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Ben Holmen

Send your Christmas cards & letters by e-mail this year!

Just one of our designs

Just one of our designs

I’m pleased to announce the launch of my second online business, Mistle Mail. This new service allows you to customize your own Christmas e-mail with your own photos, text, and Christmas letter, while we worry about delivering it to your friends and family. It’s an economical and eco-friendly approach to sending your holiday greetings this year! You can send an unlimited number of emails for one low price.

Megan and I would love to hear some feedback on the service! Please check it out and let us know what you think.

Filed under: Uncategorized — Ben @ 10:42 pm November 2, 2009

jQuery: $(‘#formID’).submit() issue

I ran across a strange conflict today while working with jQuery and a form. My form was doing nothing when I called the jQuery .submit(); function — no errors, but no submit. My code:

$('input.saveApplication').bind('click', function() {
... other code ...
$('#application').submit();
});

The issue was caused by having an element with ID ‘submit’:
<input type='submit' id='submit' value='Submit'>

Once I realized what was happening it made sense but it wasn’t immediately intuitive to me. If you have this error double check your IDs and rename as needed!

Filed under: Web Design — Ben @ 3:27 pm March 12, 2009

E-mail Counts for 2008

As a professional web developer I have to deal with a fair share of e-mail messages every day. I like to look back at the end of year when I archive my old e-mails and tally up how many I’ve received in the last 12 months — this year it was 5,018 inbound and 2,398 hand-crafted outgoing e-mails for a total of 7,416 or about 30 e-mails sent and received each working day.

Filed under: Web Design — Ben @ 5:03 pm January 19, 2009

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