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Note the Perlish geeks out there: I'm switching from DB_File to DBI:mysql, and adding "use strict" to the package as well.
For everyone else: I've given myself a big pile of work to do on the Hazel's Picture Gallery infrastructure, necessitated by the kludged-up database system I was using breaking down from the strain. Apparently it doesn't work well when the database file reaches 24 MB. (That's a lot, considering it's basically a database-encoded copy of the HTML, not the pictures themselves.)
I'm using the "Maria's Car" page as a test bed for working on it, so if you go there and don't see her car, don't panic. It just means it's under construction. (The website, that is, not the car.)
(edit 1:55 am) I've got my page-rendering software using a little bit of SQL now. The "Maria's Car" page has slightly different wording next to the "make a donation" button -- that wording comes out of the new database. Huzzah, I've reached an important milestone. Also, the old-style picture database has been broken up into chunks, with each piece covering a thousand pages or fewer. I.e. page 0001-0999, 1000-1999, etc.; the "Maria's Car" page is 3728 in the series. The four picture database files add up to about 15 MB, as opposed to the monster 24 MB file they came from. More later.
For everyone else: I've given myself a big pile of work to do on the Hazel's Picture Gallery infrastructure, necessitated by the kludged-up database system I was using breaking down from the strain. Apparently it doesn't work well when the database file reaches 24 MB. (That's a lot, considering it's basically a database-encoded copy of the HTML, not the pictures themselves.)
I'm using the "Maria's Car" page as a test bed for working on it, so if you go there and don't see her car, don't panic. It just means it's under construction. (The website, that is, not the car.)
(edit 1:55 am) I've got my page-rendering software using a little bit of SQL now. The "Maria's Car" page has slightly different wording next to the "make a donation" button -- that wording comes out of the new database. Huzzah, I've reached an important milestone. Also, the old-style picture database has been broken up into chunks, with each piece covering a thousand pages or fewer. I.e. page 0001-0999, 1000-1999, etc.; the "Maria's Car" page is 3728 in the series. The four picture database files add up to about 15 MB, as opposed to the monster 24 MB file they came from. More later.
