About this site

In the year 2001 I needed to create side for my interesting and very ambitious project. So I simply decided to write my own CMS and form engine. That form engine was quite advanced, it was able to perform both server-side and client-side form validation. Unfortunately I disabled JS validation just to reduce QA effort and never enabled it :-( So, starting 2001 my nameless CMS goes from site to site. Sites are dying, CMS is alive. The good thing is that I have no feeling "I need to rewrite it all". I am satisfied with my CMS, it is easy to support, easy to modify (for me of course).

This particular site (my personal site) was born in 2005. Design+HTML+CSS was done by my syster. For the first time I agreed that It is better to leave design & html for professionals . We were testing under IE5 & 6, FF1.5, Opera 8. I was surprised that it was not broken in browsers appeared later:IE7, IE8, FF2, FF3, Opera9 :-)

In the beginning of 2008 I was doing some tidyup and gallery improvement, and was considering switching to more advanced CMSs. I tried Drupal, Wordpress, Mambo, PHP-Nuke, MediaWiki(sic!), and they had significant learning curve and it was not trivial how to integrate with my gallery software. So I decided to stay with my CMS.

Gallery: It divided by(to? into?) 2 parts: First part runs on my computer (also PHP+MySQL under apache. Tried GTK but it was not very easy to use). Second part on the 14.by. The idea is that I manage photos on my local computer, add titles, edit, rate, categorize, and then press "put to web" button which recompress all changed photos with different resolutions, extract EXIF, put watermark and uploads to server. Now I can spend just several seconds to publish new photos on my site, and I am very happy with the code I wrote for that :-)

Like CMS, I understand that my gallery might be usefull for other people, but I am not going to compete with any existing products, and I just have no time to write documentation. So, do not think that I am greedy

I hope this site will have no major architectural changes till my next very ambitious project