We haven’t had an update in quite a while. We’re still here. I’ve got a few more plans for enhancements to the website. Expect them soon. I want to make picture navigation easier and I hope to allow everyone to rate our pictures much like www.hotornot.com. Hopefully it won’t be nearly as tacky. Anyway the big news for today is that you can check out our bandwidth usage within the last day. Open Source software rocks.
New site features!
Two new features are available on the website. As you can see on the left of the homepage, there’s a new list that shows links to the last five pictures added to the website. This should help our board of directors keep up with what’s new on the site. Also, mauter.com is proud to announce a new type of feature to the site. Users may upload pictures to our photo album! The editors want a first look at anything uploaded and pictures can only be 1MB or smaller in filesize, but your pictures will show up in a new section called uploads. Let’s see what you all do with this. Alex, pictures of certain body parts will never be allowed. Don’t ask. 🙂
Gatlinburg Vacation
We took a vacation to Gatlinburg during the weekend before Veteran’s Day. We had lots of fun hiking, climbing and relaxing. Brian got some desperately needed tips about how to play pool and Janie made lots of waffles. Pictures from our vacation are available in the photo album.
Broken Search Engine
The search engine I was evaluating worked for a while. I noticed that when I tried to reindex the website, the index was broken. Although it was probably a pilot error, I removed it from the website. I’m working on a new project at home to build my own search engine with the help of some sweet projects at Apache Jakarta: Lucene, HttpClient and CyberNeko HTML Parser. For all of you programmers who balk at Java, I have one thing to say to you: you’re missing out.
Board of Directors
Apparently, mauter.com has a board of directors. They like the site overall, but some significant changes will be happening around here soon. The programmers had to put an emergency fix in ASAP to handle the replay attack with the comments posting function. It’s now fixed. We hope to add a feature story section where one of us will blab on about something for more than just a news blurb. We’re currently thinking about topics like “Bedroom 3 Networking Closet Implementation Plan”, “Just Install Your Own Blinds” and “Meet the Board of Directors”. None of them are set in stone, but it’s just things we’re considering. That’s all for now.