My last time was probably when I managed to complete my first
interactive, vector-data generated map, or perhaps it was the last
mapping site I made :) They all pretty much make me feel good when
they're finished.

The most recent thing (computers in general) that made me feel "wow" was
my sudden ability to use Photoshop and produce nice looking stuff :D

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Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

When the payment cheque cleared?

Cheers
Richard.

When I managed to upload index.html to the proper directory.

Heh! I think I can go one better than that... how about when you manage
to upload index.html to the proper *server* :D

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http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

<g>

In which case I could add that I had a wow-effect when I first managed
to make letters and angled brackets appear as colours and lines on a
computer screen. Or even the first time I dialed the 'number of the
Internet' and saw a real site, had a live connection! :-)

--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vo. O resto imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
Now playing: David Bowie - Sound And Vision

I remember thinking "wow" in an ironic sense when I first <shudder/>
used AOL. I had just signed up for the account (using a free X months
disc, which I intended to cancel after X) and within twenty minutes I
had sent to my brand-spanking-new, not even given out to my friends
yet, email address! :)

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Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

Well, I recently put a new look on the work website and included a cool
thing which takes a bit of explaining.

The site is designed so the content is almost 100% swappable. This makes
it very easy to substitute new translations. Right now all we have is
English and Chinese, but the fact that you can switch from one to the
other on *any* page (rather than on an introductory page only) was
something I was always proud of.

However, the link to go to and from the Chinese version was always
available, even if the user a) didn't understand Chinese, b) didn't even
have a Chinese font available to display the characters.

So I took a few minutes today to delve into the skunk-werks and do a
little parsing of the Accept-Language request header, and made it so the
link is only shown if Chinese is one of the languages the client says it
can understand.

Just a small thing, only took me a few minutes, but I thought it was cool,
nonetheless ;)

Grey

--
The technical axiom that nothing is impossible sinisterly implies the
pitfall corollary that nothing is ridiculous.
- http://www.greywyvern.com/ringmaker - Orca Ringmaker: Host a web ring
from your website!

I did something like that recently in Welsh and English for a local
council (Conwy Borough). I can tell you that I was damn proud of the way
it worked too! Wiped the smiles off the smug "webteam" that's for sure :D

My particular favourite part was the ability to switch from English to
Welsh and back *after* having submitted a form, and having the same
posted data shown *without* having the form resubmitted.

--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org -- Where the Music Progressively Rocks!

Im more SysAdmin than webmaster so I guess it would be the fan site I did
for a game called Dominions 2. Every night a "cron" job generates random
maps for the game. The sizes are tiny, small, medium, large, huge, and
epic. The maps come in 3 color styles. Each of the 6 size categories gets
30 new maps a day (10 in each color style) for a total of 180 new maps
every day. The results are shown as thumbnails. Clicking a thumbnail shows
a larger view, and a link to download the map as a zipped file.

Gandalf Parker
-- Dominions 2 : the Ascension Wars.
A Windows, Linux, Mac OS-X, Solaris Multi-Player strategy game of
Domination and Godhood. WARNING: This game is dangerously addictive
strategy game. This game is NOT suitable for students, interns,
apprentices, or anyone else who is expected to pass tests on a regular
basis.

When I made an error in my .htaccess and over 300 visitors got a 500. That
made me wow :-(

My last WOW will be on line in August, I hope.

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You mean your latest?

--
Els http://locusmeus.com/
Sonhos vem. Sonhos vo. O resto imperfeito.
- Renato Russo -
Now playing: Squeeze - Black Coffee In Bed

That's what I was about to say/write/scrawl!

--
Dylan Parry
http://electricfreedom.org -- Where the Music Progressively Rocks!

No last, after that it will be WOW!!! (note the three !!!) ;-)

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Does pre-web BBS count?

If so, it was when I went online with my BASIC-written BBS program running
on my Apple II+ and the first user called - the auto-answer circuit I had
built for my 300-baud modem clicked, the driver sensed the status change,
and the program fired up :)

Haven't quite had a WOW like that for awhile!

--
Tony Garcia
Web Right! Development
Riverside, CA
www.WebRightDevelopment.com

Getting my sliding-block puzzles working in JavaScript form after
finding out from some websites posted to AWW that JavaScript can
be used for more than just obfuscation in phishes or telling Lynx
users to f*ck off.

http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/JSNSPuz.html -- 34 moves
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/MHPuzzle.html -- 76 moves
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/AMPuzzle.html -- 103 moves

--
Windows is *not* a "Toy OS".
I gave up trying to hide the URL for the screenshot of my desktop:
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~af380/MyDeskTop-Jun-22-2005.gif

I'd say last Friday when I finally finished a system that controls the
store displays, shopping cart data, product management and control,
picking/packing/shipping lists, order control and sales reporting - all for
six different domains (well, owned by the same parent company, but six
separate brandings)

Definetely sat back and thought "Now *this* is good work - a janitor could
run all six stores with no training" :)

--
Marc Bissonnette
CGI / Database / Web Management Tools: http://www.internalysis.com
Looking for a new ISP? http://www.canadianisp.com

Oh yeah! That was probably one of my most-est 'wow' moments. Getting
Qmodem setup on an old 286 back in 1993-ish and having the first caller (my
now husband) connecting successfully. That was pretty cool.

