Hurrah

Some of our users have raised concerns that what’s happening over at mBlog could happen at DearDiary.Net. For those that don’t know what’s happened here’s a quick synopsis. mBlog (a blog provider I knew nothing about until today) has closed it’s doors due to ‘member abuse, inablity to reach agreement with Moveable Type and rising…

Well, I said that I'd be doing more work on DD now that my new job is away from computers and after the server move, so what have I been up to? There's been a couple of things. Firstly I had to calm the search engine spiders down because the new server doesn't have such…

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…

Today the server will be up and down while I try to find out what it is thats crashing it, and put in place some measures to try to make sure it doesn’t keep happening… This involves a massive change to the security policy for the database and so its possible that some, or all,…

rutherford:[~] mysqladmin status Uptime: 15297 Threads: 2 Questions: 464752 Slow queries: 165 Opens: 407 Flush tables: 1 Open tables: 223 Queries per second avg: 30.382 30 queries per second on average over the lifetime of the running process. Which considering 8 hours of it have been reconstructing indices and would count as 0 queries, or…

Hi All, Matt here. This is just a quick note to say that I am in the process of moving house at the moment – packing has begun, we pick up keys tomorrow and the move itself happens on the 23rd. This means that for the most part i’m going to be off the net…