chrisstreeter.com

I posted on the 5th about how the travel page now shows all my travels.  Well, I also mentioned that the page loads really slow.  I’m happy to say that I greatly improved the processing bottleneck that existed.  I implemented caching which has sped things up considerably.  Previously, the travel page took ~7 seconds.  The [...]

I’ve had a bunch of ideas recently for my travel page that I’ve wanted to implement.  However, in order to implement them, I’ve needed to rewrite the Javascript that powers the page.  I chose to use the my travel page that I’ve wanted to implement.  However, in order to implement them, I’ve needed to rewrite [...]

For a long time I’ve had a photo section on my site. Initially, I wrote the code that just searched through a directory structure for pictures that I had stuck in there. This worked fine for what I initially wanted, but didn’t scale well. Plus, it was quite slow. At the [...]

I fixed up the RSS link for my site. So now people should be able to get updates more easily.

I’ve got a new domain! I just secured the domain chrisstreeter.com! Previously, I only had chrisstreeter.net, which was nice and all, but .net just isn’t at the same level as a .com TLD. I set up some 301 redirects on my old domain which should make the transition as painless as possible for [...]

Well, it looks like I’ve neglected this “blog” long enough. It really isn’t much of a blog, rather, a place of (not so) periodic updates. I’ve really just focused this site on my photo gallery. Speaking of the gallery, I did some updating recently. Previously, I hosted galleries for 3 other [...]

I decided I wanted to do some maintenance on this site, and so updated the design slightly. The updated design fixes some tweaks with the layout that I’ve been wanting to do for some time. It also moves the sidebar back to the right, where it usually is. In general, the site [...]

I’ve been hunting for apartments in Santa Barbara recently, and one of my resources is the Santa Barbara News Press newspaper site. However, there isn’t any way to tell new postings. And since there are so many listings, I couldn’t remember them all. So I created a script that scrapes the Santa [...]

So over the past week I’ve pushed out several updates to this site. First I went ahead and changed the design somewhat. I like it better now, it seems less dark than before. Also, I cleaned up the page generation on the backend by increasing the modularity of all the pages. [...]