A modern replacement to the gallery, Piwigo, is live. AI assisted in fully integrating the look and authentication from day one. This had been on my "to do" list for years, but I did not have the time to implement. Go live took less than a day. Within a week, the minor bugs were killed…
As my comfort with AI grows, so do the projects I assign it. In the last week, AI has been adding features far faster than I ever had time to do in the past. The limitation is no longer my coding free time... it is now the ideas I have for enhancing the site. Every feature added required investigation and follow-ups before functioning as intended. I believe skill and know-how are required to validate that AI has not made a mistake. As AI often tells me: "You are right for saying that."…
The News System had a significant rewrite on the backend. It looks identical. The technical change was a shift from using PHP to craft an individualized page to having it send a news dump. By reducing the complexity of the PHP code, the page is created faster. Javascript replaces the PHP for drawing the News section. The weather section starts loading sooner. Total page load is about 0.2 seconds faster. May not seem like much: it's 30% faster…
News settings were not sticking very long. Cookies set by JavaScript only stay for a week on Safari. The news feed query is done server side and embedded into the home page. These settings need to be cookies…
The News system has been updated. Faster and more consistent display…
The weather code was expanded to include current conditions, alerts, hourly definition in daily graphs, real feel, precipitation, wind, snow, clouds, humidity, visibility, pressure, and solar graphs. Changed the icons to a weather icon font. Added loading indicator when changing locations. Added buttons to jump through the forecast one day at a time. Significant performance enhancements: Graph loading time was reduced by over 10 times. Graphing library was customized to include only necessary functions (85% reduction)…
The weather system has easy access to view the forecast throughout the day. Check out the forecast tabs. In addition, there have been minor tweaks and adjustments throughout the weather system. Hourly forecasts now display 24 hours into the future (it was 12 hours). ZoneCast now displays daytime and nighttime forecasts for the next seven days. It was formerly daytime only for 7 days or daytime and nighttime for 3 days. Fixes for formatting issues and optimizing display items to get the most out of the weather system…
The News system has received a speed boost. Instead of loading the news every time you visit the page, it loads it on the server in the background. This trims off a few seconds to load the web page. News updates occur every five minutes... the news will never be old…
Fixed the Captcha on the Gallery for public comments (it wasn't working before). Links Settings page no longer needs to reload when a setting is changed. Changes apply instantly without reloading the page. There is a new option to use AJAX for the details popups as well. The Forum, Gallery, and Links now generate Search Engine Friendly (SEF) URLs. Weather code has been optimized and loads faster. The weather module also remembers which day you were viewing when it auto updates. News system auto updates are faster and most of the processing happens with no noticeable impact…
The Site Authentication has been optimized and rewritten as a module. This simplifies management of the site - with a minor speedup. The Weather System has always allowed searching by city, but now it handles "city, state" as well. The "more quotes" page now has 15 random quotes, and a quote search function. The News System has improved the time display in the list, and has an auto reload feature. By default, it will auto update the news articles every ten minutes. This setting is configurable. The Home Page and News System both have improved image preloading on them…
