Secret Santa / Pollyanna / Kris Kringle
The SecretSanta project is still alive. The code is starting to show its age, but only in the way it generates its HTML, which needs some cleanup. With the experience I have gained on the myDVDs application during the transition to XHTML 1.0 compliance, I can see now that the SecretSanta application needs a little TLC.
Besides, I’m not a big fan with the way the background keeps changing. 
However, everything about the application still works, and it works very well. I do not forsee updating the code base any time soon. I also won’t be implementing cookies, either, since the idea is to make it such that no one else can see your pick!
MyDVDs 3.0.5 Now Available
myDVDs 3.0.5 Released!
This bug-fix release cleans up the entire HTML generated code to be fully XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliant. All of the pages have been checked against the w3.org validator and passed which means that, so long as you have a decent browser, things should look the same despite the platform you are on.
Additionally, I made some general code fixes and clean up throughout as I cleaned up the HTML code. A fair amount of progress was made in supporting the use of the apostrophe (’) in the name of collections (eg: “Rich’s Collection”). All previous versions of myDVDs would break horribly if an apostrophe was used (this is because of the way mySQL uses apostrophes).
Some big news is that the Region1 automatic download, unzip, and install is now functional on Windows! I tested this on a WAMP5 setup using “pkunzip.exe” with the appropriate options (see the help pop-up for the proper arguments for your platform).
All changes have been comitted to the SVN repository and solidified in the “myDVDs-3.0.5″ branch. The “trunk” of the SVN tree will remain as the development branch.
As a consequence of the XHTML 1.0 Transitional compliance, a fair bit of effort was put in towards utilizing templates. Now, it is not fully there yet, but, as of now, you can adjust the CSS and the overall layout via the files within the template directory. Future releases will have more of the specific definitions (font style, size, background image, etc) moved in to the template “css.txt” file to allow for more personalized customization.
Full details of all of the changes can be found in the CHANGELOG (http://mydvds.wesmo.com/CHANGELOG) file.
As usual, it can be downloaded in multiple formats:
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