Other Projects

• A test web service: I did not write this web service. I followed an example in a book written about web services. This link will take you the HTML description page where three web methods (two temperature conversions, and a "Hello World") are listed. Feel free to point your web page or application to this web service to do some testing.
• A very, very simple ASP.Net page that simply says "Hello World". This was written in Visual Basic using Visual Studio 2005 Professional.
• A test of the Google Maps API. Anyone can sign up for a API key to the Google Maps server as long as they won't use the maps in a commercial application. Notice how the map is draggable. Through the right Javascript code most, if not all, of the features of the Google Maps page are available.
• My secure page. My whole site can be secure. I just have to preface the URL with https. It seems that the price of SSL certificates has really dropped. My certificate was purchased from Comodo and is considered a domain-validated certificate. It's not quite the same as what companies such as Ebay or Amazon.com use. The latter type are full business validated certificates. On the DV certificates, the certification authority simply makes sure that the purchaser has control over his domain. In the case of Comodo, this is accomplished by sending an email with a special link to the email address on record at the domain registrar.
• A test of embedding a Windows Media Player in a web page. The video in this clip is directly hyperlinked elsewhere on this site, however, that link opens up Windows Media Player application separately. Of course, embedding media players on web pages is done all of the time, but I wanted to learn how to do it. The reason that I decided to learn how to embed a media player was because someone was interested in my video. I did not think that I could load this particular video to Youtube because it was too long. Also, Youtube usually re-encodes the clips and you take a quality hit. The person who wanted a copy of the video for their site initially downloaded my video with the hyperlink and obtained the WMV file. They uploaded it to Photobucket.com where it apparently re-encoded the video. I wasn't happy with the result, so the two of us worked to figure out how to embed a Windows Media Player on their site.
• Pictures of my 2003 Toyota Corolla. I copied this page and the accompanying pictures from my webspace on my ISP's web server. I originally posted the pictures on the web to show some people that I had purchased a new car.
• A list of books that I want. These are published by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL). Basically, I maintain certain wish lists in databases that I keep on my web site. Since my cell phone is usually with me when I am shopping and since I have VCast with Mobile Web 2.0 (from Verizon Wireless), I usually just call up my wish lists on the cell phone when I am in the store.
• Invoked the web service mentioned in the first bullet into a quick web page for my cell phone that allows you to perform temperature conversions. Although in this case, both the web service and the web page itself are on the same web server they certainly don't need to be. As a matter of fact, you can invoke my web service on your web page or in your Windows application. If you do, I would appreciate you sending me an email at webmaster@n8oif.net, just in case I decide to terminate the service. These temperature conversion pages are on my N8OIF WAP page that you can get to via http://wap.n8oif.net. I think that my next web service might be a great circle distance and heading calculator (of use to amateur radio operators).
• Created a custom map on Google Maps using their My Maps feature. The map that I created show the amateur radio Field Day events that I have attended recently. One of the placemarks also includes a short video.
• My location using the amateur radio Findu site. This website relies on data received and gatewayed from the 144.39 MHz APRS network. APRS is the Automatic Packet Reporting System.
• Sample videos shot (pictures also available) at the Columbus Topiary Garden. The purpose of the sample to show the quality that small digital cameras (not a camcorder) are capable of.

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