Help Me, Help you!!
I don't really want to help you, I was just trying to be nice!
Friday, April 8, 2005 by T-Man | Discussion: Blogging
Last week we implemented some new code that helped speed up queries in the forums (ie the Chatroom Marathon thread). This appears to also have helped the stability of our sites a bit by reducing server load against our database. Having our servers go all last weekend without any major problems felt really good as that has not happened in some time. I think we are finally starting to see a light at the end of the tunnel! 
Moving on to what I managed to accomplish this week....I continued with my project to create a system where we can write parts or pages of our sites to static html files. Our goal is to have the home page a pure static HTML file. I already have the news on the home page written to a static file so that should help reduce some processing already. Most of my coding on the static system has been on the GalCiv2 website where I already have an internal version where GalCiv2's home page is static. I will get that moved to our production server next week and then we will start to migrate more of that code over to WinCustomize.
I fixed a major bug in Stardock Central where if you had two accounts with the same email address that it may not pick up your product registrations properly. Most of the people reporting this problem were on the gaming side of things so I'm not sure if anyone here will notice that fix.
Editing news is now fixed so that should make Black Xero happy as we are now able to moderate them again.
On JoeUser there were some sub forums that you were not able to get to via any links, or if you posted to the sub forums the article may not filter up properly to the root forum. I tweaked some of the data in the database to fix those problems.
And lastly I fixed a bug where uploading personal images that it would generate an error. There were several other issues I worked on that are not worth mentioning so I won't. That's all for now folks!
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Reply #8 Saturday, April 9, 2005 2:17 AM
| Editing news is now fixed so that should make Black Xero happy as we are now able to moderate them again. |
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Thanks ...
Reply #9 Saturday, April 9, 2005 2:57 AM
| Fear not....I'll rush off and find some more bugs.... |
You also going to give them names as you find them?
Reply #10 Saturday, April 9, 2005 6:59 AM
So hats off to you, T-man. You know the sensation of keeping your emotions in check and not panicking when faced with a daunting task.
The Dragon walked away with only one sting which happened when I assumed the nest was dead and started to remove the medicine ball sized hornet home. Still a couple alive on the inside. Oops.
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Reply #14 Saturday, April 9, 2005 12:14 PM
I keep experiences slow spurts and downtime overy few minutes.
Reply #16 Wednesday, May 4, 2005 7:56 AM
I guess inline frames have a use afterall.
Those more dynamic areas of the pages can be another static html file or a asp script (being that it is a small request not a whole page) so iframes can make things cooler (except when you end up with info going past the area dedicated for it. either you get a scroll bar or you just don't see it)
Good work t-man. You should be getting a thank you email from me shortly for this idea (and other stuff I am wondering about)
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Reply #1 Friday, April 8, 2005 3:49 PM