. But I never get the more serious problem you show, where the GoTo button does not lead to my website.

      http://msgboard.alphasoftware.com/al...ad.php?t=72284

      So maybe someone can find the flaw in my code; why does it fail some percent of the time? Obviously I need to determine this if I intend to sport a fancy video saying how nice it works!!
      Steve Wood
      See my profile on IADN

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        #18
        Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

        Following up on some error reported, I modified the code (fired when you click my url below) to include some error checking.

        IF eval_valid("request.referer") ' because for some clients, that variable will not get created.

        IF ref<>"" ' in case request.referer exists, but returns blank

        IF session.topic <> "" ' because who knows, it just might be blank


        Code:
        IF eval_valid("request.referer")
        	
        	ref = request.referer
        	
        	IF ref<>""
        	
        		dim dat as p
        		dat = a5_split_URL(ref)
        		url = dat.protocol + "://" + dat.server + dat.path + dat.page
        		
        		result = http_post(url,dat.query_string)
        		topic = result.body
        		topic = extract_string(topic,"<title>","</title>")
        		
        		'EXAMPLE TITLE
        		'<title>Conditional display of components? - Alpha Software Message Board</title>
        		
        		topic = stritran(topic," - Alpha Software Message Board")
        		
        		IF topic = "Alpha Software Message Board"
        			topic = "Private Message"
        		END IF
        		
        		session.topic = topic
        		session.ref = ref
        		
        		IF session.topic <> ""
        			?"Message Board Topic: <strong>" + session.topic + "</strong>"
        		END IF
        	END IF
        END IF
        Steve Wood
        See my profile on IADN

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          #19
          Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

          Hi Steve,

          Now what did you do?? :)

          I now get
          <H1>Service Unavailable

          The server is temporarily unable to service your request due to maintenance downtime or capacity problems. Please try again later.
          Additionally, a 400 Bad Request error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
          occaisionally when going from you a5w page to your website....seems to be about 1 out of 3 tries.
          Mike
          __________________________________________
          It is only when we forget all our learning that we begin to know.
          It's not what you look at that matters, it's what you see.
          Henry David Thoreau
          __________________________________________



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            #20
            Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

            Ah the joys of having a complex world and live system with live users - I was testing IE and FF with/without cookies, and then switched from V8 to V9. That's the page anyone would get if the server was down. But all that was happening is "toggling" from v8 to V9 took 120 seconds and you came in during that timeframe.

            Which brings me to a good point - there is nothing like working in the real world as a learning experience.
            Steve Wood
            See my profile on IADN

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              #21
              Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

              You're back in business!
              Peter
              AlphaBase Solutions, LLC

              [email protected]
              https://www.alphabasesolutions.com


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                #22
                Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

                Taking requests....

                I will be able to cut a few move videos in a few weeks as I wrap up some projects. Up to now I have been playing with the medium, getting my bearings, seeing what works. Some have responded that the videos are nice, but beyond what they can do technically, or not really what they want to accomplish. I figure they are mostly about learning technique rather than trying to duplicate the exact purpose.

                But I'd like to know what other's think is important, and see if I can accomodate.

                Once you get in to it (making videos), it's rather fun. But it also can get expensive if you go all out on equipment, and can be time conusming on the editing side. Too much editing and it comes off choppy; move one inch back or forth from the mic, and your vioce output completely changes. This will make you laugh; I purchased a very high quality mic, and on the first couple videos I could hear a ticking sound throughout - it was my wall clock from five feet away. I now have to turn everything off, cover my computer with a blanket and use a "spider shock mount" for the microphone to reduce vibration. I look like Letterman sitting at my desk.

                If this works out, I'd be up to making videos of works by other developers (for a small fee) in order to get them in to the Alpha showcase.
                Steve Wood
                See my profile on IADN

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                  #23
                  Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

                  Steve

                  Trust me you look nothing like Letterman :D
                  Glen Schild



                  My Blog

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                    #24
                    A5 Instruction Videos

                    New video #7 dated 6/23/08: Showcase - Web-based Traffic Citation program [for use by police].

                    See website link below, Developer Resources. If you don't like the application, at least you'll like the background music.
                    Steve Wood
                    See my profile on IADN

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                      #25
                      Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

                      Steve

                      did you mean to include this link

                      http://alphatogo.com/video/ecit_demo.htm
                      Richard Rabins
                      Co Chairman
                      Alpha Software

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                        #26
                        Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

                        Doesn't hurt, but all of the videos are on my website, so I direct traffic there in case anyone wants to see the other ones.
                        Steve Wood
                        See my profile on IADN

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                          #27
                          Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

                          Well Steve,
                          Very impressive! If I had half the knowledge and skills you have in these areas...

                          I like how you improved your #5 video from when I reviewed it some time ago.

                          All the videos I viewed today (4-7) were clear, informative, at the right speed pace and visually appealing.

                          The only suggestion I may have is...more please!
                          Eric

                          Alpha Five Websites
                          longlivepuppies.com
                          socialservicenetwork.com
                          -------------------------------------------------
                          socialservicenetwork.org

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                            #28
                            Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

                            New Video #8. This one is on Login and recovering from a failure, prohibiting access on failure, alerting the Admin.

                            It's more of a showcase than technical, not much on the actual code.

                            See website below, Developer Resources menu item.
                            Steve Wood
                            See my profile on IADN

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                              #29
                              Re: My first A5 instruction Videos

                              Another quick one, video #9.

                              This one is on sitemap, robots.txt and META Tags. Three very important things most of us leave out of our application. It really is not a discussion about them, more about how I implemented them in my template.

                              I kicked off this little two hour project after discovering Google was indexing my test application websites. Not cool, but kinda fastinating. So I put a robots.txt on each of them to stop indexing, and sitemap.xml on the sites I do want indexed, to tell search engines what to index.

                              Not an expert in this area, but I discovered you can use sitemap file to tell search engines to follow your dynamic content. For instance if you have a shopping cart with a thousand items, but only 10 items appear at a time. In this case, the URL to the first page might look like this:

                              HTML Code:
                              http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.a5w?
                              But the second page will look like this:

                              HTML Code:
                              http://www.mydomain.com/mypage.a5w?mycomponent_Page=2
                              You can include all of the pages in sitemap.xml and search engines will follow your URL and index those pages.

                              THAT is a lot more detail than just indexing your static website.

                              I have not done it yet, but I plan to add routines that automatically generate all possible URL's for a dynamic site so they can be included in the sitemap and indexed.
                              Steve Wood
                              See my profile on IADN

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