The New Year Kicks Off With...
Wednesday Jan 3 2007
a new house. A new-ish car on the way. Thank family and friends...we feel quite blessed.
a new house. A new-ish car on the way. Thank family and friends...we feel quite blessed.
Some people have asked us what we wanted for Christmas, so we've decided to put the list here. We appreciate the warm holiday wishes.
I took some time today to update the site a little bit. I wanted to make the site a bit more accessible and compliant.
All in all I'm pleased with it. It was alot of work but it should be worth it. Let me know if it ends up breaking stuff
Yes indeed it is! Enjoy!
Just wanted everybody to know that I'm working on getting RSS setup for the site here. Expect something by the end of the week.
Yes, again! PHP sucks, so this is going back to Perl. Bigger and stronger than the last Perl implementation, this will likely be the last update before it's rewritten in Java.
It's interesting how much your code changes after a year or so and you learn more about the technologies you work with. The last Perl version didn't use a database at all, this one uses MySQL. The last one used CSS, but didn't use selectors much at all. The last Perl version was 1 procedural CGI (it was Q+D anyways), this one is several OO modules. I'm using Template Toolkit for this version, which seems to help things stay much, much cleaner. Here's how the code size breaks down:
All in all I'm pretty proud of this edition, I think alot of progress has been made since my last rewrite of this. I'm interested in seeing how the benchmark will compare with the Java version. Guess that has to be written first though huh?
Well it's been a long time coming. I finally got around to renovating this site. It used to run on a 75 line perl CGI that displayed content from text files. Now it runs on PHP and MySQL. Yay! I've joined the masses! Yet another PHP/MySQL page, yet another CMS. I am more excited about the CSS in this actually. The old site was a touch horrid, but this should be much cleaner. Please feel free to send me your comments.
I hope to be adding features to the site soon, but most of the features I'll be adding will be on the admin side so none of you will be able to see it. The exception to that will be the journals. I want to add alerting, comments, and some way of navigating them instead of having them all on one page with 150 entries.
I have also added all of Sekoni's old journal entries from orilonise.domynoes.net, so those are viewable as well. Ugh. Talk about horrible HTML. Who uses center tags anymore, huh? Movable Type, of course!
We added a few more pictures from our wedding that Gumby and Dena took. Thanks guys!
Chris and Kim were married on Febuary 28th of this year. We had the honor of being in the wedding party. It was such a beautiful wedding and we were so happy to be a part of it. Congrats Chris and Kim, and thank you for including us on your special day, we love you (now hurry up and get back from your honeymoon ;)! Pictures are naturally in the gallery, or you can use this link.
We got married on Febuary 7 of this year. Just a little wedding, nothing huge. We decided we had waited long enough so we threw the entire thing together in a week and did it at the courthouse. We zoomed over to Bed Bath and Beyond, Rich's-Macy's and Target and set up gift registries. All our family flew down to see it happen, which was really great. Thank you everyone who came! We put the photos up in our gallery a little while back. You can either browse there from the navigation bar on the left or go here.
Added pictures from Oafetalo and Akua's Wedding. Sure took us long enough.
Added pictures from various Christmas parties. Check them out in the gallery.
A proper photo gallery has been setup. You can get to it from the pictures link on the navbar on the left. So far we just have pictures of our Thanksgiving trip this year but we will add more when we take pictures of other trips and whatnot.