Max purchased a new TV.

Sony 46" Bravia

Oh and we're getting a free PS3 with it too :)

I've just spent the last half hour restoring some of my old websites (dating back to around 2004).

I thought it would be interesting to see how they'd changed.

I did something like this back in early 2004, and ended up with a PDF document called "Dalegroup Evolved".

This time it is a little more interactive as the websites are live (click on the screen shots to visit the site) :)

So the first on my list:

dalegroup.net - 2004

Dalegroup.net was my primary website before I started a blog. This site ran on one of my first CMS' and it is still working on PHP5 :)

I setup GD to generate the news titles into a coloured image that changed for each news item.

blog.dalegroup.net - 2005

This site was my first "real" blog and could be found at blog.dalegroup.net (no longer exists). This site ran on a script I called getnews and was simply a basic blog program I wrote during the HSC.

The customised CSS styles still work too!

bluetrait.com - 2007

Bluetrait was my first site completely separate from dalegroup. I don't remember where the name came from but the idea behind it was to write a blog script that people could download and use.

So bluetrait ran on Bluetrait 1 which worked pretty well for a few years.

And now we're at the end of 2007. Bluetrait.com is still around and is currently running Bluetrait 2 Alpha-2.

 

I've added Gravatar support to this site.

A gravatar, or globally recognized avatar, is quite simply an 80×80 pixel avatar image that follows you from weblog to weblog appearing beside your name when you comment on gravatar enabled sites.

I've been using WAMP (a Windows package that includes: MySQL, PHP and Apache) for dev purposes and it has been great.

The new version WampServer 2 is even more awesome. It is now possible to install multiple versions of Apache/PHP/MySQL. WampServer provides a tray icon that allows you to switch to a different version.

So now I can easily test Bluetrait with multiple versions of MySQL and PHP *is happy*

Bluetrait works with PHP-6 dev too!

phpBB3 is finally out.

SQLite is a pain to work with.

The problems I'm having:

• Where are the DATE functions!?
• Why can I not modify a table stucture with the MODIFY command!?
• Why don't LIMITs work on deleting and updating!?

Such a pain.

The only good thing about SQLite is that it just comes with PHP5 and you don't need to install anything.

MySQL has been working perfectly as usual.

Bluetrait Event Viewer (BTEV) is a plugin I wrote for WordPress that adds an event viewer similar to the one found in Bluetrait 1 and 2.

BTEV has just been updated to version 1.5.

Version 1.5 now includes an auto prune function to remove old events.

BTEV seems pretty popular, it has almost reached 700 downloads off the WordPress site.

I'm slowing building up a collection of plugins I've written for Bluetrait...

I got a Mac Mini for my birthday on the 21st. Specs:

Core 2 Duo 1.83GHz

1gb Ram

80gb HDD

Leopard.

It's awesome! I'll post some pictures later.

Recently the company I work for got another subnet to use, let's call it b.b.b.0/24 (and our current one is a.a.a.0/24).

We want to use this subnet to create more VIPs (Virtual IPs).

So we currently have:
a.a.a.2:80 -> 10.0.0.2:80

We wanted to add:
b.b.b.2:80 -> 10.0.0.3:80

Unfortunately trying to do this via the standard method fails with this error:

With the help of the juniperforum website a way was worked out.

Steps:

1) Make sure the new subnet is routed to your netscreen (in this case to our untrust int)

2) Create a new policy from UNTRUST to UNTRUST (yes this is not a mistake) with the following details:
Source Address: ANY
Destination Address: The external IP address you want to use i.e b.b.b.2
Service: The service you want
Under the advanced settings:
Enable Destination Translation
Translate to IP 10.0.0.3



3) To create more services to the IP address simply add another policy with the "Service" and "Translate to IP" details changed.

Note: This method mostly acts like a normal VIP. The only thing to look out for is that requests from the TRUST zone won't be translated.

More details can be found in the forum thread here.