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First Major Framework Change Since 2000

Duane — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 06:12:34 +0000

Well… I’ve finally gone and done it. I’ve been using a homebrewed framework of some sort for my personal site since 1998 (maybe earlier… my memory isn’t that great any more). First, I used SHTML. Then I started dabbling with PHP3. I eventually stepped up to using MySQL and PHP4 then made some minor changes to update to PHP5. Around the time that I moved to PHP4, I began experimenting with framework ideas that I would eventually apply at work and run several enterprise websites on for about 5 years. I’m also finally consolidating my “portal” website (archived here) and blog/personal site into www.leinninger.com, rather than using a non-search-friendly subdomain. I’ve finally jumped ship for WordPress. Why? I guess I just want to fit in. It seems that the internet loves WordPress and there’s a lot to be said for doing things the same way as a lot of other folks. I don’t spend as much time maintaining my site as a I used to and the tools developed by thousands of folks are more rich and diverse than those I can come up with on my own. I will still do some interesting custom stuff ( like the modified moblog viewer plugin on the homepage), but for now, I’m liking the simplicity and organization of an app designed for blogging. And yes, Brad… I finally have comments.

Archived System Update

Duane — Wed, 17 Jun 2009 04:00:00 +0000

Since I’ve upgraded my desktop to a new iMac, my old Dual G5 Power Mac is now the primary server for Leinninger.com, Brat-Patrol.com, and other hosted sites. There may be some oddities for a little while as I complete the migration, but so far, it was fairly painless.

Archived System Update

Duane — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 04:00:00 +0000

I noticed that the webcam images in the right hand column were taking a while to render, causing the rest of the page to stall before completing. I rearranged the columns in the code and updated the CSS so the rest of the page would render before trying to build-out the right-column.

Archived System Update

Duane — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 04:00:00 +0000

Google is hosting our email and extended apps. This keeps me from worrying every time there’s a power or network outage in my area. It also give my family faster account access and many more features than when everything was hosted on my local server. Websites and applications still reside on my OS X server.

Archived System Update

Duane — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 04:00:00 +0000

I’ve added the ability for multiple users to add news, updates, and even changelog entries (which you’re reading now). This means we should be seeing updates from Gina soon!

Archived System Update

Duane — Mon, 03 Mar 2008 05:00:00 +0000

Since I’m already a .Mac subscriber, I’ve switched my moblog to use that service. There are no limits apart from total storage… which at my current pace should not be maxed out for some time. The old moblog is still available on Flickr.

Archived System Update

Duane — Fri, 29 Feb 2008 05:00:00 +0000

I’ve added a Twitter status widget to the sidebar. I’ve also added a new cam item to the webcam module: the basement project. You’ll be able to watch us when we’re working and monitor our progress.

Archived System Update

Duane — Fri, 28 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0000

I’ve managed to edit and link my travel log from our recent trip to Hawaii. There are plenty of links a the .Mac gallery of photos from the vacation.

Archived System Update

Duane — Wed, 05 Dec 2007 05:00:00 +0000

Apart from a drive failure over a year ago, this server has been running very well. We updated our electrical system in the house from 80 amps to 200 with a dedicated circuit for the server rack. This has allowed interference-free X10 communication as well as more stable power levels for the server and external drives. An external Network Attached Storage (NAS) device has been added to take care of video and music sharing and distribution on the internal network rather than placing the workload on the physical server.

Archived System Update

Duane — Fri, 08 Sep 2006 04:00:00 +0000

I’ll be moving the homepage over to a more blog/dashboard oriented design shortly. I haven’t written an article in some time and I think a lot use would come out of having recent blog updates, flickr images, etc. on the homepage. You should see the changes trickle through soon.

Archived System Update

Duane — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 04:00:00 +0000

I’ve finally hooked up one of the cameras at our new house. It points our my office window on the second floor into the front yard. You can’t see much, but it’s a start.

Archived System Update

Duane — Tue, 06 Dec 2005 05:00:00 +0000

I’ve added a bit of logic to break the news info page into 10-record chunks. You can still get the whole news update page by clicking on the “View All” link at the top.

Archived System Update

Duane — Thu, 01 Dec 2005 05:00:00 +0000

I like Google… a lot. I use their maps, their stats, and just about eveerything else they give away. I’ve recently added Google AdSense. The ads you see on the site should be related to the content on the site.

Archived System Update

Duane — Fri, 30 Sep 2005 04:00:00 +0000

Leechers beware. If you try to leech images from my site, you might get a nasty surprise! Some unfortunate myspace.com users thought it would be nice to steal images of Steve-O, Surfers, and Gorillas… now they’re seeing a nasty mod_rewrite trick: Link not for the faint of heart…

Archived System Update

Duane — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 04:00:00 +0000

The moblog now creates a latest image thumbnail on the fly. This was needed as my new Treo 650 does not capture picture below 320×200. So, I figured I would moblog at 640×480, and store a thumbnail on the local server for fast display in the moblog module. The moblog checks if the date of the RSS is newer than that of the thumbnail. If so, it updates the thumbnail from the latest image in the Flickr XML. Speaking of XML, the old RSS parser that I was useing was TEH SUCK. So, I’ve switched to one that I wrote a while back. It converts XML into nice PHP arrays. I’ll be converting the moblog page to one of my own design when time allows.

Archived System Update

Duane — Wed, 31 Aug 2005 04:00:00 +0000

The randomcam is back after a brief outage to to hardware issues.

The SMS module on the homepage is working again as well. I have switched cellular providers, and the new service is much better.

Archived System Update

Duane — Thu, 19 May 2005 04:00:00 +0000

An archived shockwave/Quicktime-VR/HTML project from college has been fixed and is available for viewing. Enjoy.

Archived System Update

Duane — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000

For some time, there have been issues displaying floating items within the main content area of this site. This has been corrected.

Archived System Update

Duane — Thu, 20 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000

I’ve added Sebastian to the pets section!

Archived System Update

Duane — Thu, 06 Jan 2005 05:00:00 +0000

Leinninger.com has been migrated to a new server:

Dual 500 mHz
1.25 gb RAM
1/4 Terabyte RAID array
OS X Server 10.3

In addition to the previous tasks (home control, media hosting, web services, ldap, email, webcams) it also acts as a primary Windows domain controller for the few remaining XP machines on the Leinninger.com network.