Martin Geisler Online

Just as I have put my site back online and written a single post I see that Janus already has posted about it… impressive! So now I of course just have to try out making a post about his post — using the TrackBack thingy of course!

So far WordPress seems to do what it’s supposed to do: give me a clean platform for writing stuff for the web. I have yet to checkout the post-by-mail feature, but since I like editing my stuff in Emacs I think I might love this thing — for I am of course sending my mails using Gnus from within Emacs :-)

My site has been lying dormant for the last couple of months, ever since NETsite decided to upgrade their server to the latest and greatest version of PHP: version 5.

That unfortunately broke my installation of PhpWiki. I believe that the CVS version of PhpWiki can run on PHP 5, but I haven’t tried. So now I’m giving WordPress a spin. It was mostly after I discovered Markdown which allows me to write in a Wiki-like syntax that I was convinced to try.

I’ve just seen that version 1.0 of everybodys favorite browser, FireFox, has been released. The main Mozilla site seems to be under heavy load, so please go to their European mirror instead.

Try using Coral for a faster download:

• Linux
• Mac OS X
• Windows

or use BitTorrent:

• Linux
• Windows

I’m looking forward to seeing the add which will be put in the New York Times to celebrate the event. This release is quickly becoming a world-wide celebration of OpenSource software, it’s amazing! -Martin Geisler

I’ve just had the unpleasant experience of seing GimpsterDotCom in InternetExplorer — that browser cannot handle transparent PNG images, and therefore the little rounded corners that I use show up with a black background instead of the intented light-blue background.

”Please!” If you’re seeing those ugly black quarter-circles all over the place, then switch to a proper browser which will render the page and graphics as it is supposed to be rendered. Moreover, using FireFox will protect you against lots of nasty stuff on the web, and give you a quicker browsing experience. -Martin Geisler

Everybodys favorite (well… at least it’s my favorite) EXIF editing library — PEL, the PHP EXIF Library — just got better! Version 0.7 has been released. -Martin Geisler

Notes

Running PEL under PHP version 5.0.2 would produce incorrect EXIF data, this was fixed so that PEL works correctly on all versions of PHP 5. PEL now runs on installations without support for Gettext, but does so with English texts only. A new example script was added, showing how one can mass-rename images based on their timestamps using PEL. The Danish translation was updated slightly. The collection of test images has been split out as a separate download, cutting down on the size of a PEL download.

Changes

• The image tests are now split into their own, separate download.

• Added a test image from a Canon PowerShot S60.

• Fixed a bug caused by a change in the way PHP 5.0.2 handles integers larger than 2³¹-1. This change means that one can no longer use PelConvert::longToBytes() to convert both signed and unsigned bytes, one must now use sLongToBytes() for signed longs and longToBytes() for unsigned bytes.

• Added a work-around, so the PEL will run (with English texts only) on installations without support for Gettext.

• Added test/rename.php which shows how one can easily rename images based on their EXIF timestamps.

• Updated the Danish translation.

• Removed trailing newlines at the end of Pel.php and ~PelConvert.php.

Download PEL

http://prdownloads.sf.net/pel/pel-0.7.tar.bz2?download (279 KiB)
http://prdownloads.sf.net/pel/pel-0.7.tar.gz?download (453 KiB)
http://prdownloads.sf.net/pel/pel-0.7.zip?download (608 KiB)

Download Image Tests (optional)

http://prdownloads.sf.net/pel/pel-image-tests-0.7.tar.bz2?download (986 KiB)
http://prdownloads.sf.net/pel/pel-image-tests-0.7.tar.gz?download (991 KiB)
http://prdownloads.sf.net/pel/pel-image-tests-0.7.zip?download (998 KiB)

View the full ChangeLog online

http://pel.sourceforge.net/doc/ric_ChangeLog.html#v0.7