News Archive
20 Jul 2010 Updated Site

Announcing the launch of the new Gaaflora Galleries website with all new photos and a much nicer interface. Stay tuned for more content on the site in the future!

12 Jun 2010 Server Migration

We are migrating servers. Some or all services may be down intermittently while DNS caches update around the world. Everyone should have fully restored access within 24 hours.

06 Aug 2009 XMPP Transports

XMPP transports have been temporarily disabled due to issues in the plugin that were causing denial of service problems. We are investigating and will hopefully have them back up in the near future. All registration info is still saved.

04 May 2009 Simple Stats Update

New bugfix release of Simple Stats. Fixes an autoplay issue and a potential log parsing crash.

19 Apr 2009 New Project

The projects section has a new application: Arista Transcoder, a multimedia transcoder for the GNOME Desktop. Be sure to check it out after upgrading to the latest Ubuntu release!

12 Mar 2009 New Site Launched!

The new site running on Django is now live! There are still a few issues and I'm working on making sure old links that are still being used properly redirect, but for the most part everything should be working!

24 Feb 2009 Server Move

The dedicated server is moving to a new facility and is getting some components upgraded! Hopefully everything goes well as the DNS caches flush and you get the new IPs, apologies for any downtime you may experience.

30 Oct 2008 Application Update

The key status monitor has been updated to work on 64-bit systems and automagically discover input devices.

28 Oct 2008 Blog

A couple of weeks ago I started a blog. It has a few posts now and is listed on the articles page. Enjoy!

22 Jun 2008 Updates

Simple Stats has been released and listed on the projects page. The photography section also has a few new photos added!.

05 May 2008 Public Beta

Bits on the Run, a new high quality video hosting and streaming service, is now open to the public! Check it out and share some videos!

28 Apr 2008 Server Downtime

The power supply decided to die today and we were down for several hours while attempting to get it fixed. All services should be fully operational again at this point. Sorry for the inconvenience.

20 Apr 2008 CleanAccess Update

I have posted a small update to the CleanAccess client so that it works again after some changes were made to the system here.

09 Feb 2008 IPv6 Support

Programmer-art.org and all services are now accessable via IPv6. Also, several new panoramas have been uploaded and you can now see previous news posts.

26 Jan 2008 Site Updates

Made a few small updates to the site backend code, changed the contact page to use a form, added a new Services section describing our XMPP server, and have started work on letting visitors zoom in on photos.

08 Dec 2007 Server Move

The site has moved to a new dedicated server run by Layered Technologies. The move from shared to dedicated hosting will give us the opportunity to provide more services at better speeds. The site is now running on lighttpd.If anything is broken please let me know!

04 May 2007 Oriven Updates

Oriven has been updated, some bugs fixed, and a paper on its design and implementation along with a presentation have been put up.

25 Mar 2007 Several Updates

Getting a lot of hits for old documents and projects so I created pages for them on the new site. The old links should redirect to the new pages.

03 Mar 2007 Photo Portfolio Updated

I've just uploaded the first batch of photos to the photography portfolio section. Enjoy!

04 Feb 2007 New Website Launched

The new design for Programmer-art.org is complete and online! It's new, it's clean, it's dark. Enjoy!

18 Oct 2006 Redesign Begins

Work on the new site has begun. I don't have as much time as I would like to work on it, but things are progressing nicely.

12 Sep 2005 Perfigo Client Update

Updated the Perfigo Client to log into Perfigo/Cisco managed networks automatically. Supports automatically accepting virus (and other) policies and fixes an update function bug.

26 Apr 2005 Python and Artificial Intelligence

An article has been posted about Python and artificial intelligence. A PDF version is also available.

29 Mar 2005 Perfigo Client Update

Updated the Perfigo client to log into Perfigo/Cisco managed networks automatically. Supports many new features, including autoconfiguration.

20 Mar 2005 Lila Themes Important Update

The Lila Themes have moved and are now hosted on BerliOS. Please update your bookmarks!

31 Jan 2005 Status Report

Updated member pages, added Perfigo client and article.

19 Jan 2005 Status Report

Added a new project and have mostly finished up the new page. Removed the construction banner.

03 Dec 2004 Programming Projects

The Porthole and SVG-Utils projects have been added to the projects section; expect an update to the artwork section soon!

28 Nov 2004 New Site

The new site should now be functional in most browsers, and we have started really moving content to the site! The site should be fully functional again within a matter of days!