http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification earthli News 3.7 en-us 720 <![CDATA[earthli.com > earthli News 3.7]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/ Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:16:19 +0100 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:16:19 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/ <![CDATA[earthli.com > earthli News 3.7]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/icons/webcore_png/app/news_100px.png https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=4384 <![CDATA[earthli.com moves to HostFactory]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=4384 Sun, 19 Dec 2021 12:16:19 +0100 , earthli has moved from an Ubuntu VM to Web Hosting at "HostFactory" . The move went very smoothly, although there are always a bunch of things to remember, especially when you haven't changed servers for a long time -- and especially when changing from a dedicated VM/server to shared web hosting. Thankfully, web hosting is a great fit for earthli because a dedicated server is quite expensive, starting at about CHF35.-/month. I took a look at cloud-based solutions and they very quickly rose into the same ballpark. [Features] Hostfactory offers: * Apache/PHP (7.3/8.x) * Unlimited MySql/Maria databases (I only need two) * 50GB of storage space (does not include database or Git repository space) * Unlimited Git repositories * 20 domain accounts (I only need one) * Unlimited traffic * Integrated SSL (LetsEncrypt) * SSH access (so I'd have scp for upload/download and shell access for stuff like mysql or moving files) * Unlimited Emails (probably don't need this, as I'm running earhtli.com mail through "Protonmail" ) * Backups * 30-day free testing (I'm all set up and haven't signed up yet...) * Excellent and very responsive support. I've gotten answers within minutes and even got an answer on a Sunday. [Requirements] What does earthli.com need? * PHP 7.2 or higher (that's the version I'd tested; I'm on 7.3 now, will probably migrate to 8.0 soon) * Modules: * EXIF * GD * Mysqli * Zip Git repos to store the earthli-webcore and earthli.com repos for easy deployment * MySQL databases (two of them) * At least 10GB of storage * .htaccess support (for securing folders) [Anything missing?] What has changed? * data.earthli.com [1] is no longer available. Use www.earthli.com/data instead * dev.earthli.com [2] is no longer available. Use www.earthli.com instead. [Drawbacks?] Are there any drawbacks to HostFactory? No, not really. Getting used to a hosted environment was a good learning experience. I no longer have full control of the server, but I also no longer have full responsibility for setting everything up in a secure manner. PHP is set up to run more efficiently, with caching, and with maximal security (using Fast-CGI now instead of Apache modules). I have control over most PHP settings I need, but had to contact support to have them set my include_path for me. They do a great job of that, including a WAF (Web Application Firewall), which has some pretty aggressive rules. For example, I tried to post an update to an article that had the word "sexual" in it and was rejected. I contacted support and was told about an IP-white-listing feature. After white-listing myself, it worked immediately. This is fine, but I worried about how well the solution scales. After a quick discussion with support, it turns out that the (non-security-relevant) rules can be individually tuned, should that be necessary. I don't think it's necessary yet, but it's good to know that it's an option if IP-white-listing proves to be insufficient for my needs. So far, so good! 👍 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] I could have added the sub-domain at HostFactory and added a Rewrite rule to redirect to the new location. I didn't do that because I'm not really interested in people continuing to use that sub-domain to access data. [1] I'm no longer maintaining a separate "dev" instance online. I used to do this because it was one of the only ways to test that a newer version was actually working as expected on the same version as is running on the server. However, now that I'm using Docker for local development, I've got the same environment locally as on the server, so there are no surprises anymore. If there were to be a surprise, then I could easily roll back the change because I use Git for all deployment. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=4251 <![CDATA[Earthli now uses the UTF8 encoding 🍾]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=4251 Sun, 02 May 2021 22:52:20 +0200 almost 8 years ago, but never found the time or inspiration to actually make the change. I did end up making some workarounds for missing characters, but it was always less work to just add another one. See the section on "proprietary markup" below. You have to be careful when changing encodings, making the sure that the tool that makes the conversion is aware of both the source and target encodings. You have to be dead-certain of the source encoding or the conversion will not succeed. You'll end up with garbled characters. The earthli database isn't large by any enterprise standards, but it does contain almost 27k pictures and almost 4k articles [2], some of them quite long. There is a lot of text, created with various browsers and tools over almost a quarter of a century. A search online for tips on converting to UTF-8 turned up a lot of useless advice for older versions or based on an inadequate understanding of encodings or the available tools. Luckily, my database dump was already in UTF-8, but it contained SQL commands to use the latin1 collation instead of utf8 or, to be more precise, utf8mb4 (which is the version of UTF8 that supports 4-byte characters, e.g. 