Diary

It was many months ago now (back in November of last year no less), that I decided it was about time I re-designed this site to use purely semantic HTML and CSS for all the styling. After much experimentation with CSS, and several throw away designs, I came up with what we see now. Traditionally such a layout would require complex HTML tables, but after alot of reading around I gained a new level of understanding of CSS positioning, and managed to transform the very simple HTML into a layout which displays remarkably consistently across Mozilla, Internet Explorer, Opera and Konquerer. The beauty is that now I've got the HTML sussed, I can play around with the CSS at will specifying multiple Alternate Stylesheets for testing until deciding upon a new 'live' style. While I've not quite reached my original goal of working on a Next Cube with the original web browser, I'm orders of magnitude closer that I was this time a year ago.

After a lot more work documenting the configuration parameters for the builder, Test-AutoBuild 1.0.2 release is now available. As well as the documentation improvements, there are two new HTML status page features. First is simply the ability to create arbitrary hyperlinks, second is a facility for copying build artifacts to the website, for example test results.

I'm in the process of switching over to using the PHP Gallery software for managing my photos. Pictures from the BVI, New York & Philadelphia are now online in the new gallery. Many more will be uploaded when I finally get around to buying a Nikon Coolscan and processing the several thousand photos I've accumulated over past year.