JeffCenter

Of course I managed to go yet another three quarters of a year without updating my web site...

I'm still in school, and I'm still working for Motorola; so that doesn't leave much time for updating my web site. Some recent things of note:

• The first phone to which I've contributed is slated to be released soon: MOTORIZR Z6
• I am in the process of switching web hosting providers to Server Axis.

This version of WebCam2000 adds a few features inspired by a patch from Robert Konigsberg: the locations of capoff.bmp and overlay.bmp are now configurable through the system registry, capoff.bmp is no longer rotated when the camera image is set to be rotated, and the WebCam2000 now has a way to quickly turn off the camera.

A new version of WebCam 2000 has been released. Version 1.66 adds support for HTTP basic password authentication. This gives users some degree of control over who can watch their web cam.

Additionally, left clicking on the WebCam2000 task bar icon now brings up a menu that allows users to control the server. Thanks to Matthew Heaton for helping add this feature.

Due to popular demand, Jeff has restored his document archive containing papers and other documents from his high school and college days. All of the papers have been converted to PDF files, and any announcment concerning the document archive should come with the note that Jeff makes no promises about the quality of these papers.

After nearly four years of not knowing what to do with the domain name thebadplace.com, Jeff has decided to make it home to his online journal. It will now become a repository for the accounts of interesting events in his life.

Jeff has completed a major reorganization of his web space. This reorganization involved the moving of WebCam2000 to its own domain and the withering of the Stratoware.com domain. A couple of things have also been removed from TheBadPlace.com. For instance, Jeff's archive of school papers is no longer online.

StratoSetup and Windows Restart have also been downgraded to the status of "no longer actively maintained." Jeff might still update them in the future, but he has no plans to do so at this time.

The main part of Jeff's web space is now generated using new site management software. The software is a distant cousin of the software used to create Jeff's KentuckyRoads.com web site. This version of the software uses a collection of Perl scripts to build static HTML pages based on a MySQL database. Jeff plans to test the software, do some refactoring, and release the software at some point in the future.

One of the new features of the site is the ability to comment on "news items" such as this one. See the "view/post comments" link below for more information.

As always, if you have any questions, comments, or concerns about Jeff's website, feel free to contact him.