🧐). With utf8, you can store anything you want in MySql other than emojis. It's unclear why they have two formats, but MySql has always had its idiosyncrasies. [3] [Converting "earthli's proprietary markup" ] The most fiddly bit I had to deal with was actually optional and involved converting some of the ad-hoc character combinations that I'd added to my markup language in order to use characters not supported in the latin1 encoding (e.g. I would write Slavoj Žižek as "Slavoj Zizek). I used sed to replace these character combinations. Obviously, no-one else uses these, but for the sake of posterity -- and to serve as an example for other replacements -- here they are: sed \ -e 's@(a_)@ā@g' \ -e 's@c@ç@g' \ -e 's@C@Ç@g' \ -e 's@(c-)@č@g' \ -e 's@(C-)@Č@g' \ -e 's@g@ğ@g' \ -e 's@i@ı@g' \ -e 's@I@İ@g' \ -e 's@(l-)@ł@g' \ -e 's@(L-)@Ł@g' \ -e 's@s@ş@g' \ -e 's@S@Ş@g' \ -e 's@(s-)@š@g' \ -e 's@(S-)@Š@g' \ -e 's@(u-)@ū@g' \ -e 's@z@ž@g' \ -e 's@Z@Ž@g' \ -e "s@(a\\\')@á@g" \ -e "s@(A\\\')@Á@g" \ -e "s@(C\\\')@Ć@g" \ -e "s@(n\\\')@ń@g" \ -e "s@(N\\\')@Ń@g" \ -e "s@(o\\\')@ő@g" \ -e "s@(O\\\')@Ő@g" \ earthli.sql > earthli_utf8.sql I used @ as the separator character and had to escape the backslash twice (once for sed and once for bash). Also, you have to use a different output file because sed truncates the output before it does anything. If you use the same file, then you just end up with an empty file. Neat. It's not super-efficient, but it was done in a few seconds. A bonus to doing these replacements for me is that a full-text search for "Zizek" or "Žižek" now finds all articles where I mention the Slovenian philosopher. That didn't work before because MySql was indexing "Zizek" instead. [Working with the dump file] If you need to open the dump file, be aware that the lines are very long. vim does a good job of searching and editing and jumping to locations (e.g. +normal 15G25| jumps to line 15, column 25. nano can also find text ((-cmd) + W) pretty well and quickly. Both edit the text without a problem, once you've found the location you're interested in. Desktop editors (e.g. Visual Studio Code or Sublime Text) and differs (e.g. BeyondCompare) were mostly overwhelmed by both the file size and the line lengths. Luckily, I only ended up needing to make one edit to avoid an error creating an index because the UTF-8 encoding considered "bugin" and "bügin" to be equivalent. [Commands] I made most of the following changes from the command line, but made one change using PHPMyAdmin. Here's what I ended up doing:

Dump the current database. MySQL dumps to UTF-8 by default and converts all text. mysqldump --user=earthli -p --add-drop-table earthli > earthli.sql

Verify that the dump file is in UTF8 format. If it's not, then you can use iconv to change the encoding (example from "Wikipedia" ): iconv -f iso-8859-1 -t utf-8 -o

Search/replace the character set for each table with the following command: sed -e 's@CHARSET=latin1@CHARSET=utf8mb4@g' earthli.sql > earthli_utf8.sql

1. Use PHPMyAdmin to change the default encoding for the database toutf8mb4 in the Operations pane for the database.Import the database. cat earthli_utf8.sql | mysql --user=earthli -p earthli In PHP and the configuration, I made the following changes: 1. Call mysqli_set_charset ($this->_connection, 'utf8mb4'); after opening the connection to the database 2. Change the encoding in all generated pages by including the tag < meta charset="utf-8"> 3. Change the default charset in the Apache config files php_value default_charset UTF-8 (it's possible that this is already the default by now) [Conclusion] It took a bunch of research and preparation and nerves to dump, globally modify, and re-import a database that contains the last quarter-century of my writing. In the end, though, it wasn't even that much work and it went smoothly. As always with encodings, it serves you well to understand exactly what you're doing -- it often saves a lot of steps. And, now, because I can: ✊🏼. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] The zip functions will be removed in favor the object-based API. [1] 2.6k of which are published ... I write a lot of drafts that I never end up publishing. Some of them are quite long, as well and serve as notes for myself. [1] It's probably a legacy thing or a desire to provide an option that uses one less byte if you know you're not going to want emojis? ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3979 <![CDATA[Earthli gets OpenGraph and Twitter metadata]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3979 Thu, 21 May 2020 23:11:35 +0200 element, but this leads to a rather limited embedding. Almost no-one extracts pictures from pages unless explicitly requested to do so by metadata. Until recently, earthli didn't include this metadata, leading to somewhat substandard rendering of any links pasted to social media. [Sample Metadata] As an example, the article "NY Times Spelling Bee" now includes the following OpenGraph metadata: The same article also now has Twitter metadata: Twitter refuses to use any of the OpenGraph information, so you really need to include both copies. [Implementation] Some of the properties aren't necessarily required, but it was easy enough to generate them all from earthli's general facilities. * The "AUDITABLE" object provides the creator, creation date, and the last-modification date. * The "CONTENT_OBJECT" object provides the title and the description. * The "DRAFTABLE_ENTRY" updates the creation date to the publication date for articles. * The "ATTACHMENT_HOST" sets the image to the first attachment. * The "IMAGE_METRICS" provides size information for the default image * The "MUNGER_STRIPPER" extracts and formats text for the