In the last few weeks I've released 2 new pieces of software, both to do with Visualhub and its excellent automation.

The first of these releases is Visualhub Monitor. This allows you to monitor and start your conversion from pretty much any web-browser in the world (provided you have it setup correctly), handy for when you do all your conversion on a headless machine.

The second of these is an evolution of Oimo and instead of taking one file and converting it to many different formats it takes many files and converts them all to many different formats so naturally its called Mimo.

I hope that if you do use any of my applications you'll not run into any bugs - if you do get in contact and I'll do my best to remove them.

I've recently tinkered a tiny bit with the design of the site and added a bit of a drop shadow, I'm still not 100% on it so it maybe disappearing at some point in the future but I feel that the site needs a bit of web 2.0!

I've managed to get myself quite a few little projects lined up for over the summer now and in no particular order they are:

Write a new scoring system for BUTC (British University Team Championships - an inter-uni archery competition), this will be based in PHP and be using SQLite as the database.

Write a piece of iPod software to keep track of scores and stats, obviously using Cocoa - when I finally get round to learning it!

Add more functionality to the DUAC website, I'm thinking of adding a full backend to the site to help make managing the club a lot easier - compertition scores, membership details, competition entry, mailing list management... basically the whole 9 yards.

Do something in Java to keep my Java fresh in preparation of the SEG project next year.

Finally finish off my semi-secret Visualhub project - its almost there but I'm waiting on a fix from Tyler and well a little motivation on my part - also release MIMO

I seem to have a lot to do over the summer...

I've been playing with Chyrp for a little bit now and I find myself liking it more and more as I use it more.

The theme system is great, it allows you to do pretty much anything you could want, I've been slowly developing a new website for a club here in Durham (I'm trying to keep this project semi-secret so no more details till its done) that requires things that most clubs want, a gallery, a little bit to say whether or not a practice session is on, an easy way for someone to update pretty much anything without having to know, well anything, about html/coding and various other little bits like that.

Chyrp has allowed me to fly (no pun intended) with the development of the site, I've basically taken a template and heavily modified it to suit my needs, using nothing more than CSS and the tinniest bit of PHP.

I've written a custom gallery script with an upload page for users to easily add new pictures/galleries without having to use a database (its actually kind of cool and I may add it to my software page because there seems to be nothing else like it out there...) and I'm in the process of making a simple indicator as to whether or not a practice is on.

Anything needing admin privileges is remarkably easy to add, a simple if statement and you can only allow admin users to view certain elements on a page.

Basically Chyrp rocks your socks off

I'm quite bored tonight so I'd though I'd post a little update on here, although I promise its never going to become a full blown blog. I'm currently waiting Chyrp be updated with a flat file ability and for some enterprising soul to add a module that will enable chyrp posts to be imbedded in much the same way as cutenews (although keeping the various things in the left column would be nice) I've also been experimenting with having it in an iFrame but that isn't the best of solutions mostly because its an iFrame (I have a hatred of frames, if I had my way they'd be rounded up and shot, then poisoned, then shot again and then finally thrown in a river encased in concrete)

I'm also in the process of writing a new piece of software for Visualhub that might just change the way that people use it - I just need to add a few features, some polish and I should have it out of the door, but at the moment its playing second fiddle to the rest of my obligations here at university so it maybe sometime in coming but watch this space!