Justin Cooney

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I am a Senior Applications Programmer / Analyst with years of experience developing enterprise solutions using the Microsoft technology stack including C#, VB.NET, ASP.NET, AJAX, IIS and SQL Server. I specialize in Web application development with a focus on building secure systems, integrating applications, and designing robust database structures.

  • JQuery Editable Select List – How to Duplicate the Value into a Text Box as it is Being Entered

    Editable Select List Text Duplication
    Editable Select List Text Duplication

    Editable Select lists are a useful feature offered by JQuery through the JQuery-Ui ComboBox widget.

    In an earlier article I explained how to set up a basic JQuery ComboBox widget, which I will expand on in today’s article.

    So what is this article about? Bottom line is that I wanted to create something that looks like the above image, except that I wanted the duplication area to remain hidden when the form was to be submitted. How it should work is that as a user either types into the editable select list, or selects a value from the list of options, the text entered/selected should immediately be duplicated to a hidden area. For demonstration purposes, though, I have left the duplication area visible so that you can see the logic in action.

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  • VS2010 Custom Outlook Folder View Including UDFs (User Defined Fields)

    If you are building an Outlook Add-In application with Visual Studio, it’s likely that at some point you will want programmatic control over the information that Outlook shows in a specific email folder.

    For instance, let’s say that you have code that automatically backs up sent emails to a custom folder hierarchy. So if the email you sent includes sample code, then the email should be automatically backed up into a custom sub-folder called “Sample Code” that exists within your custom “Programming” folder within your Outlook mailbox. If that sounded confusing, here’s an image of what I’m talking about:

    +Mailbox
  |_Programming
          |_Notes
          |_Sample_Code
          |_General
  |_Sent Items
  |_Etc...

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  • Claim a WordPress.com Blog on Alexa

    Alexa.com is one of the big players in the search engine business that has been around since 1996. Although it isn’t as large as Google.com or Bing.com, it plays a unique and important role.

    Specifically, Alexa openly gives detailed site metrics and traffic reporting with its search results that a large number of tools and people use when evaluating a Web site. Also, Alexa has an extensive set of APIs and Web Services that are commonly used by a large number of third party search tools

    Alexa is a subsidiary of Amazon.com, and so in my opinion it is likely to continue to grow in stature along with Amazon. As well, it has close ties to both Google and the Open Directory Project, which are both prominent players in the search world.

    So bottom line here is that getting your site into Alexa and having it properly catalogued is pretty important.

    But the process of claiming your site in Alexa is not easy if you are trying to claim a WordPress.com site. There is a lot of mis-information out there as well as incompletely written instructions (including on the Alexa FAQ site itself). I found this out the hard way today.

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