Thu Tu’s Blog

For the second year in a row, Google accepted Coppermine to be a mentor organization in Google Summer of Code. Yay!
I am again going to be an organization administrator to coordinate Coppermine's participation in the program. The student that I mentored last year not only continued to work with Coppermine, but signed up to be [...]

As I mentioned before, some of the participants of Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit had dinner together the night before the "unconference" earlier this month.
When I volunteered to make dinner reservations due to my being a local, there were less than 10 people. By the time I was to make reservations earlier in the [...]

Yay! I will be going to Google Summer of Code Mentor Summit where I will get to meet some of the mentors and organization administrators of GSoC. What I look forward to in particular is meeting open source developers from other teams, and around the world. The only bummer is that I am the only [...]

The 2007 edition of Google Summer of Code has come to an close. I'm happy to write that each of the four students who worked with Coppermine Photo Gallery have passed. Many thanks to the students for the work on improving Coppermine and hopefully it's the beginning of not just their work with Coppermine but [...]

Have you ever been at a web site and wanted to find something on it but couldn't because the site either lacked search functionality or had a useless one? Did you want a tool to help in your predicament? Here's one that I've found helpful: Search Everywhere by Paul Komarek. It was developed by a [...]

Outdoor Slumber Party
Earlier this month, I went white water rafting with co-workers as part of a team outing. It was a lot of fun, along with some hard work.
The night before the rafting, we camped nearby to avoid having to do a 3 or 4 hour drive the morning of the rafting trip. We [...]

My Wordpress blog url structure for posts is of this pattern: /blog/year/month/date/post-title/
Ignoring the fact that a post could also show up in /blog/ and /blog/category/ and other places, the same post could show up in:
/blog/2007/
/blog/2007/07/
/blog/2007/07/21/
/blog/2007/07/21/post-title/
The duplication is not as big of a concern (to me) as the possibly poor user experience when someone encounters one [...]