August 8, 2006 at 11:41PM And... we’re back!
That was a bit of a long hiatus alright! It’s only right that I post up some kind of an explaination, and I’ll do it in reverse chronological order.
The website was down because it was being transferred to a newer, better server (cheers, Pete!), and it took a while for the DNS records to propagate. The whole thing is now hosted on CFMX and has a faster version of MySQL running behind it, so everything should be a lot snappier. There’ll probably be some bugs due to incompatibilities between CF5 (which the old server ran) and CFMX, and I’ll iron those out as I find them.
This was a rather busy weekend. A grandaunt of mine died, and in typically Irish fashion, our house was taken over for the weekend and Monday with family for duration of the wake and funeral. As you can imagine, the the computer was off.
The rest of the week, I was getting very familiar with the colour of my own bile: I had a nasty dose of stomach ‘flu. The less said about that the better. Suffice it to say that I’m prone to getting it occasionally, but this was one of the worst yet.
For those who use the ping proxy, sorry it’s not working: this server doesn’t run PHP (which the proxy requires to run), but now that the site’s on a server running CFMX, it’s possible for me to rewrite it in ColdFusion. Thanks for your patience.
And finally, my sister Niamh bought a shiny new Sony Ericsson V600i, and very, very nice it is too! Or at least it is once some of the Vodafone crap is scraped from its memory. One thing that annoyed me no end about it, and this is more something about Vodafone than the phone itself, is that the games supplied were demos rather that full games. FFS! I’d prefer not to have the stuff bundled at all rather than just have crippled versions of them.
1 On August 11, 2006 at 9:28, Michael Rea wrote:
What, no more Digital Crew?
2 On August 12, 2006 at 17:27, Keith wrote:
I haven’t worked for Digital Crew for a year, Mick!
3 On August 15, 2006 at 23:24, Revence 27 wrote:
>... grandaunt of mine ... Not the missionary!
You didn’t tell us U’d quit DC! By the way, your CSS doesn’t seem too relative. The pages become a pain on phone (as I am now, but with no CSS, to conserve mem).
4 On August 18, 2006 at 14:18, Keith wrote:
Do I have to tell everybody every intimate detail of my life? I’m not sure what you mean by “relative”: it’s fixed width, if that’s what you’re asking. What mobile browser are you using? The one on my phone works just fine with it.
Here’s a hack: turn off the stylesheet.
5 On August 18, 2006 at 14:18, Keith wrote:
And no, not the missionary. She’s on my mother’s side of the family, not my father’s.
6 On August 20, 2006 at 18:17, Revence 27 wrote:
Well, I wasn’t asking for CFML samples (when I thought they would enhance a post), because I thought DC wouldn’t be happy about it. That’s why it would have been good to know. But, again, it’s not all that necessary.
Nokia 3060 (I think -- I keep forgetting the dang numbers). No, you can’t turn off stylesheets with it. But, I only use it rarely. Still, should you be relative?
7 On August 22, 2006 at 13:48, Michael Rea wrote:
Keith I knew that you longer worked for DC, but I assumed that they would still provide the free Colfusion hosting.
I guess not!
8 On August 23, 2006 at 18:10, Keith wrote:
@Revence: I have do idea what you mean by “CFML samples”: care to clarify? And what do you mean by “relative”? Relative to what? The site’s fixed width, but making it variable width wouldn’t make it “relative” by any definition I know of.
I looked at the site on my phone, and it looks just fine. Most mobile phone browsers just ignore the screen stylesheet. Yours is obviously the exception. I’m thinking of redesigning the site anyway, so if I’ve time I might add an extra stylesheet specifically for the handheld media type. If your phone doesn’t pick that up, get one that doesn’t suck.![[smile]](/images/smilies/smile.gif)
@Mick: I still have my free hosting, but I’ve finally got Topper to move me over from DCWeb1 to DCWeb2, which is a much better server. The only downside is that DCWeb2 doesn’t run PHP, so I have to convert the bits of the site that used PHP (for things CF5 couldn’t do) over to ColdFusion.
9 On September 1, 2006 at 18:49, Revence 27 wrote:
I meant that I was to ask you for code, et cet’ra, but didn’t, because one of the stuff you said in your first bugless post was “... and, no, Dan, I won’t be giving out our ColdFusion ...”. It would have been good to know we are free at last. Or even Talideon, Inc. won’t let you do that? :-)
BTW, I stop stylesheets from loading by terminating the loading after the markup has loaded.
By “relative” I mean you use absolute units (cm, px, et cet’ra) instead of relative units (%, em) in some parts. A godd example of a site that works well everywhere is my old hack, http://talkuganda.com Yours would be a rocker, since it uses DIVs and not TABLEs, but the absolute mood kills much.
The phone is a Nokia 6030. Awfully good browser. Best, maybe. It tries its best to be like Firefox. even respects scripts, but not too many of the objects. I know that Image works, for example. Yahoo! has dynamics on their site by phone!
Redesigning ... I love that word and hate it just as much. :-) :-(
I hope you revolutionise the back-end, as well. Put comment counts, put ... oh, I saw the search!!! I love you! Also, please, let this baby respect line breaks ( ) and turn them into <br /> proper, so they may show up in markup. I have to use paragraphs to organise my stuff well.
10 On September 1, 2006 at 18:51, Revence 27 wrote:
And add a preview! It’s all easy if you overthrow rather than reform.