Reader Comment Fix

As of the end of today Dear Diary v1.0 is ready to go. We have to get the new server up and running (hopefully Monday) and get Dear Diary installed on it but the code itself is now (to the best of our knowledge) done with all known bugs fixed. Woohooooo 🙂

No this isn’t an ad for Viagra – lol – I discovered a bijou issue in the front page code, which bodes well for other areas as I come across them. Basically I had misunderstood the caching of Smarty templates and although the front page was delivering its content from a cached database query, it…

Atomic Albums search engine was one potential cause of a problem, this problem (displaying all pictures on the entire site if no search criteria specified) is now fixed, and a better way of displaying the pictures will be implemented in the next few days…. Sorry again. Steve.

Hi folks, At the moment direct links to your diary ie: username.deardiary.net are not working, this will be rectified as soon as possible, until then please be patient. Thanks.

The new release of MySQL has finally been released with the version of InnoDB that supports our type of database structure – notably tables that have rather large data blocks. I am at present testing this new version on my ‘sandbox’ machine at home, which is merrily replicating the main database and providing us (as…

I’ve had reports of Add Reader Comment not working like it should. Most notably it seemingly chooses a random diary to actually do the addition. I’m not totally sure why this is, but I have put some extra tweaks in place to ensure the integrity of the comments system and I hope it’ll kick it…