Thursday, February 19. 2004

Thank you to those who have taken a moment to e-mail me and let me know about odds and ends which weren't working on the site. The Fun PHP image creation things should be up and running again. Unfortunately until further notice the photo gallery is offline.

The problem with the photo gallery is simple -- since I was forced to move servers anyway I decided to be forward-thinking and am currently running the latest CVS HEAD of PHP 5 on coggeshall.org. Yes, that's right -- PHP 5. I'm doing this for a number of reasons:

1) I think PHP 5 has a ton of awsome stuff in it I wanted to use
2) I'm writing a PHP 5 book, so I wanted to see for myself how difficult of a time people would have running PHP 4 code on PHP 5
3) Someone has to actually try it eventually :)

So far, I have experienced very little in the way of problems with software packages -- save for Gallery. One of the new features I installed during the move is a Wiki where you can find a Complete list of all of the problems I've encountered running my PHP 4 based Coggeshall.org on PHP 5. Feel free to contribute your own problems as well to the Wiki page!

So, in short, pardon my dust -- I'm still getting myself settled in!