description so that it is legal HTML. * The "ALBUM" sets the image to the main picture for the album, if available. * The "PICTURE" sets the image to the picture's URL. In addition, I added support for SOCIAL_PAGE_OPTIONS and introduced a method on the data hierarchy called set_social_options(), which allows the data objects to enrich the social options before they're formatted into the metadata area of the page header. A page must enable the social options and explicitly request to generate them, a feature I only enabled from the view_entry.php and view_folder.php pages. The results are shown below. [Apple Messages] Apple Messages uses the OpenGraph tags to make nicely formatted previews now. [image][image][image] [Facebook] I haven't actually posted anything to Facebook, but was able to use the Social-graph Testing tools to see how posts would look. [image][image][image] [Twitter] I only tested articles with Twitter because I don't anticipate ever tweeting photos or albums. The tweet is nicely formatted now, with or without an attachment. Previously, Twitter displayed links to earthli as only a simple title, with no description or image. [image][image] ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3252 <![CDATA[Earthli is now 100% responsive]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3252 Tue, 26 Apr 2016 23:19:21 +0200 Also, earthli's stylesheets and components are much simpler and easy to use than Bootstrap. Not only that, but with the redesign and the continued focus on simplicity in page design, semantic structure, etc., it turns out that earthli also does quite well for accessibility. [Home page] The "home page" demonstrates the new responsive grids and columns. [image][image][image] For this page, I've included samples taken from the Opera device emulator to show that the responsiveness actually works for mobile devices now -- no more scaling and zooming on your phone. [image][image][image] [News Index] The "News home page" demonstrates how I converted the top-level navigation area to use responsive columns and how the articles are now shown truncated to a limited length and in grids, instead of full-length and in a single 900-pixel--wide column. At a standard resolution, the tile still stretches across the whole page, but beyond that size, it switches to multiple columns, to improve readability and use space more efficiently. [image][image][image] [Webcore Index] The "WebCore index" is a custom section of earthli, with a column to each side, and a responsive grid in the middle section. With just a handful of simple directives, the browser makes the best use of the available space. [image][image][image] [Theme Settings] The "theme settings page" also combines a lot of different elements: a responsive grid of content-sized tiles for the theme thumbnails, a form with top-aligned labels and responsive width, another form -- the test form below the fold, not shown in the screenshots -- which shows how the left-hand labels are moved to the top at smaller screen widths. This page also uses a smaller column on the left with a content area on the right. These columns share the space in a given ratio at wider resolutions, but are stacked at smaller screen widths. [image][image][image][image] [Read Article] When you "read an article" , it now makes much better use of the space. In a standard size, the page looks about the same it did without responsive design (where the page width was fixed at 900 pixels). However, at smaller widths, the page collapses as expected. The neat trick on this page is that at larger widths, the layout starts splitting content into columns so that you never have to read really long lines. The drawback to this approach is that, for longer articles, you have to manually scroll back up to the top of the next column. However, I think that's more acceptable than displaying text in 2000-pixel--wide paragraphs. [image][image][image][image] [Edit Article Form] As mentioned above, the forms are also responsive: at smaller viewport widths, the labels move from left-aligned to top-aligned automatically. Any form can now be used on a small mobile device, limited only by the limitations of the device rather than any forced layout in the form itself. In this way, the form makes the best use of horizontal space, keeping the form as vertically short as possible if there is screen space. If there is not, the form uses more vertical space, but avoids horizontal scrolling. I think this is a good trade-off. Additionally, If you work on larger texts, there is a new full-screen editing mode, that maximizes the preview area and editing areas to share the screen equally. [image][image][image] [Albums Index] And, finally, I've included a screenshot of the "Albums home page" , to show off how it also makes maximal use of the screen width, creating new columns as space allows rather than being hard-coded to three columns, as it used to be. [image] [Conclusion] I'm pretty happy to have gotten to this point with earthli, which turns ... 