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Changelog 2012-09-08
Saturday, 08 September 2012, 0221

Photo Credit: David July --- JR East Shinkansen Platform Sign, Shin-Yokohama Station, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 17 March 2008

Critical Updates

  1. Standard upgrades to CMS software.
     

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

  1. UPDATE: Twitter on sidebar and standalone page enhanced.
  2. REMOVE: Window Cam on sidebar.
     

New and Outstanding Issues

  1. There are no known issues at this time.
     
Photo Credit: David July


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Changelog 2011-10-29
Saturday, 29 October 2011, 1410

Photo Credit: David July --- JR East Shinkansen Platform Sign, Shin-Yokohama Station, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 17 March 2008

Critical Updates

  1. Standard upgrades to CMS software.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

  1. UPDATE: RSS feeds no longer hosted by FeedBurner (more information).

  2. REMOVE: Linkage sidebar. Linkage now on Twitter (more information).

New and Outstanding Issues

  1. There are no known issues at this time.

Photo Credit: David July



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The Dark Clouds Loom
Saturday, 29 October 2011, 1405

Photo Credit: David July --- High voltage electrical box 3756S28 with two way feed, Forest Street at Tupelo Street, Seaside, Florida, 26 November 2010

RSS Feeds
FeedBurner feeds will be discontinued today. They should redirect from Google for thirty days, but you should update your subscriptions immediately. The shortcut links below are to the new locations, hosted locally, at Flickr and at Twitter respectively.

http://www.mountsutro.org/feed/
http://www.mountsutro.org/comments/feed/
http://www.mountsutro.org/flickr-feed/
http://www.mountsutro.org/twitter-feed/

Linkage
The Linkage feed through Google Reader will be discontinued today. Future Linkage will appear on Twitter.

I have always preferred to run everything on this site locally, without relying on third-party services. On a few occasions in 2009, I lightened up on this policy and expanded a few things outside my control.

Most notably, I migrated the photograph gallery to Flickr, started using Google Reader to publish shared links of interest ("Linkage") and began providing RSS feeds through FeedBurner. Overall, I have been pleased enough with these arrangements.

Flickr
While I continue to worry about the future of Flickr under Yahoo!, my experience there has been excellent. Although my primary motive was to reduce the overhead in managing the gallery and costs of hosting, the unanticipated result has been the far-wider audience my pictures have received worldwide.

I am no fan of the JavaScript or Flash only options for displaying recent uploads. Making mass edits is still far more cumbersome now; previously I could download the database, make batch updates and upload. I was also so frustrated by Flickr's outdated built-in Creative Commons license that I now just link to the license here. But so long as the service remains essentially the same, I will continue to pay for a Pro subscription and keep my images on Flickr.

Google Reader
Since I was already using Google Reader as my RSS aggregator, using its sharing feature to publish Linkage was a logical progression. I enjoyed the fact that this content could be viewed as a list in the sidebar, on a stand-alone page with images and via RSS.

Yesterday I learned of Google's plans to "clean things up" as they said, referring to the discontinuation of sharing, following and friending inside Reader. Instead, new Google+ integration is designed to take over. By forcing this change, the usefulness of this product for me has just gone to zero.

Mozilla Thunderbird, my first choice as an alternative RSS reader, has so far proven to meet my needs. I did not find any add-ons to share feeds from Thunderbird, so I will now be posting Linkage on Twitter. This works immediately, the only issue being that my script does not yet interpret the newish Twitter shortlinks (e.g. http://t.co/AkgyGG0v). With that fixed, I think this will work out fine. UPDATE: this issue has been resolved.

FeedBurner
Finally, I have decided that the cons outweigh the pros with regard to using FeedBurner. I had originally sought the compatibility features and web front-end, but I find that my site's feeds are often delayed for no reason. RSS is ubiquitous and while Chrome still mysteriously has no internal means of displaying feeds, the other four major browsers now do.

I hate that it may be a hassle for those two or three subscribers to update their feed software, but think it is better to cut this cord before I have an even more compelling reason to do so.

Photo Credit: David July


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The Tenth Anniversary
Monday, 26 September 2011, 0047

Celebrating 10 Years



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Changelog 2011-07-16
Saturday, 16 July 2011, 1547

Photo Credit: David July --- JR East Shinkansen Platform Sign, Shin-Yokohama Station, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 17 March 2008

Critical Updates

  1. Standard upgrades to CMS software.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

  1. EDIT: Sidebar windows order changed.

  2. EDIT: Minor code and formatting updates.

New and Outstanding Issues

  1. There are no known issues at this time.

Photo Credit: David July



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Changelog 2011-03-27
Sunday, 27 March 2011, 1426

Photo Credit: David July --- JR East Shinkansen Platform Sign, Shin-Yokohama Station, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 17 March 2008

Critical Updates

  1. Database updated and optimized.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

  1. ADD: IMG support for comments.

  2. EDIT: All site RSS feeds (Main, Comments, Linkage, Flickr and Twitter) now appear as subscription options in supported browsers.

  3. EDIT: Header photographs for Article Archive, Contact and Exit Piazza.

  4. EDIT: Comment footer formatting.

  5. EDIT: Minor code and formatting updates.

  6. DELETE: Extraneous links section at end of each changelog.

New and Outstanding Issues

  1. There are no known issues at this time.

Photo Credit: David July



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Changelog 2011-03-16
Wednesday, 16 March 2011, 1936

Photo Credit: David July --- JR East Shinkansen Platform Sign, Shin-Yokohama Station, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 17 March 2008

Critical Updates

  1. Standard upgrades to CMS software.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

  1. ADD: Twitter page with 20 most recent tweets.

  2. ADD: Twitter link to Welcome window and site footers.

  3. EDIT: Gallery links renamed Flickr.

  4. DELETE: Front Page link from Welcome window.

New and Outstanding Issues

  1. There are no known issues at this time.

Photo Credit: David July



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Changelog 2011-02-06
Sunday, 06 February 2011, 0734

Photo Credit: David July --- JR East Shinkansen Platform Sign, Shin-Yokohama Station, Yokohama, Kanagawa, Japan, 17 March 2008

Critical Updates

  1. Standard upgrades to CMS software.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

  1. ADD: Sutro Tower icon to my comments.

  2. EDIT: Linkage window formatting.

  3. EDIT: Delectation transformed "Lunch" and "Dinner" into "Eatery."

  4. DELETE: Category tag cloud on the Article Archive page.

New and Outstanding Issues

  1. There are no known issues at this time.

Photo Credit: David July



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