News

  • Photo Galleries updated
  • 16/02/2010
  • Some people might have noticed that the Photo Galleries on this site were behaving in an unexpected way. Instead of a popup with the photo, the photo was loaded in the main browser window. This site uses the SilverStripe CMS system. A Photo Gallery module was made available for this CMS, but was abandoned some while ago. New versions of SilverStripe introduced some incompatibilities with this module, resulting in some code changes to applied each time when SilverStripe was updated. After the last update, I decided to resolve the issue in a more permanent way.
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  • Site in Holiday mode (updated)
  • 02/08/2009
  • It is the holiday season again. That means that a lot of people without properly updated computers and virus scanners have turned on their system again. I think botnets must be growing wildly during this season. One of the results from that is that spam prevention services like Mollom cannot keep up. This site got spammed by lots of IP numbers not yet registered in the Mollom database. I have a script running that takes all new comments offline within the our for me to review it. I'm getting tired of sifting through all the junk and maybe missing that one valid comment (on don't get too much of those). So till the holiday season is ended none of the blog articles will accept any comments. The site contact form too is taken offline.
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  • Broken items on the site
  • 28/03/2009
  • Some things on this site haven't been working as they should. For instance, search was broken on the homepage and blog entries, the photo galleriesdidn't work beyond the first page and comments have been disabled (again) for some time.
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