Updating content

Site feed is temporary disabled to not confuse the subscribers.

* redirect configuration required

Plan for Drupal

Plan with what should be done for the site:

  1. Theme (@done, artisteer)
  2. Install WYSIWYG module for creating content (@done, wysiwyg + tinymce + patch + new content format)
  3. Install TLA (@done)
  4. Install google analytics (@done, google analytics)
  5. Redirect from alexatnet.com to www.alexatnet.com (@done, read Drupal's .htaccess)
  6. Cron jobs (@done, cron)
  7. Automatic backup (@done, backup and migrate, daily backups)
  8. bit.ly or some other short link for each node (@cancel)
  9. Module for sending notifications about new comments (@done, comment notify)
  10. Search friendly URLs (@done, Drupal's .htaccess and pathauto)
  11. Spam: Mollom and Spam modules (@done, spam and mollom)
  12. Enable comments (@done)
  13. OpenID Auth (@done)
  14. OpenID provider (@done, phpMyId)
  15. "Read more" is not necessary (@done, how to)
  16. Private messages to users (@done, privatemsg)
  17. Code highlighter: PHP, C#, XML, HTML, CSS (@done, syntaxhighlighter, #699968)
  18. Favicon (@done)
  19. Check why images are not cached (@done, a2enmod expires)
  20. Restore disabled feed when content is restored.

Some info here: http://drupal.org/node/696116

UPD: 2010-01-30 - Finally done :-) Started updating content...

Welcome, Dear Guest!

I'm moving my site from one hosting provider to another and deleting spam comments and outdated content, reviewing and updating important articles. You may do not not find the information you have searched for right now but I'm inviting you to come back later, when I complete the reviewing. In the meantime you can help me with finding a source and better translation of the following cite:

hieroglyphs

If you have a valuable idea
Drink tea.
If the idea remains after the tea
Perhaps it has some value.
However,
If you drink tea, but the idea remained,
Perhaps you simply have not learned how to drink tea.

Contribute better translation

Thank you,

Alex

PHP 5.3 garbage collector test

I've updated my "Optimize PHP memory usage: eliminate circular references" (link) and added tests of the PHP 5.3 garbage collector. In summary, it is good but you can do even better.

PHP 5.3 to MySQL connection error

While trying PHP 5.3 today my scripts could not connect to the mysql database. I was sure that everything is installed correctly, so I've searched for similar issues reported by the developers and found the following interesting bug report:

MySQL functions cannot be used with 5.3.x on Vista when using "localhost"

So after changing localhost in my connection strings to 127.0.0.1 PHP successfully connected to the MySQL server. Another workaround is to delete or comment "::1 localhost" record in the c:\windows\system32\drivers\etc\hosts file.

It seems that this problem hits almost all Vista and PHP 5.3 users (Google: Vista PHP 5.3 mysql localhost "127.0.0.1" hosts) but PHP team is not considering this problem as a bug. Definitely, it is excellent demonstration of the open source wold welcomeness to the new users :-)


I’m Alex Netkachov and I welcome you on my site, which is my technical playground and web log.

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