When launching the latest version of www.cypressnorth.com (AKA this site) we came across a very frustrating issue that took us a lot of time to solve. On the homepage we have a carousel of our offerings using jQuery and the excellent jQuery Tools library. It came to our attention that the scrollable element was failing … Continue reading "JQuery Tools…
Read ArticleIn a previous post I discussed how to accomplish cross domain JSON requests and some caveats to be aware of. That example involved a scenario in which you had control of the web service environment and were able to allow the cross domain requests on the server side. But what do you do when this … Continue reading "Cross Domain…
Read ArticleWe all know why Cross Site Scripting can be dangerous, but there are many reason that you might need to do it anyway. In our case, we are developing a website widget that can be pasted into any person’s site with just a small javascript snippet. Once the code is installed (similar to Google Analytics), … Continue reading "Cross Domain…
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In the first part of this series I outlined the idea behind the cookie based affiliate or discount code system being developed. In this post I’ll detail how we are using it and give some examples for consuming the code in a few programming languages.
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For most applications where transactions are taking place, there is a need for some type of discount capability, affiliate tracking, referral code tracking, or a combination of the three. The design of the code used to accomplish this can vary greatly based on the needs of the system, which is why there is generally no … Continue reading "Capturing Referral…
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