Record Breaker

Jade actually did use the HELP button, I notice. But since I’ve been without net access for nearly three weeks I’ve not been able to answer it and clear up the backlog… My apologies, I shall get to that one shortly! Though its sort of superseded now 😉 Steve.

I have discovered an area of the DearDiary code that is hopelessly inefficient, and that is the area that generates the diary Indexes – that’s to say, either the calendar listing or the ‘long listing’ of your entries. To cut a long story hopefully somewhat shorter, the code would ask for ALL entry data from…

The server running AtMail has been upgraded to a .Net solution (homegrown) which gives us MUCH more flexibility to provide some awesome additions in the near future. The change was precipitated due to a number of people receiving emails that didn’t appear to be intended for them (although they were all spam and we suspect…

Hi Everyone, A couple of quick announcements… Firstly, after a user request for a facility to allow searching of your own diary (possible already with the Search engine) we have updated it slightly to allow you to put a link to it on your own diary. When you want to search a particular users’ diary…

First off I’d like to apologise to all users for our lack of updates to the Choice of the Week, we received quite a few suggestions and a few comments about the lack of update so thank you to all who did write in to the choice@deardiary.net address. As you can see this is now…

The system slowdown was due, we think, to a database query not using an index to find the information it needed… After looking deeply into the MySQL manual we discovered we could have the database actually tell us which queries were running slowly. From that we can then tell the database (manually) to tell us…