Apr 07 2008

It’s Not Dead

I just wanted to make a quick post to point out the fact that, 2 days on, my blog isn’t dead. In fact, with more than double the normal page views (I’m not sure if that’s me testing things, you guys being nosy or the new structure working as planned) it’s coping remarkably well. No max_connection errors yet!

Please continue to bear with me while I get the remainder of the content up (the scripts is all, I think) and the old themes. After that you can all go nuts and tell me how many errors you find! :D

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Warning

This post is over 6 months old. This means that, despite my best intentions, it may no longer be accurate. Age, motherhood, experience, loss... these things have all changed me from when this blog was started back in the heady (ha) days of my youth.

As much as I would like to go back and edit 10 years of archives to provide an insight into the 'me' of now — to update coding snippets and revise website advice — it would probably take years to do so (by which point I'd have to start again!) This would defeat the point of keeping these archives anyway.

Please take these posts for what they are: a brief look into my past, my history, my journey.

13 Responses so far

  1. Daniel says: April 7, 2008 at 9:40 pm # ·

    I love the new structure and everything. It seems well thought out and it definitely flows better as now I can get to some of the blog entries that I like (PHP, security, etc) top the list.

    Anyway, I was wondering, do you think your database connection problems has anything to do with http://www.site5.com/support/rup.php under Resource Usage > Database Restrictions? I was wondering because I’m thinking of getting Site5 hosting myself.

  2. Vasili says: April 7, 2008 at 11:15 pm # ·

    Ahhh! What happened to your ask and answer? Is that going to be gone?

  3. Aisling says: April 8, 2008 at 12:04 am # ·

    Congrats on not being dead. :)

  4. Louise says: April 8, 2008 at 2:53 am # ·

    WordPress has saved the day!

  5. Mumblies says: April 8, 2008 at 6:11 am # ·

    I’m glad you are not dead too :)

  6. Paddy says: April 8, 2008 at 12:20 pm # ·

    Even when it was your own coded CMS, did you still have categories? Or did you have to go and add them all with WordPress? I’ve never seen (/noticed) them until now!

    I like the new commenting, looks good!

  7. Jem says: April 8, 2008 at 1:19 pm # ·

    @Daniel: I answered this via email but I’ll post it here too for anyone else interested… there’s nothing wrong with Site5s resource usage policy as such, they offer identical functionality to other large shared hosting providers. The problems lay entirely with my dodgy code ;)

  8. Stephanie says: April 8, 2008 at 4:56 pm # ·

    I’m not a fan of emoticons, but everyone looks fine thus far…

  9. Rachael says: April 8, 2008 at 6:28 pm # ·

    Don’t apologise for not blogging! *prod*

  10. Barbilee says: April 8, 2008 at 8:23 pm # ·

    :) i hopw you get every thing done soon :) i know me coverting from the old code to the wordpress was nto that hard for me atlset

  11. Claire says: April 8, 2008 at 9:01 pm # ·

    I must ask – where did you get the fandangly smilies? They’re adorable!

  12. Jem says: April 8, 2008 at 9:12 pm # ·

    @Claire: http://darkmoon3636.deviantart.com/

  13. connie says: April 8, 2008 at 9:37 pm # ·

    goood luck with the errors, i see none! :D