Install Oracle’s VM VirtualBox on my Ubuntu Linux – I’m a little late to this topic on the PC. Why? I don’t know. It’s even more puzzling considering I was a IBM Systems Programmer and one of my responsibilities was administering the VM OS on the mainframe, before the this was ever available on the PC. Anyway I’m having fun booting Windows 2000 in Ubuntu. Oddly Win 2000 boots much faster in Virtualbox than natively.
System information
Added link to “About” menu to display system information. Why? Because as a former Systems administrator I am curious about such things. I tried phpSysInfo 1st, but it didn’t work for me. Possibly needed PHP configuration changes, which I can’t do (not my server). Next tried Linfo which worked as provided, and gave me the info I wanted.
WebTrees
Switched Web genealogy software from phpGedView to WebTrees which was derived from phpGedView. I had just updated phpGedView recently to v4.2.3. but the effort wasn’t wasted because that version was required to migrate to WebTrees (using their wizard). Many of the same developer’s of phpGedView are now working on WebTrees. It sounds that they cleaned up the code to make it easier to maintain. I also liked the fact, to quote them “Webtrees is database only. This lets us use database transactions, etc. to ensure that any edits/updates won’t leave any half-completed changes.”
Dog database
Many changes to dog database (haven’t updated in a few years), many new additions.
phpGedView [Genealogy]
Updated phpGedView from version 4.1.1 to 4.2.3
Calendar PDF
Modify Calendar programs to generate nice PDF calendar’s that can be printed. Much harder than the simple PDF I created on 10/28/09.
Dynamic PDF
Added a PHP program that dynamically generates a PDF report. I generate a birthday report based on the current day. Data is read from the SQL Birthday database. I use the FPDF library.
Google ads
Went to my dog-size.com website and noticed that the Google ads displayed a green rectangle where the ads should have been. Supplied the missing info to google. And created a privacy policy from a sample on one of their forum pages. This seemed to restore the ads.
Change PHP extensions
Change file extensions of older programs from ‘.php3’ to ‘.php’.
AJAX (Not Comet)
Add some simple AJAX web pages.