12:33 PM, May 9, 2005 
Playing Catch-up
First off, I am sorry for taking so long with the San Antonio pictures. They have been ready for ages, but I just didn't get around to making a page for them until today. Here they are.
May will probably be a more sedate month than normal, considering all I have to do, regarding work, is a hand-holder next Sunday. I have no trips planned, and just a bunch of projects for work to do in my spare time. I'll hit the ground running in June, though. I have a huge exercise for work, and then a wedding to attend in the Chicago area. It looks like this summer won't be quite as busy as in previous years, as I have no major trips planned, even for work, unless Oklahoma is major.
I am keeping myself occupied lately, working on a golf course website, a couple of projects for work, and learning perl with the hit book, Learning Perl. Days after receiving the book, for which I paid $35, I found this website. It lists the second edition of Learning Perl, so I like to tell myself that I have a superiour product with the book's third edition.
Anyway, the plan is to get enough of a grasp of perl to start using it as my primary scripting language, and rewrite this website with it. You will probably never notice anything, unless I break something, but I have heard that perl speeds many things dramatically, so maybe it could fix the slower parts of the page. The book is excellent, so far.
In other news, I'm on a kickball team! We play every Wednesday evening over at Mulkey Square Park, with a sensational view of both downtown and the female kickballers, who are almost all gorgeous.
7 comments
timmy_wasson spoiled the calm with:
Perl? Welcome to 1996, yo. PHP is the way to go for speedy websites. And it's easy enough that even I, a designer, can pick it up quick and easy.
Unfortunately, it's completely useless outside of a web-based environment.
Perl? Welcome to 1996, yo. PHP is the way to go for speedy websites. And it's easy enough that even I, a designer, can pick it up quick and easy.
Unfortunately, it's completely useless outside of a web-based environment.
8:18 PM, May 9, 2005
bahua replied:
I don't have much interest in PHP for that very reason: it's exclusively a web technology. At the moment, this site is running entirely on shell scripts, which I use for a lot more than just websites. My aim is to replace my other activities with perl, too.
Dude, what happened to junkmachine?
I don't have much interest in PHP for that very reason: it's exclusively a web technology. At the moment, this site is running entirely on shell scripts, which I use for a lot more than just websites. My aim is to replace my other activities with perl, too.
Dude, what happened to junkmachine?
8:53 PM, May 9, 2005
timmy commented:
I completely lost interest in the site. It was an annoying chore to maintain it, fend off hacking, moderate it, delete and edit user posts, and constantly answer the same questions over and over and over. So I found a buyer and sold it. The new owner wasn't quite as competant as me when it came to maintenance and hack prevention (and believe me, I have a lot to learn). He got it hardcore hacked.
I still have a lot of the content in a mySQL database, but I need to write some scripts to read it. I'm not even interested enough to do that. I kind of outgrew it, I guess.
I completely lost interest in the site. It was an annoying chore to maintain it, fend off hacking, moderate it, delete and edit user posts, and constantly answer the same questions over and over and over. So I found a buyer and sold it. The new owner wasn't quite as competant as me when it came to maintenance and hack prevention (and believe me, I have a lot to learn). He got it hardcore hacked.
I still have a lot of the content in a mySQL database, but I need to write some scripts to read it. I'm not even interested enough to do that. I kind of outgrew it, I guess.
9:03 PM, May 9, 2005
bahua offered:
What do you mean, "hack prevention?" Someone actually took over control of the site from that guy?
What do you mean, "hack prevention?" Someone actually took over control of the site from that guy?
8:25 AM, May 10, 2005
wasson brooked no delay in saying:
Yeah, the site was built on phpBB, which is open source PHP. People make a hobby of exploiting it. It was exploited and the new owner's password was changed. I reset it for him, warning him to change it to something hard to guess as soon as possible. He never did. Someone got into his account using the easy password and went nuts. That's the story.
Yeah, the site was built on phpBB, which is open source PHP. People make a hobby of exploiting it. It was exploited and the new owner's password was changed. I reset it for him, warning him to change it to something hard to guess as soon as possible. He never did. Someone got into his account using the easy password and went nuts. That's the story.
1:33 PM, May 10, 2005
bahua blurted:
What a boob. That's part of why I wrote everything on this site myself. The main reason was academic, though.
What a boob. That's part of why I wrote everything on this site myself. The main reason was academic, though.
4:36 PM, May 10, 2005
Rachel offered:
I am particularly fond of the very last of the creepy bastard shots. hilarious, I laughed for a minute.
I am particularly fond of the very last of the creepy bastard shots. hilarious, I laughed for a minute.
2:14 AM, May 11, 2005
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