PORT8080.NET

I've finally gotten my site back into a presentable fashion. I tried a few other blogging and/or CMS suites to see if any would suffice. None gave me the control that I wanted without an incredible amount of work to get the suite setup. I've decided, at this point, that it's not worth my time to try to migrate to one of the suites. I'll spend less time writing my own php, and it'll be much more customized. Anyway, I'm off to code more of this site up. I hope to have more frequent update one of these years.

Haven't updated this website in almost a year. I need to get working on a couple of the old projects again. And since I can work on hardware right now (about to move), it'd be a good time to get working on some software ones. I'll hit on my comic system again, start a network documentation system for work (personal project to help me at work), and basic updates to this website. I may even resurrect the old "alt" site. Well, I should probably get back to work...

Added graphing functionality to my super basic petrol MPG tracker. I've used the dygraphs JavaScript Visualization Library. I would prefer the gRaphael library, but this one was much more simple to setup and I hate JavaScript. One of these days, I think I'll move over to something like RRDTool to get the graphing server-side. In the meantime, dygraphs is what I'll be using.

I've started a new project over at SourceForge called Port8080 Web Comic System. I'm writing a web comic display system that's BSD licensed. It'll support all of the fancy features of the popular systems and more. Krazy Krow has kindly allowed me to uses his comic as a test comic for the system. His current main comic is Charlie Horse, but he's also working on Spinnerette. I enjoy the comics, so go check them out.

Due to an unfortunate sequence of events, I'll be migrating the database of port8080.net back to MySQL. I much prefer Postgres, however I'm unable to install MediaWiki against Postgres on BlueHost. MediaWiki needs the tsearch2 plugin, which isn't included in Postgres until 8.3. BlueHost is currently running 8.1. Also, at work I use MySQL on a daily basis, so my experience is much greater with MySQL currently. I plan to move back to Postgres when I host my site on my own servers, but until then MySQL has me in their grasp. And please don't get me started on GPL vs BSD...