17 years old this year. Even after all that time, I've managed to keep it looking relatively modern and based on modern technologies. * Everything is now HTTPS. * LESS-based single stylesheet with a consistent UX and VSG for the entire site * Simple, responsive design for all pages * Very good scores on mobile-friendliness from Google * Very good scores on accessibility from other sources ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3236 <![CDATA[Earthli is now 100% HTTPS]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3236 Mon, 28 Mar 2016 17:13:08 +0200 , all of earthli.com is now accessible only via HTTPS. What does that mean? * For your day-to-day use of the site, nothing. Any data you send to or from earthli is now hidden from prying eyes. * All traffic is end-to-end encrypted between your browser and the earthli server. This includes your password, when you log in. * Although almost everything on earthli is still open to the public, encryption now truly protects areas that have restricted access. * It means your browser will show a little green or grey lock icon in the address bar next to the URL. [image] * If you click the lock, you can show the details for the certificate (shown below). [image] ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3033 <![CDATA[WebCore 3.5: new form styles]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=3033 Fri, 12 Feb 2016 23:39:43 +0100 almost a year ago. The design analysis is still pretty relevant, as are the conclusions about flexbox." We released "version 3.4" of the "earthli WebCore" over a year ago, in June 2013. That release introduced a "new overall style" that was both looked more modern and also conformed to recent design/development standards. See that article for more information about what would turn out to have been stage one of two stages of a style update. If you look at the "release notes for 3.5" , you'll note that almost all of the changes occurred in the rendering part of the framework. In fairness, the issues don't even begin to cover it. What the release actually contains is the following: * Removed all inline CSS styles from everywhere in the web site. Replaced everything with CSS classes, where needed. * Removed all explicit 100% widths from containers. CSS determines whether a container has its natural width or the default 100% width or another, smaller width * Grids, forms, calendars and column layouts no longer use tables for layout. The default CSS still uses table, table-row and table-cell display types but that is temporary. The only tables left are containers that really should be represented as tables. The visual style is more consistent throughout, as you can see in the examples below. Click the images to see specific notes. [Home & Index Pages] [image][image]The earthli home page and the product index pages have been cleaned up, reduced and standardized. On these pages, icons have been reduced or removed -- especially where they used to appear at the left, where they tended to disturb the vertical text line. On the product index page, all toolbars were combined into one single area. [User Details] [image][image]Pages common to all products have been spruced up. It's especially noticeable on forms with a lot of controls. These are now very consistently aligned where they'd fallen into disrepair before. [Folder Permissions] [image][image]Another common page is the permissions manager for folders. This page doesn't look radically different at first, but if you compare the screenshots more closely, you'll see a lot of improvements in consistency that add up to a big improvement. The toolbar was consolidated and line-specific commands were standardized. [Calendar Chooser] [image]And, finally, the old, old -- old -- calendar-chooser-in-a-separate-window has been replaced by an in-place calendar control. It's not rocket science, but as a regular user of this control, I'm glad to have gotten rid of the old, crufty version. [Edit Article] [image][image]I put the most customization into the relatively simple article-editor, simply because I spend the majority of time there, editing blog posts. The new version makes much better use of horizontal space -- without using so much that line-length detracts from legibility. As with the other forms, the edit-article form automatically picks up much better control and text alignment. [Inline Preview] [image][image]The article editor also includes a side-by-side and non-refreshing preview. Another Godsend for anyone who spends a lot of time editing longer posts. [Edit Job] [image][image]In the earthli Projects, the job editor is one that shows a lot of improvement after the upgrade. The design is much quieter, with less jagged edges on the right to distract the eye. The code that builds this form is essentially unchanged [1] -- the improvement came "for free" when I updated the stylesheets. [Edit Recipe] [image]Even the relatively straightforward form in the recipe editor looks nicer and automatically makes better use of horizontal space. There is no inline preview yet, but the old server-round-trip preview is still serviceable for these shorter texts. [Edit Album] [image]And, finally, the album editor shows how well the stylesheet maintains both vertical and baseline alignment for many different types of controls. Controls are aligned to an imaginary plumb line as are their labels (and descriptions for radio buttons and checkboxes). In the case of text controls, alignment to the text in the control was preferred to aligning to the border of the control itself. [Where to next?] The next natural step is to use flexbox display in many other places, but browsers are not quite ready for that yet. This is probably the last difficult CSS rewrite that I will have to make, in which layout must still be made using floating elements because too many browsers still have shaky flexbox support. In two or three years, though, I'll be able to just switch out the display styles and much more cleanly and easily define the form layout using flexbox than the occasionally shaky and still unevenly support margin/padding/float/relative-positioning solution that earthli currently uses. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [1] I write "essentially" because I did make some code changes, but not to the structure. I changed code to remove inline and hard-coded styles so the form could "breathe" and assume the shape outlined by the stylesheet rather than forced in the code. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1032 <![CDATA[New Quake battles!]