Junk Drawer Mind
Portfolio and Blog of Curtis Lawrence
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Image Gallery
Wed, 12/26/2007 - 11:19 — curtlawUPDATE 2:
The gallery
is in fact working, If you quickly switch between galleries within 60 seconds it floods the
CPU and causes the site to go down for a minute.
This also applies if more than one person is viewing the gallery, ive clocked it to be about 5-10 viewers bring it down if they access within the same minute.
this is a huge user interface error and I am working on a fix. so please be patient and understanding during this development process.In order to maintain
the images on the site, ive left the defective gallery module active
till I have time to figure out whats causing this problem.
If You come across a "this account has been suspended" please come back after a minute to see if its calmed down.
Again, im sorry for any inconvenience
Technical Difficulties
Sun, 12/23/2007 - 11:01 — curtlawUPDATE: Gallery is now up and running
Well the image gallery has been taken down due to the fact there was a bug in the plug in (the same one i was having issues with before) that caused massive CPU usage. That caused the site to shut down for a few minutes if i edited the gallery in any way. or even viewed the gallery.
the images are still on the server, just not visible for the time being, hopefully in a few days ill have this sorted out
Learning Curve
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 11:44 — curtlawWhilst updating the site I have come across many obstacles. Many were either too large to figure out or something not to waste my time with... In the past I have in the period of a weekend learned Action scripting. In retrospect isn't that difficult of a language. The language is pretty fluid and the "rules" are easily bent to meet requirements. Now PHP is another story.
I learned HTML by accident then the CSS rules just to keep up. PHP is something I have avoided due to the fact I wouldn't really use it all that often because I'm not a web developer. PHP was one of the obstacles that i either had to get through or ignore.
So guess what I've been doing the past 2 days? Yep, learning PHP to fix two lines of code! TWO LINES! It was worth it, because now the gallery images are all scaled properly. I had to fix the Brilliant Gallery module for Drupal. it was just the matter of figuring out how PHP worked.
Still Under Development
Fri, 12/21/2007 - 05:57 — curtlawPlease remember the site is still under development, features that appeared to be a good idea may have less functionality than previously thought. With this being the case things will move around, or be removed completely if its not functional.
Having the site closed during development wouldn't be wise because only through use can I figure out what is working and what is not. If you find links pointing to a dead page, don't hesitate to email me or leave a comment.
