few updates, many upgrades

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.