Monday 20 August 2007

Rolling back...

It's been a busy couple of weeks here at the esendex office. What with introducing transaction scope and testing it. Then finding problems with it and rolling it back it's been hectic to say the least. Now we've had a request to add some more functionality to our ActiveX component so it's time to get back into the joys of things like log4cpp and C++.

I should get round to making some progress on my send sms gadget this week or next but we have an impending release so i guess we'll see how that goes first.

Friday 3 August 2007

iGoogle URL Gadgets

I've had a couple of hours this afternoon playing with iGoogle and gadgets again and i've decided that i will create a URL gadget that will effectively be a series of 3 pages. The first to send the message using form post and the other two as success / failure pages which in turn will re-direct back to the send page.

We already support this setup with formpost so i haven't got to write any backend code and by using a URL gadget i can get the layout done easily with 3 small web pages. I will also need to get the user prefferences (username, password and account reference) stored in the gadget itself so as not to clog up the gadget with unnecessary fields.

Hopefully i'll get a full day on this next friday and i'll be able to share my findings here, if not i'll try and update with what progress i make.