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1032 Sun, 05 Dec 2004 16:56:32 +0100 and "Urban Terror" . Unfortunately there are no dates in the logs, so there was no way to separate individual evenings. Still, it shows just how pathetic dur is when there's strategy involved (check out that UT rank!). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1029 <![CDATA[New earthli home page]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1029 Sun, 05 Dec 2004 13:16:30 +0100 has gotten a professional makeover and should be more usable now. The poll has also finally been updated, but it asks a rather obvious question. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1021 <![CDATA[earthli upgraded]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1021 Sun, 31 Oct 2004 23:50:18 +0100 ). It'll be in a beta stage for a bit, but most of the wrinkles should be smoothed out soon enough. There are more upgrades and changes planned for the near future -- that will change the look of the site a bit, but first, we've got to nail down the foundation. If you see any warnings or errors, please send them to me and I'll take care of them right away. Thanks, Team earthli ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1006 <![CDATA[Uploading pictures in earthli Albums]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=1006 Sun, 12 Sep 2004 23:37:52 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=933 <![CDATA[earthli Software gets a facelift]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=933 Thu, 15 Apr 2004 00:10:24 +0200 page looked too nice and was putting "earthli Software" to shame. No longer! The summaries are small "News" articles, which means that software is now dynamic and searchable. There are only four entries so far, but more are coming. So far, the "earthli Browser Detector" has gotten an update. The code will be updated with the next WebCore release, but the algorithm description is much clearer now. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=860 <![CDATA[earthli moves again]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=860 Sat, 20 Sep 2003 16:56:36 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=835 <![CDATA[New logo and upgrade]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=835 Mon, 18 Aug 2003 22:03:50 +0200 , depicting him sitting in his garden. I think the new design lends itself much better to a T-shirt than the last, with just Oz by himself adorning the pocket and perhaps the whole thing across the back. It's just an idea for now, though... In addition, earthli has been upgraded to the latest version of the earthli WebCore, including software upgrades for Albums, News, Projects and Recipes. The long-awaited subscription integration is almost complete and will be activated as soon as the testing phase is complete. This latest upgrade involved a significant database upgrade. Subsequent code releases should come more quickly as the next few versions worth of features involve code-only changes. Enjoy. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=826 <![CDATA[New themes & home page]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=826 Sun, 15 Jun 2003 21:17:19 +0200 really has new functionality. The entire site benefits from upgraded styles and theme handling. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=795 <![CDATA[earthli finally has the home it deserves!]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=795 Wed, 19 Mar 2003 17:02:55 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=787 <![CDATA[earthli Browser Detector released!]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=787 Sun, 23 Feb 2003 12:48:03 +0100 for more details. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=782 <![CDATA[Klosters and Langfurren albums updated]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=782 Wed, 19 Feb 2003 09:55:44 +0100 album showing off their newly furnished apartment. There is also a new album showing their first overnight ski-weekend in "Klosters, Switzerland" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=745 <![CDATA[Quake III Feats]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=745 Mon, 09 Dec 2002 00:55:38 +0100 again recently and took a few "screenshots" (Quake III Arena Screenshots) of his handiwork. It's just bot play, but it's on the Hardcore level and has some neat stats. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=744 <![CDATA[Oz's First Impressions]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=744 Mon, 09 Dec 2002 00:52:43 +0100 has some new pictures up, documenting his experiences so far in Switzerland. He's got a journal entry, "Kicked out of the States (and poor)" and he's got some pictures from "December 6th, 2002" (Sami Claus day) and some pictures from "December 1st, 2002" (one of the few sunny days in the last 8 weeks). Check 'em out to see how the Oz-man's doing. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=728 <![CDATA[earthli Moves to Switzerland]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=728 Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:24:02 +0100 , as it could be a configuration problem as a result of the move. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=724 <![CDATA[New earthli logo]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=724 Wed, 13 Nov 2002 21:22:58 +0100 for more information on PNG images. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=678 <![CDATA[Webcam is Back]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=678 Sat, 28 Sep 2002 20:15:11 +0200 has been re-enabled. As usual, service will be intermittent, but you should be able to see the living room change...and maybe we'll move the camera as we move to different rooms. