ACID: Keeping your database safe
Sunday, April 8th, 2007Have you ever had the power shut down on your database server while it was running and prayed that the database wasn’t corrupt? If so, you’ve probably worked on Database Management Systems (DBMS) that did not implement ACID, specifically atomicity and durability. We can cover the other concepts in another post, or you can read […]
BSQ Sitestats has joined the war on spam
Tuesday, September 5th, 2006I was planning on freezing BSQ Sitestats for the upcoming 2.2.x release, but I started getting attacked by porn spammers last week on my demo site. NOT COOL. Battling scripts with custom SQL commands is no fun, so I came up with a few different solutions that you will all enjoy:
Banned Referrer Words
Most of the […]
Two more features for BSQ Sitestats 2.2.x
Tuesday, August 22nd, 2006As you read in the last post about BSQ Sitestats, 2.2.x is well on its way to completion. In fact, I’m down to the last couple bugs before I do an alpha release. woot. Here are two of the several new features that will be included in 2.2.x.
Page Titles
If you look at the forums and […]
Language overload
Saturday, July 8th, 2006So I was sitting at my desk today, working on a Python script for work, and I came to the realization that I had forgotten most of the Python that I’d learned in April. Sure, after staring at somebody else’s code for 30 seconds, I got the gist of what I was supposed to write. […]
Gallery2 Multisite and WPG2
Monday, June 26th, 2006So, I mentioned to Michiel today that I was planning on doing another Gallery2 installation for Bethany since the WPG2 (Wordpress G2 integration). He brought it to attention that you can run an infinite amount of installations off of one code base. ORLY?
Gallery2’s multisite feature is amazing, and you can even add multi-galleries to existing […]