About jard.co.uk archives 2006
This page is the archived change log for the year 2006, please see the current change log for all recent changes. Note that since these are historical records some links may not work and some information may be out of date.
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Recent Additions/Updates
- 31/12/06
Changes to jardSuite/KBase - (non-permalink) GUIDs added to the RSS feeds (finally resolved my previous worries), TTL added to RSS feeds, categories added to RSS feeds. Keywords in KBase changed to support the Rel-Tag Microformat (influenced by playing around with the new Operator extension from Mozilla Labs). Fixed a couple of listview bugs. Fixed a couple of small xHTML validation errors. Refactored and renamed some functions in jardSubs.
Uploaded the latest versions of jardSuite subs (v0.5) and jardSuite jardBRAIN (v0.96)
Robots.txt updated, errors on error pages updated.
- 2/9/06
After recent spam deluges on the Laser Two Land forums, have made a few changes to the code of the registration pages to hopefully prevent spambots from easily registering. More info here and here.
- 3/4/06
Removed unused (and now defunct) FXWeb (WebTracker) tracker images from the index pages of the Laser 2 site, the Gnome site and jardMail. Should help speed up their loading times slightly. Interestingly, noticed that Google must have bought the fxweb.com domain name at some point, if not their entire service/company.
- 1/4/06
Improved Laser 2 Land's validation and cut down page size slightly. Now it's only the forum letting the side down, and hopefully that should be cured when I upgrade to YaBB 2.
- 8/3/06
Changed the Laser 2 Land homepage title from "James' Laser 2 Land" to just "Laser 2 Land", what's strange is that I made this slight rebranding across all the other pages on the site quite a while ago, so I don't know how I missed the <title> tags on the home page!
- 6/3/06
Site (not forum) login scripts/pages cleaned up and updated for speed (as below).
- 22/2/06
As part of the ongoing quest to stop worrying and love Mammon, the SWG pages now have a large Google Ad banner across the bottom, for a trial period while I see if anyone clicks them.
- 16/2/06
Same CGI speed-ups applied to all dynamically created WML/WAP pages on this site, all of the Laser 2 Weather scripts and the quotes generator on jardScripts. Used the opportunity to add further navigation links to the WAP pages, to help us get around.
- 13/2/06
Changes made to jardBRAIN to speed up page generation (now loading a smaller set of CGI routines each time a page is generated).
Changes made to jardSuite Subs to aide network/browser caching of generated pages, should give jardBRAIN a slight speed-up, will also help other other jardSuite apps that use the central login and have fully generated pages (rather then includes).
Minor versions bumped on both.
Will be making similar changes to some of the other apps shortly.
- 6/2/06
Good new/bad news day.
First the bad, the email form on jardMail.co.uk has been disabled (as was done for jard in December last year). Was forced to do this after 150(!!!) very professionally formatted emails were sent from my form, purporting to be from one of my email addresses, to me. And that's only the tip of the iceberg, as it will also have been trying to send them out to members of the general public, making me look like a spammer.
On the good news front remember the MSN competition I entered in December? Well I've only gone and won a second place in it!
- 31/1/06
Added a Laser 2 downloads page to the Laser 2 site, to collect some of the files that I've put up for download in the past.
Updated a couple of pages to follow a recent ALA article's accessibility tips (including Laser 2 Land glossary, NYM Member's Page (don't ask why when its not really used any more) and jardBRAIN/KBase).
Uploaded the latest versions of jardSuite subs and jardSuite jardBRAIN (v0.95), latest changes include a lot of things I can't remember, plus better RSS generation and handling as well as small accessibility changes noted above.
- 5/1/06
Happy New Year!
Switched off the jardMail Christmas theme.
- 2005's archived changes and comments
- 2004's archived changes and comments
- 2003's archived changes and comments
- 2002's archived changes and comments
- 2001's archived changes and comments
- Pre 2001 archived changes and comments
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How this site was created
jard.co.uk is part of the jard network. The jard network (jard.co.uk, jardMail.co.uk and blatchford.org) is owned, created and designed by James Blatchford. Also affiliated with the jard network, but not necessarily part of it are BlokeAtBack and GAThrawn's blogs, these may come under the jard umbrella at some point in the future.
This site is created, maintained and updated by James Blatchford. This site, it's text, images and design are Copyright © 1995-2006 James Blatchford, except where otherwise acknowledged.
Hardware and Software used
All HTML documents, CSS Style Sheets, JavaScript source files, Perl and CGI code in this site were created and edited by hand using either the excellent Araneae, or (previously) Windows Notepad on various Windows versions including NT 4, 95/98, 2000 and XP. Many HTML pages checked with either the CSE HTML Validator or the W3C's HTML, XML or CSS Validators for any errors in the code.
All graphics on this site were created from scratch using PaintShop Pro. All photos on this site were either taken with my Sanyo Digicam VPC-G250 digital camera or scanned from originals using my HP ScanJet 5300C scanner. Image and picture optimisation and manipulation was carried out using Paint Shop Pro, GIF file animations and special effects were added by GIF Construction Set. The only exceptions are the pictures in the advert section which were scanned in from various sources, then optimized using the above programs.
Development and testing were carried out at various times on Netscape Navigator 3.01, Netscape Communicator 4.7x, Netscape 6.x, Mozilla Suite M11-M18 & 0.7-1.7, Mozilla Firefox 1.0 and various other versions and builds of Gecko based web browsers, MS Internet Explorer 3.02, 4.01, 5.01 & 6.
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Thanks
Thanks to everyone for their help, encouragement, criticism, ideas, whatever...
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