Oops, not posted anything in a while, well XSM is the software of the moment! recent additions include: FTP backend UTF-8 default encoding fixes most translation issues last login is stored to help folk see how long they have been idle for on a site Thereis also a new selection of pages on the XSM site including screenshotsof XSM managed sites and some artwork for … Continue reading XSM improvements galore

OK, so back from the wedding now and can honestly say that not only have I never been happier in my entire life, but also that I never realised a single day could encompas so many of the happiest moments of my life!!! The day was fantastic, perfect, special, sunny, cheerful… yes I have run out of ways to describe it, this is the only problem I am encountering – … Continue reading Wedding Bells have rung

OK, so I honestly thought I had seen the end of the crash ramifications, but oh no! Iwent to the opticians about a funny blur in my eye, well – it turns out(they think) that this is a result of my accident. Apparently a smallpiece of tissue has broken off from inside my eye and is now floatingaround indside! Still – apparently my vision is … Continue reading Bang on the head

OK, so it has been a really long time now, but I finally got roundto taking a picture of the damage, so I thought I would write it up. Whencycling home along the cycle paths a few weeks back someidiot-without-helmet-cycling-as-fast-as-he-can fool darted out in frontof me on his bike not looking and not realising that he as on afootpath! Anyhow, after quite a while in … Continue reading Cycling crash

OK, so XSM is moving on again with the addition of a new site –“Get-E.org”. This is a cool new (busy) site for information on gettingE17 onto your system. Better still, for me anyhow, I now have 8 moreusers on XSM updating and uploading content frequently and it isstanding up well! All I need to do is fill in a few missing pieces offunctionality and … Continue reading XSM gains another site

No, you did not read it wrong! I am currently in Italy attending aTechnical Committee meeting by OGC along with many other interestedparties. As it was I was unsure if I would make it along it was agreedthat I could have a couple of days in Rome first to make up for it, andwhat an event that turned out to be! We had obviously heard … Continue reading Deeply moving conference

My content management project (Rectang.coms XSM) is now coming alongwell. The latest deployment now fully generates static sites, so noserver load when viewing pages like on previous versions. This meanseven my blogging .rss files are static, so syndicate away 🙂 This alsoallows greater flexibility in the rendering of content, as the documenttype modules can render more than one file for each input, a-lapermalinks on a … Continue reading Content management strides on

OK, exciting time! Michelles parents came down last week to help outwith the planning and things really sped ahead! Plenty of things sortednow and we are all quite raved! See plenty of you on the day 🙂 Continue reading Wedding arrangements

OK, so after a stike of clarity regarding the nasty Java code resulting from the port from PHP i jotted down a nice new system for generating the page view/edit/etc struture. The coding for this now finished the small number of extra classes (~10 lines each) has meant I can strip out over 200 lines of code just by using java properly. Also made it … Continue reading XSM (my CMS) gets code improvements

Well, it was just incredible – go see it. Now. Seriously! Best animatedfeature I have seen in a long time – beats even Finding Nemo. If you gosee it can someone please explain what the crazy short animation at thestart is about? Continue reading The incredibles