Movies
My new exciting project is the UberZach Movies site. There you can
find my complete collection of DVDs (sans a few MST3K episodes that I'm still cataloging) complete with
pictures, descriptions, and other trivia and statistics. I wrote the web and database bits of course, but if it
weren't for Delicious Library, their iSight UPC scanning and Amazon.com's
UPC-based lookups and easy-to-parse pages I never would have created such a catalog.
I've recently added pagination and basic searching, but there's still no advanced search form available. The current
search includes title, director, release date and several other fields, but there's no way to specify a particular field or
any sort of combination logic. Someday I'll get to that "you have no more than 97 minutes to watch a movie and want to see
something released between 1980 and 1990" search interface, but not today.
Mail Accounts
UberZach.com has a fancy new server, and Zach would be happy to host mail accounts for anyone that previously
had accounts at googly.org. For that matter, he'd be happy to host mail accounts (including webmail, SMTP,
POP3 and IMAP access) for just about anyone. If you're interested email him.
Server Saga
The Server Saga was one of the only parts of the old googly page worth saving. You can now
find it here, at least until I think of someplace better to keep it.
Fancy, CSS Web Page
UberZach now has one of those fancy, CSS-rendered, PNG-filled, quasi-dynamic web pages. If you're not seeing
things like drop-shadow text on the buttons, or if the UberZach logo has a grey background rather than dark
blue, then your browser is out of date. Internet Explorer users, this means you. Find something that supports
CSS and PNG, and the web will love you. I'm not saying you can't use IE — this site is perfectly
acceptable in the reduced form that Internet Explorer displays — but you should at least let your
Microsoft sales rep know that you want proper CSS and PNG support.
profplump@uberzach.com
Page last updated: September 11, 2006 @ 01:02 PM CDT
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