Chip Ups

There have been relatively few posts to ChipCrunch.com over the last few weeks, but do not worry, a lot of work has been happening on the backend. First, the site was moved to a new server in order to enable php5 support. And while conceptually this ought to be a rather simple process, in reality nothing is every this simple. Several parts of the site experienced minor issues after the move that needed some time to be worked out. While working on them, we also fixed a few bugs related to article commenting, cross-browser image alignment, and the mobile version of this site. We also upgraded most of the third party components that we utilize to their most recent versions, which of course took some work as well. Finally, we added social-bookmarking for each of our posts so that you can easily bookmark and share them utilizing whichever service you prefer. Hopefully, you will find this new functionality useful. Should you encounter any issues with it or with any of the other upgrades, please let us know immediately so that we can address them. Anyhow, once all the backend work was mostly done, it was high time for a vacation. A real vacation is a vacation sans laptop, which explains the lack of updates recently, but now that I’m back updates will start appearing at the regular pace.

Waiting for a plane or train is never fun; as a matter of fact waiting for just about anything is usually not a very enjoyable experience. As such, we’ve been working on a version of this site for mobile devices, which can now be found at mobile.chipcrunch.com. Additionally, it can be accessed through the Mobile link in the main navigation panel at the top of this site. We’ve worked very hard to make the mobile version XHTML Mobile 1.0 compatible just as we spent significant effort in making the main site XHTML 1.0 transitional compliant. We hope that you will enjoy this new service, just in case you are stuck who knows where and don’t have your laptop handy. Most importantly, if you encounter any problems or issues, or if you have any suggestions about how to improve this site to make it more valuable to you, please be sure to let us know. Big thanks go out to Denis Ryabov and his site, which provided the initial code which we modified to enable us to provide the mobile version. Enjoy!