BurningbirdOriginally published in ASP Today, October 20, 1999 As soon as HTML forms were added to the HTML specification, and CGI use extended to server-side applications, folks immediately thought of using the Web for online stores – the concept of the shopping cart was born. If you’ve ever done any online shopping, you’ve used a shopping cart. […]
Ask folks what class they feared the most in high school and college, and I bet you’ll find that “math”, generally, or “calculus”, specifically, is the answer you’ll get more often than any other. Yet math is really nothing more than a) the ability to apply specific equations and get consistent results, and then b) […]
I decided to spend some time looking at the history of climbing Mt. Everest because of a note I found at the PBS Nova Web site. It seems that a new expedition is heading to Mt. Everest, but the goal of this expedition is rather different than others. You see, we know that Sir Thomas […]
Recently, someone, I’ll call him Joe, sent me an email and asked a question about maintaining shopping cart items using client-side cookies. A shopping cart is basically a program that maintains a list of items that a person has ordered, a list that can be viewed and reviewed and usually modified. Joe had run into […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In 1997 I woke up with a new decision: I wanted to move to Vermont. I talked this over with my now ex-husband and we chatted and thought about it and decided that yes, we would move to Vermont from our home in Portland, Oregon; and move we did, in […]