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I've already revamped my photo gallery to use the same look and feel as everything else on my site now.

But there's a small problem - now I want to add tags (topics) to my photos, and have pretty much the same functionality as I now have with my blog.

While the primary CGI that drives the main display was completely re-written, the interface I use to add captions to the photos is pretty much still the same old code, and might be a little harder to work with.

But I think I'll give it a go anyhow.

Please forgive me - I'm working on updating this. "This", of course, can mean different things. But what I mean is that I'm working on finishing my Grand Unification Project. What's that? Well, I'm finally bringing everything together. And finally making my blog public. It's done in Catalyst, everything else is plain CGI.

All this means is that you might find some things that don't work from time to time. If you encounter this, please excuse me. I'm only human. I can't know about every single bug. Yet.

So far, most of my blog has been updated. I even have a new version of my photos up and running. Even my resume has been somewhat updated... :)

So I'm in love with catalyst all over again.

I got tired of trying to figure out all these fancy-schmancy Object Relational Mapping database classes and trying to massage them to be able to understand my simplified database - which is a single table which is joined to itself for attaching a comment to a particular entry. I really didn't see any need for a separate table, since the structure of a comment doesn't really differ from the structure of a root post. Other than the fact that a root post doesn't have a parent.

Thinking that restructuring the database was just too much work, I just ripped out the ORM and created a model class that simply ran queries and returned the results.

Also, I added support for running my blog as a CGI and found that it was a really simple conversion, and only needed to update a few methods that I wasn't properly using before.