Merry Christmas! I’m sure the best year is always the next year. Take more pictures!

I acquired this Rolleicord IIb on eBay for $28.  It’s made in 1938-1939, just a little bit younger than my grandpa. But it’s still in good working condition. I had to clean it up and re-conditioned the leather a bit. The taking lens has little marks. I sound checked the shutter speed, pretty accurate for everything above 1/10; slower speeds didn’t work.

I bought some Ilford HP5+ to go with it. We will see how they turn out. Excited!

It’s been a couple busy months. I just added two slides into the Portfolio section. They are from the projects I have been working on recently.  SugarCRM customization and a crawler for SEO purposes.

Here is a fix to another problem in ZuckerReports. The symptom is when a non-admin user is trying to run an on-demand report under ZuckerReports, the page just redirect back to the list of available templates without showing any result. But admin users can run them just fine. It turns out the problem is a conflict between ZuckerReports and CE Teams. CE Teams is another nice module that enable simple team-based management of users. You can read more about it on their page.

I haven’t have time to dig into the codes yet, so the fix is rather primitive and simple, but it works. The problem is that both ZuckerReports and CE Teams have a field called “team_id” in the database but they have totally different meanings. So when CE Teams read the info from “team_id” in Zucker’s database table, it acts weird. Admins are not affected since they are above CE Teams’ rules.

The fix:
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