Category: estrip

01/01/07 07:13 - 43ºF - ID#37501

Thursday Night Downtime

On Thursday night the the site will be down for a while after 6PM in order to perform some routine maintenance on the server. We are going to be relocating the server from one floor to another at Artvoice, then I will be doing some backups and upgrades followed by bringing the site back up. During that time, the site will be unavailable.

Permalink: Thursday_Night_Downtime.html
Words: 63
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

12/28/06 04:48 - 40ºF - ID#30322

New Years and Journal Topics

Hey there (e:peep),

If you haven't written in your elmwoodstrip.org journal in a long time, the New Year is a great time begin again. There are some brand new features such as being able to include youtube and google videos on your journal, as well as, a handy dandy multiple media file upload utility. And don't forget you can always visit and use elmwoodstrip.org from your mobile phone as well. Just visit elmwoodstrip.org.wap (on an old mobile phones) or elmwoodstrip.org/xhtml (on a newer HTML capable) mobile phone.

For those of you that are serial writers, and we know there are a lot of you out there, do you ever login into elmwoodstrip.org and want to write, want to connect, but just don't know what to write about.

Well we are starting to create a list of topics to help you through those awkward moments of writers block. And we need your help.

With three low monthly installments of $49.99. ... just kidding...

We are hoping that each of you can take a little bit of your time and come up with some ideas to add to the topic collection.

Here are some examples:

Back on my first day of school...

How I like to stay warm in the winter...

This my favorite picture of myself because...

When I used to be...

If money wasn't an issue...

This a perfect day because...

The greatest accomplishment of my life is...

I knew this person, that was so underappreciated...

I am so pissed off at the world today because...

Add your ideas as comments on this journal or reply to the email that was sent to you about this.

NEW YEARS EVE PARTY
On another note - we are having a new years eve party at the mansion. Don't forget to mark your calendars. Everyone is invited. BYOB.

Permalink: New_Years_and_Journal_Topics.html
Words: 324
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

12/22/06 05:40 - 47ºF - ID#30320

New Google Video Feature

In honour of (e:kara)'s comment on my journal about the wii, I have added a new gvideo tag to your tag options in the journal entry box.

It works just like the youtube tag with the id of the video in the tag and makes a google video player. Here is the funny playstation 3 vs nintendo wii video. e.g.

[gvideo]2964751562925463883[/gvideo]

(~~SORRY GOOGLE VIDEO IS NO LONGER AVAILABLE. LINK WAS 2964751562925463883~~)

Permalink: New_Google_Video_Feature.html
Words: 63
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

12/18/06 02:46 - 44ºF - ID#30319

Many Site Updates

Multiple file tracked uploads
I have created a multi file upload system for users with flash 8. If you have flash 8 you should see the new "NEW: select multiple media files to upload button" at the bottom of your journal instead of the old button.

If not your should see the old system. The new system lets you upload multiple files at once, and also reports the progress of the uploads without leaving page. It then puts the ocde in the journal and provides thumbnails.

Test it and see how it goes. Please upgrade to flash player 8 or greater

if you do not have it.

Editor fix
I fixed the bug where the style buttons were not working on text in the first sentence of your journal entry. The tags used to get stuck at the beginning of the journal entry ifthe text you selected before clicking one of the style button was at the beginning of your journal.

Editor New Feature
Youtube support. Added a youtube button in the stylebox. You can copy the id from any youtube video into your journal, select it and hit the youtube button to have it display youtube videos on your journal. The id of a youtube video can be found in the url of the video when you visit it. It is the last bit of data after v= in the URL.

[youtube]12PsUW-8ge4[/youtube]

Logged in userpic bug fix
I fixed the bug where userpics were not going away when users were logging out. Thing is i had spelled remove as "renove" sometimes spelling means a lot.

Upgraded to surebert 2.10
This means I had to go through tons of javascript and update it. In the future it means upgrades will be easier and new features and just waiting to happen.

Permalink: Many_Site_Updates.html
Words: 311
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

12/02/06 03:19 - ID#30318

Updates

Gather
Estrip's file sharing service known as Gather now works with safari. I updated the look and functionality of it. You now have post-its that represent all the files you have uploaded which have not expired.

I will probably be adding file upload progress this weekend.

Estrip - You can now upload up to 7000k (~7MB) when uploading flv or mp4 formatted video files. I posted instructions for posting actual video files or a video player for videos hosted on youtube on the computer journal (e:computer,43)

Permalink: Updates.html
Words: 91
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: bug fix

10/06/06 04:36 - 57ºF - ID#30317

Comment Problem Solved

Well one good thing came out of this (e:ladycroft) and (e:matthew) drama. I figured one of the stupid comment bugs that was forcing the comments to not show up in the right order sometimes! Finally. Okay truth is I never looked into it until now but (e:matthew) just called to say that his latest comment was not showing up on (e:ladycrofts,335) and I looked into it.

I was that the comments were not explicitly set to order in a certain order and SQL knows no order other than the one specified. Usually it was fine but ocassionally it would provide them in some random order. Silly oversight but it is fixed now so rest assured your comments will show up in the proper order.

Permalink: Comment_Problem_Solved.html
Words: 128
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

10/05/06 11:31 - 46ºF - ID#30316

Updates

It's been a while. I would like to rewrite everything and add a million features at least to take advantage of the new surebert but I have been so busy.

I fixed the bug that arrised from surebert 1.45 that caused the (show more) to not work today. I also fixed the bug that prevented users from uploading a usersound on IE.

Permalink: Updates.html
Words: 61
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: health

09/15/06 02:36 - 65ºF - ID#30314

Need to Quit Smoking?

Are You Ready to Kick the Habit - At No Cost?

Roswell Park Cancer Institute is seeking volunteers for a quit smoking study. Eligible smokers will receive quit smoking medication and group counseling at no cost, as part of a research project. For more information, call the "EZ-Quit Study" at 1-877-ASK-RPCI (1-877-275-7724).

Permalink: Need_to_Quit_Smoking_.html
Words: 55
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: estrip

09/09/06 08:52 - 60ºF - ID#30313

The server is back up

Sorry the server had a little spat of depression. He feel better now.

Permalink: The_server_is_back_up.html
Words: 13
Location: Buffalo, NY

Category: party

08/24/06 09:53 - 61ºF - ID#30312

Party On Saturday

So it's not the house warming party but its the annual (e:terry)'s 26th and (e:mike)'s 23rd birthday party and maybe my graduation party? Everyone is invited. Feel free to bring whoever you want, we have lots of space.

This saturday at 8PM at 24 linwood. It's at our own house now, so the front door is the right door for once. No more living in the rear!

(MAP TO: 24%20LINWOOD%20AVENUE)