The WebSearch is over!

Or something like that…

This evening I made the aforementioned (previous news item) changes regarding the search skin for Matt’s Home on the Web. It was a relatively simple adjustment, really…just copying the style stuff from one template into another, making appropriate adjustments to reflect the different nature of the script.

Anyway, in addition to that, I also simplified at great length the nature of WebSearch in this web. No longer are all the complex options available, but a very simplified set, which only allows searching through topics in Matt’s Home on the Web. This made sense to me, as it seems somewhat unnecessary to allow searches through all public webs (or to put searches into BookView…which is really intense)…as well as allow all the confusing (even to me, sometimes) options for searches. Right now, the way it will stay…is a simple text search (or by topic name). After all, there’s not all that much stuff here (mostly news items now) to go through.

Sever weirdness is still happening… Swapped processors (not motherboards) in the new one, thinking that might be the problem. I’m still led to believe that it’s probably something else (like the CD-ROM). For the meantime, I’m going to put that project on the back burner.

I’m still thinking about the software page (mentioned in a previous news post) bit. I’ve downloaded all of my stuff from epoxy (one of the bigger backend Computer Science Discipline servers at UMM) and am in the process of going through it. I actually dug out the core Java books, too! For the stuff written in Java (namely the RSA stuff, possibly the RatBastard Mailer), I’d like to create either application-like features (e.g. can run without the JDK libraries installed — self-sustaining things)…or .jar files for download and execution. Upon initial investigation, I’m going to stay away from applets, mostly because all the stuff I’ve ever written in Java (that’s cool, anyway) needs to have access that the Java plug-in (for browsers and applets) won’t let you have. But that’s another project, and hopefully I’ll have most of the more neat stuff I’ve written published online sometime in the future. After all, I’m all done with school now…so there’s no real reason for me to keep it hidden.

This post was upgraded to the MZ Online Blog on 8/20/07