June 24, 2009
Upgraded website software for www.ildica.com
I've upgraded the software that publishes this website (and the others: www.huntsbury-preschool.org.nz, etc) to Movable Type 4.261. Mostly straight-forward, although I notice the odd apostrophe and quote mark that's been butchered during the upgrade...
Posted by conor at 3:48 PM
January 9, 2009
If you can read this...
Our website is now hosted at Dreamhost, which among other things is certified carbon neutral.
Posted by conor at 11:51 AM
October 29, 2008
Gallery updated to 2.3
I've just upgraded our photo gallery to the latest version (Gallery 2.3). It fixes some issues I had with the gallery, including the map, and it also provides support for the cool PicLens slideshow plugin (which you can access from the "View Slideshow" link in each album) for web-browsers. Here's a screensnap:
Posted by conor at 7:56 PM
August 23, 2007
Google Earth has gone skywards
The latest version of Google Earth now includes incredible visualisation of pretty much the whole universe! Download the latest version of Google Earth and you'll notice a little planet button on the toolbar. Click this and, voila, you'll be shown the sky as it is above the location you were previously viewing in Google Earth. Start flying around and zooming in, and you'll be able to find a wealth of galactic imagery, including a lot of Hubble imagery. You can also create the usual Google Earth placemarks! For example, here's one which will take you to the Crab Nebula:
Ummm, I can almost feel a telescope coming on. While Google Earth/Sky seems to be great for exploring and viewing some stunning Hubble imagery for example, I've also come across Stellarium, an open-source project which looks like it might be much better at being able to show you what is visible in the sky at any moment in time. I might load it on the laptop and use it to pick good directions for some more star trail photos...
Posted by conor at 10:48 AM
August 22, 2007
Google Maps now does embeddable maps
To illustrate, here's a Google map showing the contents of the Google Earth file from my last post of our day tramp up Double Hill.View Larger Map
Posted by conor at 9:32 AM
November 23, 2006
Brilliant - online Google Maps now supports KMZ files
For example, you can now view the GPS tramping track and photos from my Kelly Range track a few weeks back online on Google Maps using this link: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&q=http://www.ildica.com/misc/KellyRangeTramp22-10-2006.kmz&t=hPosted by conor at 9:09 AM
May 26, 2006
GLoSS: Gallery2 Local Screen Saver & Desktop Changer available
My current pet techie project is a Windows screensaver and desktop background image changer for Gallery2 (the software I use for serving our photos). You can find more info and download the latest version here.Posted by conor at 2:34 PM
December 2, 2005
Our Gallery integrated with Google Maps
Our gallery now uses Google Maps to show you where particular photos or albums were shot. Very funky, I thought!Posted by ildica at 2:06 PM
September 27, 2005
Website now powered by...
...MovableType 3.2 and Gallery 2.Posted by conor at 10:08 AM
August 10, 2005
Quotes
I like quotes.
So have a peek at my selection of favourites here.
Posted by conor at 2:41 PM
April 6, 2005
Site content
The site content on the main part of www.ildica.com is now being served by a system called Movable Type, which gives me more flexibility in what we show and where on the page. To be honest, much of it is an opportunity for me to play with different software tools. ;-)
For those who are interested, here's the setup underlying www.ildica.com
- OS: FreeBSD apparently
- Webserver: Apache
- PHP: 4.4
- Blog: Movable Type
- Blog client: WBloggar
- Database: MySQL
- Gallery: Gallery 2
Posted by conor at 3:51 PM
March 29, 2005
New Gallery software
I'm testing a new version of the photo gallery software I use here. It looks a bit more professional, and also allows me to do things like have random photos from our gallery appear on the main www.ildica.com page, and show which is the latest album to be added. All very flash, and completely free from the kind people at http://gallery.menalto.com
Posted by conor at 1:49 PM
August 21, 2003
trying this out
First time I've found time to write to this! Life has changed somewhat, even hosted my first 'coffee morning' this morning. (just an excuse to swap stories really).
Posted by ildica at 7:28 PM
July 25, 2003
First post!
Today is D-Day. As in Drop-Day. Grub is due today, although is keeping remarkably quiet. Even after a large curry last night ;-)
Watch this space...
Posted by conor at 2:40 PM