Asian Model Directory

Argh working on the Asian Model Directory is giving me a headache, basically different series made different directory hierarchy and I have to allow the script to adapt to different levels of folders.

I thought I got it right already I already uploaded 88Square 1-19, then on CD20 the script breaks cause of the Halloween set.

Galleria

Revised the slide viewer for the galleria, just minor changes with the cosmetics. There's still a bug with the picture moving forward when you change the zoom.

cache_lite

Cache_lite rocks! Without it my bandwidth was taking tremendous hit and now it takes a page in the cache 0.13 - 0.3 seconds to load. Had to reconfigure much of the existing pages as I was using it incorrectly

The whole site is looking much better now, more organized than before. Still got lots of plan for more features, one of them a model directory that identifies each model from different series. I know a lot of people miss the A4U Database. Hopefully I'll get it done tomorrow.

Finished the Slide viewer mode feature for the galleria last night. The option will show up on galleries that contains pictures and when using the TXT mode gviewer.

Galleria

Finished the thumbnail version of the galleria and the random pics page. They both turned out quite nicely.

thumbnails

I spent so much time last night trying to store thumbnails into mysql. I've always wanted to know if it was faster. So finally I did store it, but guess what, using the filesystem as thumbnail storage was faster. I was getting 2-3 secs total execution time when visiting a new gallery with no thumbnails yet when stored to mysql. While on the reiserfs it was like 1-2 secs, then after the thumbnails are generated it takes less than 0.20 secs to render a page but with mysql its like 0.35 or something then it just keeps getting higher the more thumbnail you have on the page.

Well the server had a hiccup. . . actually I kicked the powerstrip and the whole thing just went down. This is a temporary server, I will move the site again to another server that has more disk space. Scary though on windows when the power shuts down mysql never had a problem recovering, on this server the tables got corrupted.

I found this old image on one of my CD's, this was back in college when I was running SG on an old pentium III. I had an 18 gb of HD space back then, now I have more than a terrabyte of HD space.