--Tina

I'm still waiting for that to happen the first time.
--
Red

A long time back maybe '95 or thereabouts I had a boss that was frankly a
bit of a jerk. The office had just one net connected PC - out in
reception. He brought me a floppy disk to analyse asking if I could read
the file it contained. Well of course I could but it was simply a
shortcut file containing a URL to what promised to be a russian
site. It turned out one of his mates had 'saved' this erotica for him and
he was ever so disappointed that he would have to actually pay to view -
remember those days when you had to pay for your conection by the minute?
Did I say jerk? I meant tight-fisted jerk, of course.

--
William Tasso

** Business as usual

sweet in its simplicty

have you considered making a port of Chips Challenge? assuming there isn't
already one.

--
William Tasso

** Business as usual

Pun intended? In anyevent it made me chuckle...

Matt

The last time...

Having spent 5 months programming animation and making 600 electrical
connections for the Grinch in Myer windows
(http://www.myer.com.au/christmas/windows.asp). It took a 31 hour
straight shift to do the final install on the Friday and into Saturday.
channel 9 news, Channel 7 news, The Age, Herald sun, The mayor and
several other dignitaries and over 100,000 people were there (Seriously,
if any one here lives in Melbourne, they'll vouch for this). All the
controls were run over the internet to a GUI I made on good old Mozzie.

The kabuki curtain came down... And it worked... I had control over the
six windows from my PC... WOW.

The last time...

Having spent 5 months programming animation and making 600 electrical
connections for the Grinch in Myer windows
(http://www.myer.com.au/christmas/windows.asp). It took a 31 hour
straight shift to do the final install on the Friday and into Saturday.
channel 9 news, Channel 7 news, The Age, Herald sun, The mayor and
several other dignitaries and over 100,000 people were there (Seriously,
if any one here lives in Melbourne, they'll vouch for this). All the
controls were run over the internet to a GUI I made on good old Mozzie.

The kabuki curtain came down... And it worked... I had control over the
six windows from my PC... WOW.

The last time...

Having spent 5 months programming animation and making 600 electrical
connections for the Grinch in Myer windows
(http://www.myer.com.au/christmas/windows.asp). It took a 31 hour
straight shift to do the final install on the Friday and into Saturday.
channel 9 news, Channel 7 news, The Age, Herald sun, The mayor and
several other dignitaries and over 100,000 people were there (Seriously,
if any one here lives in Melbourne, they'll vouch for this). All the
controls were run over the internet to a GUI I made on good old Mozzie.

The kabuki curtain came down... And it worked... I had control over the
six windows from my PC... WOW.

Having spent 5 months programming animation and making 600 electrical
connections for the Grinch in Myer windows
(http://www.myer.com.au/christmas/windows.asp). It took a 31 hour
straight shift to do the final install on the Friday and into Saturday.
channel 9 news, Channel 7 news, The Age, Herald sun, The mayor and
several other dignitaries and over 100,000 people were there (Seriously,
if any one here lives in Melbourne, they'll vouch for this). All the
controls were run over the internet to a GUI I made on good old Mozzie.

The kabuki curtain came down... And it worked... I had control over the
six windows from my PC... WOW.

The last time...

Having spent 5 months programming animation and making 600 electrical
connections for the Grinch in Myer windows
(http://www.myer.com.au/christmas/windows.asp). It took a 31 hour
straight shift to do the final install on the Friday and into Saturday.
channel 9 news, Channel 7 news, The Age, Herald sun, The mayor and
several other dignitaries and over 100,000 people were there (Seriously,
if any one here lives in Melbourne, they'll vouch for this). All the
controls were run over the internet to a GUI I made on good old Mozzie.

The kabuki curtain came down... And it worked... I had control over the
six windows from my PC... WOW.

..Mak.

Are you sure? ;)

--
Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

yea... that's a wow.. for sure.

My first web page ever made had a black bg, lime green txt and so many ani's
you'd a thought you had to hold onto your monitor it was shaking so damn
bad...
The first web host I ever used, some Canadian outfit, told me they didn't
support users with HTML info requests.
Needless to say, the succeeding ones were... we'll you get the idea.

Now here it is... years later.
Some things... well... they never change.

;)

LOL,

As you can see I had a teeeny bit of trouble with Tbird on my Red Hat box.

..Mak.

Right - but that's still no excuse for skipping the P/E quote/sig.


--
William Tasso

** Business as usual

Meh. Doesn't bother me, as long as it's *my* sig that folk forget to
trim off :)

--
Dylan Parry
http://webpageworkshop.co.uk -- FREE Web tutorials and references

My fault: P/E --> Private Eye

--
William Tasso

** Business as usual

From what I hear, lots are having issues with Tbirdy.

LOL!

The Honourable Mak hasn't been here for donkeys years, then he returns with
a bang!

--
Charles Sweeney
http://CharlesSweeney.com

LMAO...

Hi Charles, I did cancel them but once they're downloaded...

I'm sure Tbird isn't supposed to post from every address at the domain,
Methinks I'll be spending some time in alt.test with that setup (Using OE on
XP box for this post)

--
"Tennis is a funny game; unbelievable highs and the lows are just as low..."
(JOHN MCENROE) BBC1 - For Bill Tasso

http://www.private-eye.co.uk

Thank you :)

Meaning has once again been restored to my usenet existence.

--
William Tasso

** Business as usual