PolarLava::Blog

Yesterday while working on something else, I found a stupid bug in my Beer page code.  You would think I would have discovered this sooner, but being I don't actually check on it that often.  This insidious little bugger was causing only half the entries to display.  I was initially puzzled by it, but it didn't take long to realize that this was being caused by a very poor architectural decision from many years ago.  It's actually an issue in the PolarBlog code that I am using to generate the data for the page.  When trying to pull all of the entries at once it eats up all of the database connections and dies.  Thus it will output all the data up to that point, and then spew errors to the log.  Being the blog still works and I don't intend on putting anymore work into that, I took a different approach that avoids the connection issue.

Being the page was getting large and cluttered I opted to also implement alphabetic separators for both the Beer and the Wine page that is 99% the same page, just with different data.  So fixed the issue and implemented a change I've been wanting to do anyway!  Net win.

So apparently I sadly missed posting about my 6th Blogversary last year as I didn't post in December of last year at all.  Anyhow, today marks my 7th year of spewing out this pointless, self-serving drivel.  More than ever, this year I posted largely to the Beer topic and a little less so to the PhotoBlog.  Recently I've been trying to post more to Brainwork topic to pump some life back into it.  Being it's been two years, I did make my way back to Twitter without completely abandoning my blog.  My posts here get posted there with a link to the full entry.  This seems to work and actually, it's largely replaced my comments section as a feedback mechanism.

This will likely be one of my last posts while still running this on PolarBlog.  I'm getting close to migrating away and I'm optimistic that I'll be off of it before the end of the year.

Seven years of blogging certainly isn't a record, but it's definitely a lot longer that a lot of people I know.  Anyhow, here's to another year.

Here's the obligatory links to previous blogveraries:

  
• 5th Blogversary
  
• 4th Blogversary
  
• 3rd Blogversary
  
• 2nd Blogversary
  
• A Year of Blogging

So a few months ago I added the Beer page.  This is a single-page index of the Beer! blog topic.

So in true programming laziness, I've now cloned it to make the new Wine page which is a single-page index of the Wine blog topic.

I've been doing a bit of housecleaning on the site over the past couple of days…

First off I finally updated my resume.  Not really looking for work, but generally it's a good idea to keep it up-to-date, right?

Another thing I've been going to do, but just hadn't found the time for was adding a Beer page.  This is basically a single-page index of the Beer! blog topic.  If nothing else, this helps me avoid creating duplicate entries…of which I did find one while working on it.  See, once again beer has helped to make things right!  ;)

Okay, this was resolved yesterday without any further incidents and things should be good to go.  Thus let me know if you find something odd happening.

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So you may have noticed that my site was down from late Monday through yesterday.  That was due to moving from one server to another (better) server by my hosting company.  It's all moved and appears to be faster —which is a good thing, but there's a couple of remaining issues.  At the moment my subdomains (myclient, polarblog, projects and sffl.polarlava.com) are not resolving although the configuration and data all appears to be there.  Also my photo gallery is not longer working and results in 500 server error when you go there.  Thus I have a support ticket open and currently am awaiting for a resolution of these issues.