Thanks to Xixora from #webdev, the little “Please don’t use IE because it’s a scourge” warning some of you might have been seeing has been adjusted to look a little less… drastic. If you’re browsing in firefox or anything else sensible you won’t have a clue what I’m on about but switch to IE and find out.
If you’re still browsing in IE, you’ll see the warning and are advised to check out “the other guys”.
Thanks Xix.
Don’t bother writing to me to tell me my contact form is broken. I have taken it offline after receiving a huge amount fo virusicated, multipart emails through it.
Damn spammers. **I don’t want your herbal viagra. Stopit.**
I’m investigating the problem, but really if spammers are now hitting contact forms as well as comments without resorting to captchas or silly general knowledge questions I’m a little short on ideas.
If you have any suggestions as to how to prevent comment-form abuse, especially using this comment form plugin: http://ryanduff.net/projects/wp-contactform/ then I’d love to hear from you.
For those who are members, the photography forum will soon be moving over to Vanilla and starting a-fresh. I’m looking out for some way of translating the posts from SMF to Vanilla but it doesn’t look hopeful, so it’s quite probably “clean sheet” time, with the old forum’s posts preseved somewhere in XML format for reference.
More updates when I have time to configure and style Vanilla, but it shouldn’t be too far off.
(If you’re wondering what Vanilla is, check it out at [the Vannila Homepage](http://getvanilla.com) )
As minor typos, small bugs and other annoyances are posted in regarding the AMM, I’m fixing them and quietly updating the downloadable files.
Can I just say to people please if you run into a problem, download and install the zipfile from the Sozu website in the software section before panicking 
The filename won’t have changed, the website won’t have changed but the contents of the zipfile ARE being updated.
Why not go for version numbers you might ask ? I’m not keen on letting bugs build up until we’ve got enough to warrant a “new version”, I’d much rather find it and fix it as soon as it’s reported.
FINALLY!
It’s done. It *might* have some really arcane and weird bugs in it that we’ve not managed to find yet by accidentally forgetting to search amazon for depleted uranium in the “Homewares” section, but the main thing is, it’s finally ready.
This new version is for WordPress 1.5.1.3 and above. That’s it. If you’ve got an older version of wordpress, UPGRADE NOW or figure out how to get it working for yourself, we won’t help you. 😉
The new version is so far removed from the old in terms of coolness and ease of use it’s insane, so the easiest thing for you to do is head over to the Sozu website and get yourself a copy of Amazon Media Manager for WordPress.
PLEASE NOTE: As people find minor glitches and HTML stuff-ups, we’re updating the downloadable version as we go, rather than waiting to release a “Fixed” version. I know this is naughty but hey… So, if you run into any difficulties with the AMM, please download and install the version on the Sozu website *first*, just in case the problem has already been addressed.
Sadly you won’t see it running on this blog just yet as I’m still on WordPress 1.0beta or something, but when I finally *do* get round to upgrading adn redesigning, it’ll be burning bright just over there in the sidebar. Or maybe the main body? Or maybe the header… Who could say. You can however see it in action so far at Randomtask and at Gabbages, thanks to both of them for doing some preliminary testing.
With that, good day!
Having recently fixed my thumbnailling uploader and gotten its golden ratio proportioning magic all ironed out, the enthusiasm within me to finally pen my proper gallery is growing. No timeframes, because I suck like that, but just let it be known that once I come up with a decent way to transmit image data via or within an XML-RPC system things will move on at a better pace. Cue Rob…
Speaking of Robulus from Randomtask, I’ve recently added a photo of him in all his awesome coolness.
A trooper of cool, we salute you!
(Now get busy on that code…)
OH NOES!
I have *finally* got my upload script in to some kind of functional state. It’s way off being releasable and the public gallery code isn’t nearly finished, BUT, at least for now I can get images coming back onto my site again.
It’s been FAR too long and I have a back-catalog now of about 2000 or more photos to go through, so I am going to be uploading at a fair rate. Don’t blink or, if my intentions remain true, you’ll miss them.
