Anyone wanting to get in touch with me about Pixaria Gallery in the next few days should take note that I'm away in France from Thursday the 30th of July until Tuesday the 4th of August.
During this time, I may not be able to respond to e-mails or fulfil purchases for Pixaria Gallery. Rest assured, I will respond to any messages on my return though it may take a little longer than usual depending on my backlog.
PermalinkIt's been a while since I last posted a development update on Pixaria so I thought I'd take a moment to share details of the latest work that's in progress. After realising that attempting to cram thousands of new features into Pixaria 3.0 was going to be impossible, I've decided to break the feature list down into more manageable chunks and implement them more slowly - a process that began with version 2.6.
With that in mind and continuing the theme of recent improvements to the admin components of Pixaria, the next release (2.7) will include extensive changes to the tools for managing images and galleries. In the recently introduced web upload tool for example, it will be possible to seamlessly add newly uploaded images directly to existing galleries or to create a gallery from scratch. Other changes coming in version 2.7 include support for Cooliris for galleries, gallery RSS syndication and improved gallery admin tools among many other minor enhancements and bug fixes.
Beyond 2.7, the next big development milestone will be version 2.8 where I will be concentrating on expanging and enhancing the e-commerce capabilities of Pixaria. Of particular note here is that a number of big features originally intended for inclusion in Pixaria 3.0 will hopefully find their way into this release including:
Over the course of the summer, I will also be restarting the Divestock website with a new look and full integration with Pixaria. Watch out for more details on that coming in the next few weeks.
PermalinkIf you have recently suffered from a really unpleasant, persistent bitter or metallic taste in your mouth and couldn't find an explanation for it, even after visiting a dentist or doctor, it's possible it might have been caused by Chinese pine nuts.
It seems that there is a minor epidemic of pine nut related taste disturbances going on in Europe at the moment and I've been unlucky enough to be one of the ones affected by it since I bought a big bag of Chinese pine nuts to snack on last week.
The nuts themselves tasted fine at the time but about six to eight hours after starting to eat them (long enough for me not to make the connection), the taste in my mouth evolved into something similar to what you'd expect after drinking a stale shot of espresso. Not wanting to be one of those people who Googles their symptoms and immediately comes to the wrong/worst possible conclusion, I only started hunting on the web today and was relieved to discover that pine nuts are the most likely cause and not heavy metal poisoning.
In the UK the Food Standards Agency is investigating the problem and from what I've read on the net, other countries' local agencies are doing the same thing so hopefully the cause will be determined soon. In the meantime, it seems that while the taste is very unpleasant and makes food and drink somewhat unpalatable, there doesn't appear to be any health risk involved...
PermalinkI've just been pointed (via Ajaxian) in the direction of an incredible new demo of the capabilities of 3D CSS transforms in the latest version of Webkit, the HTML and JavaScript processing software which lies inside Safari, Google Chrome and a host of other web browsers.
The demo, named Snow Stack, is an impressive example of how advanced new CSS and JavaScript capabilities can be used to implement the kinds of visual effects that were previously only possible with Flash or special plugins like Cooliris. The Snow Stack demo is itself very much reminiscent of Cooliris so if you're running a beta of Mac OS X Snow Leopard or have the latest nightly release of Webkit installed, it's definitely worth checking it out.
If you don't have either of the above, Ajaxian have a YouTube video of the demo here which will give you some idea of how it looks working in a real web browser.
As impressive as the demo is, the 3D CSS transforms and JavaScript used in the demo are not yet implemented in any web browsers so don't expect to see this turn up in Pixaria Gallery just yet!
PermalinkI've been having some more e-mail problems this week, this time due to a problem with the reverse DNS settings for the domain pixaria.com. My hosting company have fixed this issue for me but it does mean that some e-mails I've sent this week may not have not been received due to the messages possibly being treated as spam.
The issue has now been fixed and I'm looking into a permanent resolution for these annoying, ongoing problems.
If you've been expecting to hear from me this week but have not heard back, please send me an e-mail to info@pixaria.com and I'll get back to you using my alternative, @me.com address.
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