More project updates

well, I got some more work done.

the phpirc client is in a working state, although it still needs a lot of work done to it. add some commands, better support for multiple channels, and a nicer interface.

i finished modifying imagevue so that it works with my rogers photo site. my scripts actually go out and parse rogers site and grab all the important data, and output .XML, which imagevue then uses. I'll release the code to parse rogers site to .xml soon. unfortunately, my site isnt the best to demo the technology on, because on rogers, all my photos are between 2 and 5 mb (HUGE). if you were to have a look at it, i suggest starting with "other peoples european pics" because theyre at least in some smaller format.

I may tear down my rogers site and re-upload everything at a reasonable size at some point.

It's also quite slow. retrieving and parsing each album takes some time, so i just have it cache the .xml files locally. also when creating the thumbnail pictures the first time its viewed, it has to suck the whole image down to the webserver and resize it. but after that its fine. one could go to the trouble of pre-creating all the thumbnails, but its going to happen automatically anyhow.

Also, after i posted the CSS mockup of tomes, i looked at it in IE and realized that its not the right version i posted. i had made one that looked almost exactly the same in IE and firefox. ill find the correct version and replace it soon.