Test entry, ignore

Or, oh my database. Many of you may have noticed that the service in the evenings (for Americans, earlyish morning for Aussies and lateish for us Europeans) is less than optimal. In some cases it just refuses to work altogether. You may see ‘sorry, the server is too busy to process your request’ in a…

Someone wrote to me somewhere, but I can’t find the message now so I apologise for not having responded directly. However, the message indicated that the migration system was broken, because users were being told that their username already existed on the new system when in fact it did not. This was due to a…

OK, I’ve installed a brand new database version and switched the table type on atomic.users to be InnoDB. This should almost instantly fix a bunch of the locking issues because InnoDB has row level locking. The only downer is the possibility that InnoDB still has the bug we tickled a few versions ago when we…

For some time now people have been struggling with inputing their entries onto DD – at least it seems that those who were using the HTML editor and IE8 were having issues. I think there was an incompatibility with the old HTML editor which for some reason was only showing for users of IE8. Unfortunately…

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You may have noticed that although the server hasn’t been crashing over the last few days, it has been giving the good old ‘Unable to Connect to Database’ error, or possibly Internal Server Error’s. This was due to a misconfiguration of the PHP module and the database, which is now sorted. Hopefully that’ll be the…