Critical Updates

1. Standard upgrades to CMS software.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

1. Thanks to Erik and Lauren Patten, the Window Cam feature is back! It is now powered by a Microsoft LifeCam VX-3000.


2. When the Mount Sutro Gallery was recently migrated to Flickr, it was my intention to update old hyperlinks. Instead, all links to the old gallery simply redirect to the Collections landing page on Flickr as it was too complicated to do it properly.

Outstanding Issues

1. There are no known bugs at this time.

I have maintained a photograph gallery in some form on my website since November 2002. While I was happy with its appearance and how it integrated with the rest of the site, it was not the repository I had originally envisioned. Deciding it was time for a change, I started uploading my photograph collection to Flickr on 11 November 2009.

Although this move is not made casually, I am willing to sacrifice the tight integration in exchange for logistical benefits like unlimited disk space and data transfer—two items for which I had been spending additional money. Despite my move away from it, I continue to recommend Coppermine Gallery as an excellent application with strong theme support for custom image galleries.

As of this update (29 November 2009), I have uploaded all my pictures into sets organized inside six collections: Road Trip Series, Japan Trip Series, Vacation Series, City Tour Series, Friends & Family and Salmagundi.

Some of the sets still need titles and descriptions which will be added as time permits, while other test shots, duplicates and bad pictures will be removed.

The Gallery Feed will keep you apprised of new additions. If you are not already a member of Flickr, I encourage you to create an account so you can post comments, add contacts, select favorites and, as a contact of mine, add notes, tags, and people to my pictures.

Critical Updates

1. Standard upgrades to CMS software.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

1. The Mount Sutro Gallery has been migrated to Flickr. Work is in progress to update old hyperlinks.

Outstanding Issues

1. Several minor, cosmetic issues are here and there, mostly in Internet Explorer.

Critical Updates

1. Standard upgrades to Primary and Gallery CMS software.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

1. Addition of the Linkage window, syndicating my shared links from Google Reader.


2. Addition of social link and bookmark chicklets in the footer of each article.


3. Removal of the Tallahassee Cam until replacement equipment is procured.


4. Although adjustable individually by visitors, the default size of the primary content font has been increased by 1pt to enhance readability.


5. Delectation window modified to remove links to Web and Video (items of this sort will be shared in Linkage instead) and to add Mileage, my car's current odometer and total ownership time.


6. Various minor code updates and visual revisions.

Outstanding Issues

1. Several minor, cosmetic issues are here and there, mostly in Internet Explorer.

Critical Updates

1. Having resided on the same server for over four years, my entire hosting account has been migrated to a new, faster Linux box. The new server features an Intel Xeon quad-core 3.20 GHz with 2 GB memory and by every indication it is blazing fast. All the same, please report any abnormalities you may discover.


2. Upgrade Primary CMS to WordPress 2.7.1, fixing nearly sixty-seven reported issues.


3. Upgrade Gallery CMS to Coppermine 1.4.20, fixing seventeen reported issues.


4. Continuing RSS feed refresh issues have been traced to two sources: the draft/revision features of WordPress and how RSS feeds are regenerated after updates. I disabled all draft/revision features to fix annoyances on the administrative side and to prevent old articles from appearing as new in the RSS feed after the post is viewed in edit mode. To stop article updates from regenerating the RSS feed and showing old posts as new, the WP Minor Edit plugin is now employed.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

1. Various minor code updates and visual revisions.

Outstanding Issues

1. UPDATED: I have discovered several cross-browser issues with Internet Explorer incorrectly rendering certain page elements. This issues will be resolved during the next upgrade cycle, since they are cosmetic in nature (and I do not have to look at them using Firefox). Three specific items: ordered list spacing is too compressed; blockquote padding and coloration are wrong; and comments are indented.

Critical Updates

1. Outstanding RSS issue resolved. All feeds are operating normally. References to former feed locations are redirecting automatically. Depending on how your feed reader is configured, you may have received a number of RSS updates from the site during the repair process. If this is the case, my apologies.

Code, Theme and Feature Updates

1. The two primary feeds, Articles and Comments, are now powered by FeedBurner for maximum compatibility.
2. Another site integration milestone was accomplished with the transfer of all secondary site pages (e.g. About, Contact, etcetera) to the CMS and the server-side reorganization of certain system files. Major code updates were required for this process.
3. Corrected a long-standing issue with page TITLE tags. Each page will now identify itself more precisely for better internal navigation and search engine optimization.
4. Countless visual updates and enhancements, more of which are bound to come with the next code revisions. Those will have to wait for a while, though—since things are working better now, I can focus on developing some content!

Outstanding Issues

1. There are probably a few things I missed during the past few days of work, but there are currently no known issues.