My 20.5 old daughter just logged into an online system at her college.
It was a system that I named (or at least contributed greatly to the name).
She got an error message and an image.
That I created.
In 2001 or 2002.
Just kinda letting that sink in a little.
It was a system that I named (or at least contributed greatly to the name).
She got an error message and an image.
That I created.
In 2001 or 2002.
Just kinda letting that sink in a little.
I am 90% certain that I used Macromedia Fireworks 2.0 to create the image.
Code includes this gem of a comment:
<!-- it would be really nice to have this as an h2 but it messes up NS 4.x -->
<!-- it would be really nice to have this as an h2 but it messes up NS 4.x -->
It also had a print stylesheet that is apparently no longer there... it 404s.
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/…">
XHTML 1.0 Transitional FTW!
XHTML 1.0 Transitional FTW!
I'm gonna need to dig around a little bit some other day and look at things to see what's still there.
We wrote it all in classic ASP. At some stage much later on it was migrated to .Net. But judging from what I see right now, all my filenames and directory structure still live.
We wrote it all in classic ASP. At some stage much later on it was migrated to .Net. But judging from what I see right now, all my filenames and directory structure still live.
FUN things I/we did on that project:
1. we had a WAP version.
2. we had print stylesheet for timetables so that they printed nicely.
3. we did e-commerce for continuing education courses (first in North America, I believe... I remember doing the payments integration!)
1. we had a WAP version.
2. we had print stylesheet for timetables so that they printed nicely.
3. we did e-commerce for continuing education courses (first in North America, I believe... I remember doing the payments integration!)
4. For student timetables: on a desktop browser, we gave you the whole week. On mobile, we listed your next classes first, then gave you the option to choose another day to view.
5. At the time, we used Ingres as a database. We used a newish interface - OpenROAD (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenROAD) that allowed us to dig into Ingres via DCOM objects. We did stuff that other people just weren't doing.
The databases all ran on Sun servers. I remember working through the configuration and making sure we had all the right ports open to allow the web server to talk to the app server to talk to the database server.
I remember this project was the one where I learned the difference between arguments being passed ByRef and ByVal.
I remember working with the team to install the SSL certificates for the e-comm. I remember the hundreds of test transactions, watching as things that we did on the web made it all the way through into the college's production databases that powered the entire college.
I remember the smiles on our small team's faces when the first real transaction came in and we captured money from someone's actual credit card.
I remember the people.
I remember the people.
I'm really happy that my daughter got that error this evening as she tried to login.
And yes, in case you’re wondering, that image absolutely did have an appropriate text equivalent.
One quick follow up on that comment for context.
That was because I wanted to wrap the image in a <h2>
No reason I couldn’t, other than Netscape 4 didn’t let me style that the way I wanted.
That was because I wanted to wrap the image in a <h2>
No reason I couldn’t, other than Netscape 4 didn’t let me style that the way I wanted.
