That’s really the goal that myself and Rob and going for, speed. We’re aiming to create inexpensive, customized, and well designed websites for small businesses and organizations. In order to keep prices down and profits up that means we need to be fast. I think that using a CSS framework will help me out.

I watched Yahoo’s YUI introduction video by Nate Koechley and it taught me a lot. Yes I have to submit to their div names and whatnot but I think it’ll speed things up.

Open-Mesh.com is slowly but surely improving. Just recently I noticed their homepage changed slogans. It went from something like “WiFi for the developing world” to “WiFi Where You Need It”. I like the latter, myself.

New firmware updates have also happened and beta 1.21 has been released. There was a glitch upgrading to the c953 firmware because of the technique used to upgrade. This required a lot of people to manually reset their routers if they were using the test firmware. They fixed the problem by using the “normal” way to upgrade and version c955 went off without a hitch.

According to Antonio Anselmi, author of the ROBIN mesh network software which powers Open-Mesh, says that the latest kernel is about a week away. Yay!

There are limitations, for example if you put a PDF with ‘.thumb’ in the directory it will try to link it as an image. This is ok for me because I’m controlling what goes in the directories. I suppose I could add a check for it later if I need to.

<?php

/* This little snippet takes the directory and looks for any files with ‘.thumb’. Then it takes out the ‘.thumb’ to link to the big image. Then it makes a nice little list. */

$dir = ‘gallery/gallery2/’; /* Point to the right gallery directory */

echo “<ul>”;

if ($handle = opendir($dir)) {

while (false !== ($file = readdir($handle))) { /* Loop over directory */

if (strpos($file, ‘.thumb’)) { /* Look for the .thumb */

$filebig = str_replace(’.thumb’,”,$file); /* Remove .thumb for our big files */

echo “<li><a href=\”$dir$filebig\” rel=\”lightbox[1]\”><img src=\”$dir$file\” border=\”0\”/></a></li>\n”; /* Make the list with both file names */

}

}

closedir($handle); /* Finish */

}

echo “</ul>”

?>