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=647 <![CDATA[Last Day at Logicat]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=647 Fri, 30 Aug 2002 12:09:31 +0200 , my new employer). I've updated my "resume" ("PDF" ) with my last work at Logicat. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=615 <![CDATA[earthli is on WebCore 2.0]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=615 Tue, 13 Aug 2002 16:59:06 +0200 is now at "version 2.0.0" and the entire web site has been converted to take advantage of it. The functionality hasn't changed, but the site is much more flexible for future projects. If you want to start working with the WebCore, there is some "documentation" available. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=599 <![CDATA[Hochzeit Invitations Shipped!]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=599 Thu, 01 Aug 2002 10:57:15 +0200 site has been improved and a new theme "Hochzeit" has been added (and selected as the default for that part of the site). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=582 <![CDATA[Bass Harbor album is ready]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=582 Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:29:07 +0200 album. Gary hasn't contributed his pictures yet, but I wanted get an album for a vacation finished in less than a week from the end of the trip itself. I'm sure he'll have pictures to contribute later, but these are my pictures (and journals) for now. As always, there's a "calendar" for easy browsing and a "Print Preview" if you just want to look at the whole album (just click the print button in the bottom right on the screen that comes up). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=581 <![CDATA[Wedding Site is ready]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=581 Thu, 25 Jul 2002 23:19:06 +0200 , with real-time updates of registered guests (whether yea or nay). You can search that list, or use the handy "search tool" to find people and R.S.V.P. yourself. The hand-crafted (digitally) "invitations" are also online for you to look at. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=531 <![CDATA[Switzerland 2002 album is online]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=531 Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:24:32 +0200 almost a month ago. If you just want a massive overview, then check out the new print feature here ["print" ] (just click print at the bottom right, after selecting options). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=535 <![CDATA[Southwest 2002 is finished]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=535 Sat, 29 Jun 2002 09:22:28 +0200 and "157 pictures" , the "Southwest 2002" is finally finished. It includes over 70 pictures from Gary's collection as well. The "Print Preview" alone is over 40 pages and is the best way to check it out offline. However, I highly recommend to browse through the "Calendar" if you're looking for something specific. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=530 <![CDATA[Photo Albums are printable]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=530 Mon, 24 Jun 2002 22:21:47 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=515 <![CDATA[Fritz Photo Album Started]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=515 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:27:13 +0200 , strangely enough. So far, there are just basic outside pictures, but after a good washing and cleaning, more interior pictures should be available. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=514 <![CDATA[Southwest 2002 Journal Added]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=514 Tue, 11 Jun 2002 12:24:56 +0200 from the Van Evera family trip to Arizona (and Las Vegas) is available, but hasn't been proofread or edited yet (just entered by "mvonballmo" ). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=499 <![CDATA[earthli Projects in early Alpha]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=499 Wed, 05 Jun 2002 11:00:11 +0200 , "News" , "Recipes" and "Webcore" logs have been imported. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=497 <![CDATA[Albums are Searchable]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=497 Fri, 17 May 2002 11:55:55 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=469 <![CDATA[Oz's Vacation]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=469 Tue, 30 Apr 2002 11:36:16 +0200 has just come back from a visit in upstate New York with a new sitter, because his usual sitters were abandoning him for a vacation with his parents. While there, his sitter kept a "journal" and "took some pictures" There was also a photo shoot back in "March" , as well. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=453 <![CDATA[Research Papers Released]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=453 Wed, 03 Apr 2002 11:35:04 +0200 are now available for browsing. All existing documentation has been reformatted, cleaned up to valid HTML 4.01 Strict standards and collected under a shared style sheet (not earthli themes, though). The listing has also been re-organized to provide a full chronological listing and a project listing. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=253 <![CDATA[Christmas is here]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=253 Mon, 25 Mar 2002 15:27:42 +0100 's new "pictures" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=396 <![CDATA[New Theme Set - Colors]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=396 Wed, 06 Mar 2002 23:38:03 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=394 <![CDATA[Forums become earthli News]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=394 Thu, 28 Feb 2002 16:59:36 +0100 are officially closed. Their content has been moved into "earthli News" , which is built with the same technology as the "Albums" and the "Recipes" , yielding a single shared earthli user for all sites. There is also better searching, print previews, a draft/published mode for contributors and a better date-oriented layout for easier browsing. