News
RSS Feeds are Back
I have just coded new RSS feeds - a feature that the old site had but I temporarily lost as I switched to the new codebase. But now it's even better than before - as well as the news feed which the old site always had, I now have a new photos feed.
Check out the RSS page
Completely new site
Today I'm launching my new web site, which I have completely re-designed and re-coded. It's not completely finished (I need to add a lot more content to the Projects section), and my news stories don't have an RSS feed yet, but it is already so much better than my old site that I am launching it anyway
The photo gallery is one of the most improved parts of the site in my opinion, so make sure you take a look at that.
Server Updates and Downtime
If you tried to access our sites in the last two days, you may have found that they were unavailable, or broken... This is because we were doing a lot of cleaning and updates.
I uninstalled a lot of unwanted programs, and installed a new virus scanner, which found a few trojans and a lot of adware. I also updated the firewall (the old one was really playing up) and updated PHP and MySQL.
We're running the newest versions of these now, as opposed to before where we were running MySQL 3.2... PHP should also run faster, as it's now installed as a module, instead of through CGI. Still, we need a faster pipe to take advantage of it...
The eventual goal is to move the server over to Fedora, but there are some things we need to sort out first.
You may have also noticed that I updated the tab bar at the top of my site. I based it off the tabs in the K2 Wordpress theme, and I think it looks much better than before.
XHTML Compatibility
I fixed the errors in my site that were causing it to not validate as XHTML strict today. This involved adding and XML namespace to the html tag, and removing the ad server I was using.
-Stephen
More Fire Photos
I added some more fire photos recently, the most impressive (well, at least in my opinion) of which was this one:
Check them all out in the photo gallery.