universal video codec

one of the cooler open source projects i've seen.

http://ffmpeg.org/index.html

Getting rid of the trailing comma that blows up javascript in internet explorer (IE)

if you are like me, you can't stand writing pages for IE. Finicky and unique (from chrome and ff). One of my frustrations in writing code for IE that also incorporates jquery (or any javascripti function) is that IE chokes on trailing "," while FF does not.

For instance this exerpt describes the creation of a "formless submit" using jquery form plugin:

$(document).ready(function() {

$('#inputform1').ajaxForm({
// target identifies the element(s) to update with the server response
target: '#htmlExampleTarget1',

// success identifies the function to invoke when the server response
// has been received; here we apply a fade-in effect to the new content
success: function() {
$('#formsubmit1').html("entry saved");
$('#htmlExampleTarget1').fadeIn('slow');
}
});
$('#inputform2').ajaxForm({
// target identifies the element(s) to update with the server response
target: '#htmlExampleTarget2',

// success identifies the function to invoke when the server response
// has been received; here we apply a fade-in effect to the new content
success: function() {
$('#formsubmit2').html("entry saved");
$('#htmlExampleTarget2').fadeIn('slow');
},
});
});

This code would blow up in IE because of the last "," The solution I've found is to write out the comma at the top of the do loops instead of the logical end. For instance:

record=0
DO WHILE NOT objResultsSet.EOF

record = record + 1

if record>1 then
response.write(",")
END IF

-------------remainder of the loop

response.write(vbLf & "}")
objResultsSet.MoveNext
LOOP

Normally I would write out "}," on the last line - however by putting in the comma write out at the top of the loop (along with a simple conditional statement to keep the first one from appearing) I can avoid the dreaded trailing comma.

-bp

Implementing Google Health API - Vbscript Classic ASP oAuth

After getting facebook API and twitter API both to work - i'm digging into the google health API/Google oAuth protocol. Collection of notes below...

types of oAuth
http://blog.apigee.com/detail/oauth_differences/

http://code.google.com/apis/health/

getting started: http://code.google.com/apis/health/getting_started.html

you'll eventually need to start using H9:
https://h9.google.com/ - the sandbox environment.

more on google oAuth
http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/oauth.html

oAuth Playground (FANTASTIC!!!)
http://googlecodesamples.com/oauth_playground/


possible plug and play solution...
http://www.dotnetopenauth.net/



more to come as i figure this out...
-bp