Harold and Kumar
Just saw the world premiere of Harold and Kumar at SXSW at put together a little review that can be found here.
Was Neil Patrick Harris drunk at the premiere?
Steve Jobs
A long and pretty thorough profile of Steve Jobs in Fortune Magazine, right now.
When you are written about as much as Steve Jobs is, you can’t help but rehash some information, but it was a good read never the less.
Dynamic Columns When You Don’t Know How Many Entries There Are in ASP
Here is a small bit of code, using the ASP ‘mod’ function to help you dynamically create a new row or column.
The ‘mod’ function is best explained as the remainder of a division problem. 28/9 = 3 Remainder of 1 or put another way 28/9 = 3 with a ‘mod’ of 1.
Using that information, we can tell our code to do something different when it hits a certain record in the database. For example, if you are populating a table, and you don’t know how many records are currently in the database, you might use the ‘mod’ function to create a new row automatically after every 5 records.
Say we have a list of companies that we want to present in columns, but at any one moment I don’t know how many records are in the database, but I do know that I don’t want to have a column be more than 10 companies deep.
Here is how we might tackle that problem.
<table id="companies"> <tr><td>
<% i = 1
do until rs.eof
cellString = "<p>" & rs("Company") & "</p>"
if not i mod 10 = 0 then response.write(cellString) else response.write(cellString)%> </td><td> <% end if
i = i + 1
rs.movenext loop
%>
</td></tr> </table>
What is happening in the code is that we are initially setting i = 1 and then outputting the first company name in a <p> tag. We then loop through the code and add 1 to i before each new loop until we get to the 10th record, because only at the 10th record does the remainder or ‘mod’ = 0.
And then at that point, we insert the company’s name but we also drop in </td><td> to close the current cell and start a new one, in effect creating a new column.
You will note that the opening and closing <td> tags need to be outside of the code or your table format will be all screwed up.
And you can easily change the number of rows in your column by changing mod = 10 to how ever many rows you would like. ie. mod = 20, mod = 30. Other ways to use ‘mod’ with minor changes to the above code would be to create new rows when needed, or using ‘mod’ to see if you are in an even or odd numbered row to possibly alternate the colors of rows.
This Week In Photography - TWIP
Just want to point out a new web site / podcast that has become required listening for me in the last few weeks since I found it.
I first found out about the show on the MacBreak Weekly podcast and couldn’t recommend it more. It has rekindled my photography bug and prompted me to join the TWIP Flickr group to promote more interaction.
So, check it out.
IE is kicking my ass today - Big news site redesign
For some reason I ran into a lot of problems with IE7 on this today, and I was hoping I could get a few comments from around the web.
This is what we have now…
and this is where I have started to go with it…
http://www.cegltd.com/new_front.asp
Yeah, we are still working in ASP. I actually wrote a PHP version of the page, but the dynamic image resizing was horrendous. You can take a look here if you like.
I realize my proficiency in ASP is much greater but thats a huge load time difference.
If anyone has any comments or notices any problems - please - let me know.
