My hosting provider has changed something in their perl instalation which means that MT-Blacklist (the thing that protects this blog from comment and trackback spam) is broken and not doing its job properly. I’ve located a fix but need my hosting provider to help me apply it. Until they do I’ve disabled comments so that I don’t have too much crap to clear up once the problem is over. Sorry for any inconvenience.
As you may have noticed I’m having some hosting problems at present. The server that hosts www.lenholgate.com was hacked and it’s taking my hosting provider longer to fix than they expected…
Right now comments and trackbacks don’t work because of incorrect CGI settings on the webserver but even if that were fixed now there’s no database backing up the pages so things would just be broken in a different way.
This is quite nice, a whole list of finely targetted RSS feeds for Knowledge Base articles for various products.
Jacob Nielsen has a list of Top Ten Blog Design Mistakes. Number 5 is “Classic hits are buried” where he suggests that it is useful for readers if you list your most ‘important’ entries prominently as well as regularly back linking to earlier posts. This sounds like sensible stuff; until you have to work out what your classic entries are from the other 486 not so classic postings…
Anyway, I’ve had a go at starting a list of some entries that are either a) very popular or b) clearly define my views on software development.
“Desire to know why, and how, curiosity; such as is in no living creature but man: so that man is distinguished, not only by his reason, but also by this singular passion from other animals; in whom the appetite of food, and other pleasures of sense, by predominance, take away the care of knowing causes; which is a lust of the mind, that by a perseverance of delight in the continual and indefatigable generation of knowledge, exceedeth the short vehemence of any carnal pleasure.
I find it quite interesting to have so much information about my past available on the web. I often use my own blog like a database that I can search for past solutions to problems, or for locating some text on my feelings on a subject that I can drop into a report and tweak. When producing code reviews for clients it’s useful to be able to justify your view points (I have a lot of views that need justification ;) ) and, in the interests of reuse, having those views up here means that I can easily reuse them.
My ski trip is over and I’m back in the UK for a while so I expect my technical writing will resume real soon now.
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[Updated: 6th September - It seems “NFOFY JT” were possibly the victim of a vindictive ex employee and that they didn’t originate or approve of any of the recent comment spam in their name.] See comment on this entry from Jacob Jones.
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I’ve been really busy these last few weeks. Too much to do, too little time. This week is looking better, so hopefully I’ll find time to finish the next couple of installments of the Practical Testing story, post a few updates on some of the code I’ve been writing and repost a few more google grabbing reprints…