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=326 <![CDATA[earthli Recipes opens!]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=326 Wed, 23 Jan 2002 18:07:28 +0100 lets users publish, print, sort and comment on recipes. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=281 <![CDATA[Archives Added to Oz's Autobiography]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=281 Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:02:58 +0100 has added over 30 new (old) pictures to his "Autobiography" album. There are a lot of pictures from his early years. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=280 <![CDATA[Switzerland 2001 Album Opens]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=280 Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:01:42 +0100 's "Switzerland 2001" album. There are albums for "Pilatus" , "San Bernardino" , Ermes' "Family Trip" , "Werner & Ekhlas" ' House and the "1st of August" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=248 <![CDATA[Forums are searchable]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=248 Wed, 12 Dec 2001 12:19:44 +0100 are now searchable. You can search all forums or just within a particular forum. There's even fancy keyword highlighting (which carries over to the post as well). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=233 <![CDATA[Christmas comes early]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=233 Thu, 06 Dec 2001 00:06:42 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=231 <![CDATA[Theme Screenshots]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=231 Tue, 04 Dec 2001 23:37:05 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=220 <![CDATA[Photo Albums 2.1 re-opens]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=220 Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:53:49 +0100 have re-opened with many new features, including nested albums, comments, enhanced security, an explorer, an updated calendar and better navigation for browsing sets of pictures. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=210 <![CDATA[dur's Quake site converted]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=210 Tue, 20 Nov 2001 11:53:25 +0100 site to use the earthli settings. Much re-organization, but no new content. The original quake style sheet is now available as an earthli color scheme - 'Quake'. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=217 <![CDATA[Happy Thanksgiving]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=217 Thu, 15 Nov 2001 16:59:06 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=203 <![CDATA[earthli Settings fixed (again)]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=203 Fri, 02 Nov 2001 12:34:18 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=202 <![CDATA[Jass Manual converted]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=202 Wed, 31 Oct 2001 23:40:39 +0100 has been converted to use the new settings. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=195 <![CDATA[Happy Halloween]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=195 Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:14:53 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=194 <![CDATA[Photo Albums have a new home]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=194 Sat, 27 Oct 2001 11:13:00 +0200 are working and all existing photos are browsable. Soon you'll be able to add pictures again. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=184 <![CDATA[earthli Settings stored indefinitely]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=184 Thu, 18 Oct 2001 13:43:56 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=173 <![CDATA[Cookie location changed]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=173 Mon, 08 Oct 2001 18:40:57 +0200 pages now. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=168 <![CDATA[Announcements automated]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=168 Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:39:23 +0200 . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=132 <![CDATA[Subscriptions for forums]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=132 Thu, 04 Oct 2001 22:28:39 +0200 . Get the latest posts emailed to you. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=167 <![CDATA[First stable forum version]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=167 Tue, 02 Oct 2001 10:55:33 +0200 overhaul is completed. "New posts" piling up daily. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=166 <![CDATA[New Oz pictures]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=166 Sun, 30 Sep 2001 10:54:56 +0200 pictures. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=165 <![CDATA[New Forums opened]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=165 Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:54:34 +0200 . Many new posts added. Existing posts separated into "Current Events" , "Humor" and "Technology" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=164 <![CDATA[Forums Updated (Again)]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=164 Tue, 18 Sep 2001 10:54:05 +0200 code updated. Users can now "create accounts" . More "invective" than you can handle. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=163 <![CDATA[Tuesday's commute.]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=163 Wed, 12 Sep 2001 10:53:34 +0200 . