There and Back Again

My sister wrote a patch extending wpdb to support the other databases. Its a pretty self contained patch, even going so far as to rewrite queries with preg for sqllite and pgsql.

Hopefully it will get upsteam, the lack of mysqli support makes php5 wordpress hard.

I played around a bit more with my blog, adding in links to other sites and starting a blog roll. I also imported all my old photos into gallery (which i learned to hate more) so I don’t have a reason to keep the old website around.

So now http://JoshuaEichorn.com redirect to this blog, all the old links are still good i just moved the index page out and setup a redirect.

My gallery photos are linked on the links section on the right now, out of the old stuff that I imported, think the best are the photos from the Hoover Dam, and From a walk I took up to “A” Mountain after a Storm.

Oh and I somehow lost the images I had in the root of my blog photos directory, I think the only thing I ended up losing was a photo of any annoying keyboard so I guess i’ll manage.

Interesting sidenote, I looked through google images to see if i could find it there, but no luck, they had pretty much every other image, it must have been deleted awhile ago and I just didn’t notice it.

I’m presenting at AzPHP tomorrow at 7. I’ll be running an object oriented design workshop. Will be doing an Object Oriented Design Workshop walking through a small project (expense reporting) and covering design and implementation decisions.

I’ll have some notes and basic slides linked from here some time before the meeting tomorrow.

I updated to WordPress 1.5 today, my theme is killed since they now have a real theme system. Everything should be working correctly let me know if you hit any bad links etc.

So I want through and cleaned out the worst of my referrer spam today. Its just fixed this month, since webalizer doesn’t rebuild a page when stats change.

I just used the HideReferrer config option with some * rules to get rid of my mortage spammers. I need a better long term solution, I think for starters im going to create a php script that is prepended on all my webalizer files and rewrite the referrer section with the nofollow attribute.

The next step after that is too look for a new stats package. Anybody got any suggestions.

I’m at the Scale Linux conference in Los Angeles today. Its been ok, was expecting to meet more of our customers. My boss David is speaking next which should be ok.

Oh and my sister found a bunch of old photos I took and got a photo cd made. Does anyone know if gallery has a cli script for doing batch uploads.

Update: You can view David’s slides at his blog.