Not much to be told here; editing the website has become exponentially easier now that I purchased Editpad Pro. Excellent product. Notepad++ is a great tool, but it lacked what I needed as far as FTP support is concerned. Now, I can simply open the FTP panel, and edit files directly on the server; in fact, I can manage the entire website from editpad, save of course the blogs and the forum; I can upload images easily, look at the names of pictures so that I don't screw up their URL in the img tag, etc. But this is starting to sound more like a testimonial; anyway, with regards to the site itself, I've made a few slight cosmetic changes, such as the blue gradient in the headers of each item. It's still served up straight from a static page, though. Ideally, the news items would have a backend submission form that I use and the front end would simply load the news entries from the database and format it appropriately; not a huge amount of work but a slight PITA nonetheless, considering my awful luck with the downloads database recently with regards to keeping track of download counts. I recently updated the BCSearch installer; the release version is now at version 1.9. the next version I plan is 2.0, which will include support for a new feature I like to call "action filters" which are basically a group of operations to perform on a set of files, such as renaming, copying, moving, etc.

With any luck (and assuming I didn't mess-up my drive to drive partition copy with my new 1.5TB and somehow manage to overwrite my current data drive when the intention was to copy the data drive to the new disk) I will likely release a new version of BCScript soon; I'm starting to document it, also. I found it, oddly, easier to write the language then it has been to document it! In fact, I partly blame my enthusiasm for creating functions and operators and other things to the language for the difficulty I am having documenting it. I'm also planning a small tool that will be used to encrypt/decrypt files using the BCFile stream processing class that performs encryption. The encryption is performed using the Windows crypto API, so it should be pretty secure. It shouldn't be too hard to implement once I get started.

Revamped the crappy design scheme I had for the main pages. Awful. Simply, Awful, it was. It's not perfect now, but I don't think anybody can disagree that being able to read the text is a major plus. Still planning to implement some changes to the stylesheets and whatnot to facilitate spicing up the news entries shown here... and come to think of it, I've yet to even try to view the downloads page. *shudder*...

Planning a pretty major- actually, no, scratch that- I'm in the process of implementing some pretty radical new features to the site. For example, counting the number of times a certain file is downloaded (DEAR GAWD! that's AMAZING!)... but seriously, what I was thinking was a bug-tracking, or more precisely, a bug-reporting feature, that would allow anybody using a BASeCamp Program to report bugs they find in it easily. However- I'm not so sure that I'm quite up to the task; the design is pretty good; I have a few pages of designs for database tables and their relationships here, and it seems pretty solid; but If I know myself, I'll get to the point where I can build the database, and then I'll end up just using the same crappy PHP for displaying as I did for testing to make sure the database was being populated properly. Hell, that's pretty much what I'm doing with the downloads page.

Haven't updated my front page for a while. Looked lonely. Downloads PHP is working, I still need icons for a few of my projects, but adding them will be easy. The "articles" concept might be scrapped in favour of putting such things as blog entries, which has also been neglected. To be fair it's not entirely my fault; I was without internet for a week or so, which makes it a bit difficult to keep a web-site updated. I have a "updates" architecture working fine; my Visual basic programs can now easily query the site and see what version is current, and if it's newer recommend installing it. The GUI part of this still needs work, but I don't intend on releasing the current iteration of BCSearch or BCScript/BASeParser XP without this addition.