If there ain't one there oughta be
oy... what the hell am I doing up this early in the morning... Isn't there some kind of law?
gifStream demo finished
Here's the gifStream demo I mentioned in the last entry. I'll be turning this into a full-fledged tutorial eventually.
gifStream fun
I've recently been playing with a new technique I picked up from Humankind Systems' AnswerTrack application. I'm currently calling it gifStreaming, as that's the name of the transparent gif that AnswerTrack uses.
So what is it? It's a method of affecting a database without refreshing the page, by setting the src of a transparent gif to the URL of a page that performs the database action. This allows you to affect database data by checking a box, or clicking a gif, without ever having to refresh the page. This comes in very handy when you're working with a large amount of boolean fields on one page.
I'll eventually be putting together a tutorial and an example to show how it works. I find it pretty exciting (is that measure of how easy I am to please?).