Good news– was able to fix the “CAPTCHA code” lay out issue this evening after all. Also made updates to the image gallery code and web frame code. Everything looks good as it stands and we’re almost ready to go final release. This is definitely good news in light of my earlier post. Of course, if you do find anything wrong or have any suggestions be sure to let me know.
Life has a funny way of throwing you some odd ball curves and case in point has been this past week. We’ve seen some major development on df.com over the last few weeks including a new CAPTCHA comment system (that is acting a bit funny on where it sits… working on that lay out issue still) and some look/feel improvements.
Development was held up about a week ago due to personal problems. I was returning home from a family trip to wife’s aunt and uncle’s house for a BBQ on 9/13/09. We went down with my in-laws and youngest daughter. As I was returning my daughter’s car seat to my wife’s car I aggravated a long standing injury in the form of dislocating my shoulder completely. The bone was some 1″ out of the socket and it was extremely painful to say the least. So bad in fact, I had to go to the ER to have a doctor set it.
As a result, I’ve spent the last week completely laid up and unable to even type a blog entry to let you know what was going on. I’m feeling a bit better and tomorrow I’ll be getting an MRI. My orthopedist thinks it should be repairable in surgery and barring any major setbacks I should be back to normal in six months or so. I have since this past Wednesday return to work for full days and that is a good sign.
I’m still sore and until post surgery updates may be intermittent based on the health of my shoulder. You don’t really realize how much you use an arm until you can’t. What delays this will have on my other plans is not know yet, but I’m still trying to figure out a way to continue with Pirate Radio though a delay may be unfortunately inevitable. Like many things in life– we just must wait and see what tomorrow may bring.
I’ve been rather busy toiling away on the site (as if you couldn’t tell). Some recent add on’s and updates to the site are:
Overall we’re about 99 (if not 100) percent operational at this point and with that in mind I’d like to announce we are up to Release Candidate 1. In geek speak, that mean we’re about revision away from the final site. It’s been a lot of work, but as you see it’s starting to pay off.
Once the final new v11 df.com site is in place we’re going to group up on this end and start working on some new things– new Pirate Radio, new artwork, new content, and new music. Plus a few other surprises I’m sure you’ll enjoy. As always, thanks for checking in and be sure to check back to keep up on what we’re up to.
As part of our celebration of digitalflood.com’s Tenth Anniversary we’re dusting off the old blog entries and moving them into the new site. Yes, you too can find out what I was thinking back in the year 2000. To access this content click on the “Classic DF.com” option on the top news article menu.
We’ve fixed an issue with email not being able to be sent to @digitalflood.com. Was a combo of DNS routing and email server configuration issues. I’ve also updated the “DF Staff” page, which was formally known as the “Pirate Radio Cast” and fixed all the missing pictures/links.
Tackled two bugs today not related to the web site itself and more related to some logistical configuration/growing pains with the new server. First we ran into an issue where Firefox 3.5.2 would not render the web page correctly. The main navigation bar was all sorts of screwed up. This turned out to be due to a disk space allocation issue. This issue has been fixed and testing shows clean rendering of all pages since then.
We also ran into an issue where outside viewers could not email any address ending in @digitalflood.com. This was due to some improper routing with our DNS. We have addressed that issue as well and testing again shows email delivery is restored.
We had a large numbers of hits to the site since announcing our upgrade on Facebook and MySpace. I’m glad to see there was some interest in the site. Early feedback seems very positive. As always, let me know what you think and I’ll keep plugging away on this end to push things forward based on that info.