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=162 <![CDATA[New page settings]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=162 Fri, 07 Sep 2001 10:53:12 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=161 <![CDATA[Urban Terror battle]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=161 Fri, 29 Jun 2001 10:52:51 +0200 in Urban Terror. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=160 <![CDATA[Styles available on home page]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=160 Mon, 18 Jun 2001 10:52:28 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=159 <![CDATA[Added CH 97 Pictures]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=159 Sat, 02 Jun 2001 10:52:03 +0200 album. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=158 <![CDATA[New Quake Battle]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=158 Thu, 24 May 2001 10:51:33 +0200 to the Quake "battles" site. New battle: dur, joker, kavorka, malloc. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=157 <![CDATA[Polling system complete.]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=157 Thu, 24 May 2001 10:51:08 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=156 <![CDATA[Polls available]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=156 Wed, 16 May 2001 10:47:09 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=155 <![CDATA[Christmas 2000 Photo Album]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=155 Mon, 14 May 2001 10:46:47 +0200 pictures to the "photo album" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=154 <![CDATA[Grizz vs. dur]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=154 Thu, 10 May 2001 10:46:10 +0200 quake battle. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=153 <![CDATA[Mark III Complete]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=153 Wed, 09 May 2001 10:44:16 +0200 ready for delivery. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=152 <![CDATA[Mark II Delivered]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=152 Tue, 08 May 2001 10:43:50 +0200 "Mark II" arrives. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=151 <![CDATA[Quake Battle Added]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=151 Thu, 03 May 2001 10:43:07 +0200 ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=150 <![CDATA[New Server]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=150 Fri, 27 Apr 2001 10:42:45 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=149 <![CDATA[New Logos]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=149 Thu, 26 Apr 2001 10:42:30 +0200 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=148 <![CDATA[Quake III Battles added]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=148 Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:42:09 +0200 added to "quake" site. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=147 <![CDATA[Test Engine Build History]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=147 Mon, 23 Apr 2001 10:41:39 +0200 transferred to earthli. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=146 <![CDATA[Mark I shipped]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=146 Wed, 11 Apr 2001 10:41:07 +0200 offers the "Mark I" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=145 <![CDATA[New Look]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=145 Fri, 23 Mar 2001 10:40:38 +0100 https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=144 <![CDATA[earthli Forums created]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=144 Mon, 05 Mar 2001 10:40:16 +0100 has been spun from the "project manager" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=143 <![CDATA[Project Manager begun]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=143 Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:39:41 +0100 is underway. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=142 <![CDATA[Oz back on Webcam]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=142 Mon, 05 Feb 2001 10:39:19 +0100 is back on the "Webcam" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=141 <![CDATA[Added Whistler 2001 pictures.]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=141 Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:38:36 +0100 album. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=140 <![CDATA[Updated Oz's home page]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=140 Mon, 29 Jan 2001 10:38:10 +0100 (New pictures). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=139 <![CDATA[Re-organized Logicat section]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=139 Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:37:44 +0100 section. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=138 <![CDATA[New Test Engine Manuals]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=138 Wed, 17 Jan 2001 10:36:58 +0100 . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=137 <![CDATA[New Jass Strategy]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=137 Mon, 15 Jan 2001 10:35:43 +0100 (playing backwards). ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=136 <![CDATA[Updated Jass Manual]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=136 Tue, 09 Jan 2001 10:34:50 +0100 with a "multi-page, browsable version" . ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=135 <![CDATA[Themes added to Photo Albums]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=135 Mon, 08 Jan 2001 10:32:07 +0100 admin area. ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=134 <![CDATA[Photo Albums upgraded]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=134 Fri, 05 Jan 2001 10:30:23 +0100 site. ("Work Log" ) ]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=133 <![CDATA[Webcam Opens]]> https://www.earthli.com/news/view_article.php?id=133 Thu, 04 Jan 2001 10:29:36 +0100 site. ]]>