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Support, bugs and fixes oh my...

Another week goes by and more bugs are squashed. I've done a fair bit of work on Pixaria this week and I will be spending what is forecast to be a wet and windy Sunday in London busy working on fixing yet more issues and adding a few nice little features for the next update.

This week, I've been looking at problems with Firefox and Internet Explorer not liking some URLs generated by Pixaria and dealing with some odd image importing problems that are affecting two users.

One of the most frustrating things about doing any kind of bug fixing in Pixaria is dealing with the idiosyncrasies of the users' own workflow which can vary widely depending on what Pixaria is being used for in each case. I've spent a huge amount of time over the last seven days banging my head against problems with character set encoding issues in IPTC metadata and supporting issues importing images that contain corrupt metadata. Each of these problems is an issue which is unique to the individual user and in particular their web server set-up and workflow which can make diagnosing and fixing the problem quite difficult.

As an example, images containing IPTC metadata encoded in western Latin but with accented characters will often not import correctly into Pixaria because PHP can't interpret the data properly until it knows what the text encoding is meant to be. This can be compounded in circumstances where the metadata is corrupt, inserted twice or present in more than one text encoding all of which are issues I've come across.

Notwithstanding a busy week, I hope to have a minor update out sometime early next week if not a little sooner.

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