Petrol Tracking Gets Graphs
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.
2010-03-10
Started A New Project
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.
2010-03-09
Moving back to MySQL
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...
2009-08-14
Project Pages available!
This is the first real update to the site in a couple of months. The last was removing index.html so the framework could take over. Today's update bring project pages to the website. I built the class today that displays projects with an index, table of contents (list of steps), and a page for each step. Hopefully it's fast enough, being it's coming from a database. Now I just have to populate the database with the projects. Also, the framework class needs a little refining (mainly error handling), but it works and is online. Until next time...
2009-04-05
Still Under Construction
I moved the front page from the old static one to this nice dynamic one. I'm going to work on the site a bit today, as it needs it and I won't have to think to much after yesterday's adventure into drunkeness. The next updates that I'm planning on will include:
- Finish Machine Pages
- Add Project Pages
- Add an artwork page
- Add a file gallery
May not be in that order.
We'll see how much I get done tonight. Cheers!
2009-04-03
