After 9 days Sarah is finally home from hospital, on the Mercy Hopital tag and release program. No Baby, but we are close. I am just so happy for her to be home. So for the next 10 days things will be back to some sort of nomality.

Again because of Bill I was up all night triing to find a bug in my clients web site, to find that IE6 has a new security option that will stop a standard meta tag. So I had clients that couldn't get to a the extranet web site because of this security. This is a standard tag, and if I can I will always use a standard tag over javascript. Oh well it is fixed now.

I am really beginning to dislike IE more and more. I know that it is accepted as the most compatible web browser, and everything looks the best in it. well what I have to say about that is its a bastard to program for. I find that mozilla is much better and has better concepts. This is probably because the mozilla programmers for the most part are just people contributing and doing any work for nothing, and are more concerned with having a better browser that triing to gain world domination.I have found that doing somethings for my clients is always easier for mozilla, and I always get better results.

My only dislike of web programming is that I have to use windows as Dreamweaver only comes out for windows and OS X. I wish they would bring it out for Linux, then I would not have to use windows to do the majority of my commercial web work. BTW I use vi for drupal and stright php so I am not a total sellout.

As for the baby update we have just over a week to go, and then we will have a brand spanking new baby. I just hope that the owners manual comes with this one. I am planning to get up pictures or the new baby in it gallery as soon as possible. I just wish I had a digital camera and then it would be even quicker.

We we are definatly getting closer to the due date, and I am just rushed off my feet, oh well it will not be long before it is all over, only 2 weeks to go.

Well I am still having some minor problems with the new network at work. the biggest problem is that I have 2 connections to the internet and I am not load balancing them. I have certain talks that use one link and the rest use the other. Oh well I will get it soon. Just a little bedding down.

I also need to get my butt into gear and add the inserting of images into htmlarea, I am going to do this with the new fscache that I created for filestore2 which will mean things will be pretty striaght forward. Just need to do some wokr on the fileuploads that the default htmlarea uses to do this. add some filtering in both htmlarea and fscache and it will work really great.

Ok so we spent half the day in the hospital for the checkup for the baby. it seems that they are getting a little quicker but it is getting very draining on Sarah. The doctors are talking about bringing the baby on sooner, which will be good for Sarah but it is going to give me problems with my project that I am working on at the moment, but thats life. So it is looking like it is going to be another 3 weeks and then it is going to be battle stations.

Also on a slightly different note. RSLcom is really giving me the shits, basically they have been charging us at work for the last 2 weeks and we are yet to have a service. I would really like to get rid of them but unforcantly I am only the idiot that has get all this to work, not the one the makes the decisions.

also I have spent the afternoon getting my web site resurected after my test machine ate itself during the move. I have managed to get most stuff back but time will tell if I have lost anything.

I have been doing some javascript programming to enable the input form to be more intuitive, and allow for faster entry... Well if it wasn't IE, it was Mozilla giving me problems.

I just hope that the next generation of browsers have the same backend, which means that if it works in one it will work in all.

Mozilla has a very good javascript implementation I would really like to see other browsers take that one and use it, including Microsoft. Yes Bill you can use this without having to give the entire source to IE, and you get all this W3C DOM code free of charge and you just need to create a form of segration between the Mozilla code and IE and you would be right.

No One like propritory standards, and the amount of crap that web developers need to go thru is total bull shit, and people are more educated now and believe in choice.

Well that is my incoherant ravings for the day.

Well I finally done it and have gotten filestore2 working, it is now in my sandbox and it seems to be working ok. I do have a problem where I can't update the form() to enable the file upload, but hopefully there are some patches that will fix that.

BTW I am at least going to put it on my web site soon.

I have gotten my domain heydon.com.au (I know... very original) so I am now in the process of moving all my email and stuff to it.

Well I have finally started filestore 2.

It is going to be a complete rewrite of filestore with some major differences. with the biggest being that now the uploaded files are stored in the web site file system so we will now be able to upload much large files without the need for more memory. To accomplish this I have created a new modules called fscache which is a file system cache which handles all the underlying storage so that there are no file name conflicts and also only storing 1 copy of every different file to save space.

I hope to have a beta release of this in my sandbox in the next week or so.

I have bitten the bullet at work and I have put the new drupal web site out there for everyone to see so we can finally get it off my plate and working all the time.

I made it possible for anyone to access mny little corner of the web.
I have also made some other changes to filestore to allow uploading with newer versions of drupal, but it still needs some work.