2009-04-13

New homepage look

I have rearranged my homepage. Added a new skin, reorganized the content a bit, added contact page etc. The typography bothers me too but I would need a lot of time to make it uniform and I wanted to publish the site as quick as possible.

Every comment is welcome. I would very much appreciate ideas that help me make the site better.

2009-04-09

BNR currency exchange rate widget ready

As you can see I added the latest version of the BNR currency exchange rate widget to the page's sidebar below the links section.

The site is ready, I translated it to 3 languages. Enjoy it!

Let me know if you have any suggestions! You can use the Digsby widget embedded in the page or the EnchangeRates contact page.

Double page load/postback

I have spent 3 days once to figure out why an ASPX page does a double page postback when it shouldn't. The first request was OK, then immediately a second postback followed without the post data. This strange behavior occurred only in Firefox.

I discovered what the issue was:
I had an image control on the page with it's src attribute empty. Firefox uses the current page's URL as the src of the image. Hence the second postback.

This guy explains it better than me:

Programmer goodie

2009-04-05

BNR currency exchange rate widget

I just finished putting together an embeddable website widget that displays the BNR's currency exchange rate for RON.
It looks like this:



Everyone is welcome to get on. Go to the ExchangeRates homepage customize your own widget, grab the code and put it in your website.
The following properties are customizable:
  • Language (Currently three supported, more to come)
  • Displayed currencies (Currently four, more on demand)
  • Title
  • Date
Enjoy it!