Next week is YUI week at perberglund.com. Each day there will be a new piece of YUI goodness posted.

Today I’ve written my first Wordpress plugin! It was surprisingly easy. I wrote a plugin that lets me add pictures from the gallery to my blog posts. I used to generate the HTML code for the thumbnails with a script and copy-paste that code into my blog post which is far from optimal. Now I let the same script generate a string like this: [\mrdeus_plogger:60,59,15,14] (without the backslash) and the plugin transforms that into the images below. The BoA image to the right is also generated by the plugin.

It’s generated on the fly, so any changes I make in the gallery are shown directly in the blog. It will also re-generate any missing thumbnails. Now I can take this off my to-do list, but while writing this plugin I found a number of bottle necks in the Plogger code the gallery is based on, so I’ll have to add a couple of new points to the list instead

I’ve installed a BitTorrent tracker on the site that I thought I’d use when I share large files. This will be a substitute for the FTP mirror I’ve used so far. There are no new videos just yet, but I’ve made a torrent out of Ai’s Renai Shashin PV that I uploaded earlier.

I’d appreciate it if someone would try the torrent and leave a comment about how it went.

Renai Shashin PV (5:34 91MB)

(torrent | status)

Click “torrent” to download the torrent file and press “status” to view how many seeders there are, etc.

I’ve temporarily disabled the commenting function in the gallery. This is because I haven’t had time to implement an anti-spam solution yet (I’m going to use Akismet like I do in the blog). I’ve started getting some spam and I won’t have Internet access for a few days, so it’s disabled for now.

Though this is not really big news, I’ve started using Jerome’s keywords plugin which gives me these nice tag clouds that I use in the about page and in sidebar on the main page. I’ve modified the plugin a little, but nothing significant. Thanks to Jerome for a great plugin.

Today is an important day in the history of this site. I got my first comment spam! Yay, I’m popular! Luckily I installed Akismet a few days ago. “Luckily” if you didn’t want to hear about penis enlargment pills that is

Believe it or not, the gallery is now up and running. I ended up using Plogger, which I found very easy to work with. It is very easy to modify and I’ve made quite a few changes. Well, I guess it’s time to start filling the gallery up

I’ve made a small update of the design of the site. I’ve also made a few BoA and Jolin Tsai scans, but since the gallery isn’t up yet you have to go to SPRegulars.org to see them for the time being.

I’m currently looking into some image gallery plugins I could use for this site. I was meaning to program the gallery myself. I was meaning to program the whole site myself, but I’ve come to realize that it would take me forever to make everything I want just the way I want it. Since I’ve settled for the Wordpress blog, I’m now installing plugins with the features I want. After I’ve tweaked the plugins a little and made my own site layout I’ll start filling this place with goodies. I got my J9 New + Party Collection CD today and it comes with some very nice images of Jolin Tsai that I’m eager to scan and put on the site.

I bought a scanner yesterday (yay!)

I got a Canon CanoScan 4200F which is cheap enough and it seems good. It’s my first scanner though. I’ve only used scanners at Internet cafés and such before. I made a couple of scans earlier tonight. One of Jolin Tsai and one of Ai Otsuka. These aren’t properly retouched or anything. I’ll post proper scans of these two stars and many more once I’ve figured the scanner out and made my gallery.