Thursday, May 16, 2002

Today's programming project was to get started on an opt-in emailing system for the office.   The chosen tools were Dreamweaver Ultradev for the Web interface, Firebird for the databse server back end and Delphi 6 with Indy internet components for the mass-mailing guts.   Initial results are nice. We now have a running db, subscription system interface on the web and Delphi code that runs through the db, pulls MX records from DNS for the subscriber's email addresses and verifies a valid SMTP connection to the subscriber's server.    Invalid addresses are flagged for purging after a number of failures.    Why go through this trouble when there are plenty of pre-existing solutions?  Two words - INTEGRATION and CONTROL.  9:05:09 PM

Opera 6.02 is out.  Today I decided to try using OPERA for all my web browsing.  If you haven't tried it, I'd definitely recommend you give it a go.   The MDI interface is a much cleaner to bounce around the web and you should also play around with the Mouse Gestures. 8:56:08 PM

Why must everything have a name?   Today I used this site to name my Blog.  I don't think it will last.   But damn, it sure was easy! 6:30:05 AM

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